Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/manosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manosphere</span></a></p><p>"In a video viewed over 2.8 million times, Mitch and Jack play a game. The rules are simple: They bring up a topic and then either respond affirmatively by saying 'That’s what’s up' or negatively, by saying 'What’s up with that' On the list of things that are given the stamp of 'That’s what’s up' approval: setting boundaries with your partner, backflips, and night-vision goggles. Using racial or homophobic slurs and kidney stones are dismissed with furrowed brows and 'What’s up with that?' In the comments of the TikTok video, viewers applaud the young men. 'This is unironically how we defeat the alt-right pipeline,' reads one comment. 'Positive masculinity,' says another.</p><p>The video was posted by the TikTok account @sexedforguys, which has over 117,000 followers and is run by four students at Colby College, a private liberal arts school in Maine. A scroll through the account, which was started in 2022, surfaces skits exploring topics like enthusiastic, sober consent, toxic masculinity, and homophobia. At a time when young men are being radicalized by anti-feminist, pro-misogynistic content, the account aims to surface something more equalizing on the For You Pages of young people. If it sounds preachy, it’s just because you haven’t watched their videos. The skits are loose and funny and acted out entirely by college students. In one, a boy makes fun of his friend for 'finishing in 10 seconds'; another friend steps in to say he shouldn’t be ashamed but he should make sure his partner finishes, too. 'Thanks, guys,' says the first guy. 'Now I know that it’s important that they also finish. Not just me. In 10 seconds.' </p><p>(. . .)</p><p>We’re now in a time when more and more young men are falling into the manosphere, a section of the internet that rejects feminism and embraces misogyny and unapologetic toxic masculinity. While it’s long been dominated by Andrew Tate, a content creator and far-right influencer who has been charged with rape and sex trafficking in Romania, and is under investigation in Florida (he’s denied all allegations), it’s recently been growing in the public consciousness thanks to its role in the election of Donald Trump. It was also the subject of the Netflix show Adolescence, which has sparked conversations about how to counteract its negative effects."</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250325155010/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-manosphere-sexedforguys-1235302892/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2025032515</span><span class="invisible">5010/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-manosphere-sexedforguys-1235302892/</span></a></p>