Oli London: How TikTok Fueled My Gender Confusion

American Thought Leaders

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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“Bad behavior is rewarded by TikTok. You're given an incentive to behave like that … So when we see influencers acting crazy, and then people sharing their transition journey, it gets more and more extreme, to the point where you have someone like Dylan Mulvaney saying that he wants to become pregnant.”

Social media influencer Oli London became known for undergoing many surgeries in his quest to look like a Korean man and then, during the pandemic, a Korean woman. He was one of the first influencers to join TikTok, and he says the social media platform fueled his gender confusion.

Now he’s sharing his story in his new memoir “Gender Madness: One Man's Devastating Struggle with Woke Ideology and His Battle to Protect Children.”

“So many kids look up to influencers more than they look up to teachers or doctors. They respect them more. So if an influencer says something—and it could be very harmful—teens will just follow it blindly, like a cult, almost like a religion. So I feel like I had a responsibility, and I woke up,” Mr. London says.

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0:00.0	All the roads seemed to suggest that there was trans, all the videos I saw was like trans
0:04.0	this, trans that.
0:05.0	And then the more feminine I looked, the more makeup I'd wear.
0:08.2	People were complimenting me.
0:09.7	Social media influencer Ali Landon became known for undergoing many surgeries in his
0:14.4	quest to look like a Korean man.
0:16.8	And later during the pandemic, a Korean woman.
0:19.4	He was among the first influencers to join TikTok.
0:22.4	Bad behavior is rewarded by TikTok.
0:24.4	It gets more and more extreme to the point where you have someone like Dylan Albany saying
0:28.2	that he wants to become pregnant.
0:29.9	Now he is sharing his story in his new memoir titled Gender Madness, when man's devastating
0:35.2	struggle with woke ideology and is battle to protect children.
0:39.0	I feel like I had a responsibility and I woke up and I was like, you know what, even though
0:43.2	TikTok is rewarding me, I'm getting so many brand deals and incentives, I need to stop
0:47.7	this because it's not healthy.
0:49.4	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kelly.
0:54.6	Ali Landon, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
0:57.8	It's such a pleasure to be here in Washington, D.C., thank you for having me.
1:02.0	There's one chapter in the book that really caught my attention.
1:05.5	In a way, I want to kind of focus on it a little bit because it's an area I've been interested
1:09.8	in a lot and kind of a bit of a different sphere, that's TikTok.
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