Three videos, three very different messages about masculinity and health. New research shows this is how the manosphere finds young men.

Plenty of exploitation also happening of young men which has wide-ranging effects. This community seems to be mostly male (I’m guessing). Any opinions?

  • RegularJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    The manosphere doesn’t create these pressures – it finds genuine unmet needs and exploits them for profit and views. Often girls, women and other minority groups are at the receiving end of that harm, as well as the boys and men themselves.

    Before TikTok/Internet, there was TV. Before TV was print media (newspapers, magazines).

    Ad from 1932

    Charles Atlas ad saying let me prove in 7 days that I can make you a new man!

    This has been going on (for everyone) a lot longer than TikTok. That said, I don’t think it’s healthy. Also with print media, you saw it once or twice in a magazine; you didn’t have an algorithm feeding you a stream of content either.

    Edit: female ad, same era:

    I learned from a beauty expert how to hold my husband - and why so many women fail. Palmolive.

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      Even the Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975 parodied the fitness ads “in just seven days, I can make you a man”