Robert

His father is very successful, and Elliot grows obsessed with the trappings of wealth and fame.

On his videos, he'll always point out his nice watch, his nice clothes.

He's driving a nice new car because he thinks that

having these things are all you need.

If you're wearing nice clothes and you have a nice car and you look like you have money, women should just come up to you and tell you they wanna be with you, right?

That's how it's supposed to work.

And he doesn't put any more work to it than that.

Like he dresses up and he'll show up at like bars and clubs and parties and stuff, and he'll just stand in a corner and not talk to anybody.

And he feels like something is wrong because based on his understanding of the world, all he should need to do is be rich and good looking.

And the fact that that isn't enough is what starts him spiraling.

Right.

Can I just interject here on this?

It's so like so much of this.

I know I just keep being like sexism.

Like, obviously, yes, they're incels.

But so much of this is like just putting the burden on women.

Like you want women to come up to you.

You want women to immediately like you.

You want women to do X, Y, and Z. Like when people are like the male loneliness epidemic is like when people talk to me about it, I'm like, what are you doing to connect with the men in your life?

I mean, we have a lot of young male volunteers and I don't think it's because they're