Zac Seidler

And what it says to them is all of the other guys your age are watching this stuff too.

This is the norm.

This entire ecosystem is directly at odds with its goals, which is you're not going to get ripped, rich or a girl sitting on your phone.

I didn't think that I would be referring back to The Matrix over and over again, but it comes from that seminal movie with Neo, Keanu Reeves.

what the Matrix did, there's this idea that there's a red pill and a blue pill and you get a choice and you're going to take one of these pills and the red pill wakes you up to the realities of the world and the fact that for men and boys, the world is against you and we live in a feminized environment and once you take the red pill, you will realize that we are benefiting and bolstering the lives of women and girls and we are fundamentally benefiting

hurting you.

We are taking things away from you.

We are disempowering you.

And so it leads so quickly to grievance because what it's saying is this isn't a notion of equality.

This is fundamentally about the fact that you cannot...

gain status and succeed if women and girls are as well.

And then it expands to marginalized groups, to trans groups, to an understanding of race and ethnicity.

It's a very quick way to go.

You are being taken for a ride.

You need to wake up to the fact that

this world is against you.

And this is what many of these influencers do.

They talk about it's conspiracy theories, fundamentally.

The fact that everyone is out to get you and you need to understand with your tinfoil hat on who those people are and how we're going to take back power.

Oh, definitely.