People are being assured over and over again that women are the problem.

There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

Last week, Apple and Google Play both took down Andrew Tate's app, The Real World, formerly Hustlers University.

Andrew Tate has been grifting a generation of young men and boys into making him rich by stoking their anxieties, anger, and fears.

His content is dangerous, but it's not just Tate.

An entire ecosystem of extremist content creators in what's commonly known as the Manosphere

are gamifying the internet to line their pockets and putting all of us at risk in the process.

So the Manosphere is this umbrella term that a lot of different misogynistic activists,

commentators kind of fall under, so whether that be someone like a men's rights activist,

a pickup artist, a blogger, a podcaster, pretty much anyone whose main deal is misogyny

that falls under the manosphere.

Justin Horowitz has been researching viral extremist influencers with media matters since 2020.

So a lot of this content really seems to prey on the fears in vulnerabilities of young men.

Like, you're not working out as hard as all the other men around you, or you're never going to get a date, or you spend a lot of time alone at home instead of being out.

Why is that?

I think that that is a great gateway to get to talk about misogyny and hate and to push extremism.

So something like fitness content or something like whether that be gambling or even gaming,

some of these Manosphere influencers are involved in.

It is just a way to get people to log on, to subscribe to their content,

so that they can push further extremism and further misogyny down the road.

And kind of going off what you just said, a lot of these Manosphere influencers do talk about

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