@thetimes: Do manosphere influencer like Andrew Tate actually believe their extreme content?⁠ ⁠ Watching Louis Theroux’s parade of lunkheaded manosphere influencers — all skintight suits, neolithic theories of gender relations and sub-Del Boy schemes to get rich — I felt a whisper of recognition.⁠ ⁠ Having spent the early part of my career obsessing over likes, retweets and page views, I know the insanity the preoccupation brings. Theroux’s influencers, some of whom broadcast for seven hours a day, live for the algorithm. They stand in the full roar of the hurricane of comments, likes and shares from which most of us would recoil | ✍️James Marriot, Times columnist ⁠ ⁠

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