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Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere

Behind the Bastards

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The Toxicity of Global Capitalism

A lot of what happened to the Otaku obviously sounds familiar to what we've seen for Chan and Reddit do to large chunks of a whole generation. One major difference would be that to the best of my knowledge most analyses of Otaku culture tend to focus on isolation rather than violent rage. And it's all you know all of this everything we're talking about today is a reaction to capitalism, he says.

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