Inside the Manosphere explores what could be termed The New Sexism, a social ill bred on YouTube, live streams and dodgy apps, where men instruct other men how to be better. Better, in this case, meaning becoming a dead-eyed misogynist with degenerative opinions about gender, money and sex, a fleet of supercars, and ideally two or three women on retainer to humiliate and subjugate when the impulse strikes. \u201cI coach boys how to be f***ing boys,\u201d explains Harrison Sullivan, a 24-year-old ghoul known online as HSTikkyTokky<\/a>. \u201cHow to make money. How to be outside the system. How to not have a boss telling you what to do. I teach guys how to be proper guys, not these soy boy gimps who walk around in the modern day.\u201d<\/p>\n This is the \u201cmanosphere\u201d<\/a>, notoriously exemplified by the influencer Andrew Tate<\/a> but now perpetuated by a human centipede of imitators across the world<\/a>. Theroux meets a handful of them, from the American streamers Myron Gaines and Sneako, to the British internet personality Ed Matthews. Matthews best illustrates the jack-of-all-trades, master-of-scum approach to digital infamy: his videos run the gamut of fitness tips, conspiracy theories, on-the-street sex chat, and live-streamed predator stings, like a greatest hits collection of everything awful.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Louis Theroux with the American \u2018success coach\u2019 Justin Waller in \u2018Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere\u2019 (Netflix)<\/p>\n Sitting in on streams and lurking around Marbella gyms, Theroux struggles to get a handle on the people he orbits. He leans heavily on the idea of their hypocrisy, to ill effect. Isn\u2019t it contradictory for Sullivan to simultaneously work alongside and monetise a fleet of OnlyFans models while endlessly disparaging what they do for a living? Isn\u2019t it unfair for him to host the infamous porn performer Bonnie Blue on one of his streams only to call her a whore? Sullivan shrugs. \u201cI did it for clout,\u201d he explains. \u201cFor views.\u201d Which, he gloats, worked like gangbusters.<\/p>\n Theroux seems unprepared to enter this kind of moral cesspool, in which every party \u2013 man or woman, rich or poor, pimp or porn star \u2013 positions personal financial gain above all else. His interaction with a so-called \u201csexy plasterer\u201d named Ellie Nutts, an OnlyFans model and one of Sullivan\u2019s female hangers-on, goes nowhere. \u201cI don\u2019t care about other people\u2019s opinions about what I\u2019m doing for myself,\u201d she tells him. \u201cI\u2019m comfortable in my decisions.\u201d Sullivan boasts that he can\u2019t possibly be homophobic or antisemitic because he has gays and Jews on his payroll, one of whom hovers in the corner of the room with a smile on his face. Troupes of women gleefully submit themselves to debasement on Gaines\u2019s streams, presumably because it\u2019s a means to promote their OnlyFans pages or social media accounts. The virulent sexism, antisemitism and pseudo-science we witness is appalling, but also meaningless in a world that prioritises pure attention over anything. Everyone is here, everyone is paying, and no one cares.<\/p>\n There are occasional depictions of collateral damage. Gaines\u2019s girlfriend Angie is a sad spectacle to behold, a woman clearly uncomfortable with the idea of her partner plotting to have multiple wives in the long-term. (Satisfyingly, she ends up leaving him, but this occurs once the cameras have stopped rolling.) Theroux also meets two desperate devotees of the manosphere, both of whom worship at the altar of a cigar-smoking \u201csuccess coach\u201d and believe that they will ultimately be rewarded for toiling through a life of homelessness, misery and depression (though depression, one insists, doesn\u2019t actually exist).<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Theroux meets the influencer HSTikkyTokky during \u2018Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere\u2019 (Netflix)<\/p>\n But fundamentally there is no use to any of this. Theroux prods and points at these manosphere A-listers and the worlds they occupy, while vainly intellectualising them (\u201cis it all to do with absentee fathers?\u201d he asks). Meanwhile, he falls prey to individuals eager to capitalise on his presence to boost their own profiles. Sullivan is paranoid about Theroux\u2019s intentions, but welcomes him back for more interactions because his celebrity has caused a spike in his video views. Theroux, and by proxy this very documentary, will make Sullivan a household name, which will further inflame the reach of the manosphere entirely. Theroux meets Sullivan\u2019s mother, who disagrees with many of her son\u2019s proclamations but seems to care far more about how he is depicted on TV. \u201cIf you don\u2019t agree with what Harrison\u2019s doing, then why are you making money off it on a programme by publicising it?\u201d she asks him. It\u2019s a frustratingly valid question, to which Theroux has no answer.<\/p>\n Inside the Manosphere may have set out to expose this particular sub-culture as one full of beasts and charlatans, all of whom are exploiting a lost generation of men with little in the way of material hope. But didn\u2019t we know that already? Ultimately this is an expensive Netflix documentary that\u2019s provided maximum exposure to individuals who consider any kind of attention a win. It leaves a bitter, nasty taste in the mouth.<\/p>\n At documentary\u2019s end, Theroux laments Sullivan\u2019s crossover into the mainstream, remarking that he is \u201criding high\u201d as \u201cmainstream papers and TV shows\u201d have finally taken notice of him. \u201cI\u2019m playing the game of life,\u201d Sullivan tells Theroux at one point. \u201cI\u2019m playing it very well.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere\u2019 is streaming on Netflix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Louis](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/V_040085.jpeg\")
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