The Game: A Journalist's Guide to Pickup Artistry

A sizable chunk of my generation was raised in forums like something awful and later for Chan. These communities, the men in these communities often rarely talk to women or anyone at all. And I think also maybe part of the reason I didn't get as much into it is that by kind of 2004 or five, the split between 4chan and something awful made for something awful a little healthier. It was definitely a healthier place to be a young man than fucking 4chan.