Profits of Rage – Why the Manosphere is a pyramid scheme

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The toxic stew of grievance, misogyny and self-pity known as the Manosphere isn’t just warping young men’s minds and legitimising contempt for women. It’s become big business for influencers like Andrew Tate, HSTikkyTokky and others. If disaffected young men pay enough into their “Universities” they can ascend to ever-higher levels with names like “the War Room”. There they learn that women and woke are to blame for all their problems, and they can learn how to master both… if they keep paying enough. Debbie Ging, Professor of Digital Media and Gender at Dublin City University, talks to Zoë Grünewald about the economics of the Manosphere and how the quest for fast cars and compliant women can become a ruinously expensive pursuit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written by Zoë Grünewald and Sophie Clark and presented by Zoe Grünewald. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio production: Tom Taylor. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.8	From rags to riches.
0:48.2	I'm so sick of this.
0:49.4	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:51.5	Yorkshire to New York.
0:53.1	Poor climbers, you and me.
0:54.8	A life dedicated to revenge.
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1:06.5	Welcome to The Bunker. News Without the Nonsense. I'm Zoe Grunewold.
1:14.6	Louis Theroux went inside the manosphere and what did he find? Well, the manosphere is more like a mano pyramid.
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