Ryan Broderick

like i don't but when you're like is it again like we're all 12 like 12 like is it the idea that a 12 year old boy would be like be like yeah i think that's right there's some data to back that up too in 2024 tradwife searches were up 72 on pornhub i think there's like a couple dimensions to this like i think

I think it's particularly easy for like Zoom school Gen Z kids to fantasize about a life that they do not live because they don't really live one.

TikTok is a portal to like different kinds of identities and lifestyles that they can try on.

And like very early on in sort of the Gen Z story, there was a lot of like identity play and aesthetic play and sort of like understanding the world through what they're seeing online.

I think trad wives fit in perfectly there because you can just sort of imagine this thing that is not real.

I think that there is a lot of millennial trad wives that are doing it to make money or because they have like hardcore right-wing political beliefs, not to excuse the Gen Z kids, but I think it's a lot more sort of cynical at that age, our age.

And I also just think that I don't see this as, I think it's twofold.

Like, yes, it is something that is being performed for a male audience to a degree, but

I think that's newer.

I think it originally started as a way for women to recruit women.

And it has now kind of pivoted.

And in fact, we did an episode about the Manosphere with Siri Dahl a couple weeks ago.

And she had this great take where it's like, the Manosphere used to be something that was totally...

like focused on helping men meet women yeah pick up and now it is totally focused on helping men perform for other men yeah so it's like both of these kind of sides of the coin have devolved over time into being just like some combination of porn and wrestling and qvc and i will add i think for millennial women who have fallen into this um who have fallen in into this rabbit hole

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