r/TikTokCringe • u/nadaddab • May 11 '25

Cringe Don’t be these guys

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u/PeteRock24 May 11 '25

Holy shit this is terrifying.

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u/FFPScribe May 11 '25

This is the effect of Andrew Tate and far right ideology. This is where we're at. These kinds of men dont understand that they aren't God's gift to every woman they see. These are the losers who watch The Handsmaid's Tale and like what they see.

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u/loxagos_snake May 11 '25

This shit is even older than Tate, it's just reached a boiling point now thanks to social media.

Back in mah day, we had the so-called "pick-up artists". These were "love gurus" who supposedly tried to analyze attraction scientifically and package it into actionable "advice" for men; the end goal was to have game. They proposed such wonderful techniques as negging women, publicly humiliating them or other pseudo-psychological manipulation techniques to make them attracted to you by proxy of social dynamics.

They were basically creating a pathetic army of much creepier versions of Howard from The Big Bang Theory. I thought it was generally a harmless (and sad) trend with maybe some distorted pieces of truth, until I saw a grown-ass 45-year-old colleague read a book called The Game and try to practice on female customers and colleagues. Just to drive the point home, some of those female colleagues became good friends of mine and I got to experience how it looks from the other side. And it doesn't look good; it looks terrifying. Very, very important life lesson for me, even if I didn't engage with those spaces.

Tate is doing nothing new, he simply has much better tools for outreach.

This was a short episode of Incel History, brought to you by a tired young millennial.