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Robert

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Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

And everyone guessed like the 90s, basically.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Can I guess?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Yeah, yeah, yeah, please.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Chicago World Fair.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Okay, you went back too far.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

It just feels like it'd be a thing there, you know, where it's like, everyone come here, I'll show you how to get a woman.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Yeah, yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Introducing the concept of women.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Exactly.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

The Chicago World's Fair next to the light booth.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Pickup artistry does predate the internet, though.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

You're not that far off is the crazy thing.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

The official birth of pickup artistry as a concept was the book How to Pick Up Girls by Eric Weber, published in 1968.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

So this actually does go back.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

That's pretty far off.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

You did the best.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

You did the best.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

I'll say that.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

You're the best at this.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

So today that book is so obscure that Wikipedia, if you look that title up, they just have a full page for the movie inspired by the book that came out in 1978 and starred Desi Arness.