Comment by cjs_ac

1 day ago

I think a big part of why influencers like Andrew Tate can speak unchallenged on social media is that anyone with the life experience, wisdom and social-media-savvy needed to be a better online role model for young men knows perfectly well that, due to the dynamics of such discourses, becoming that online role model will utterly destroy their life.

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JKCalhoun  1 day ago

Too bad then that anyone should look to an online influencer as a role model.

  • 9x39  1 day ago

    We should not be surprised to see what pops up to fill a vacuum of positive in-person influence.

    Having their own firmer identity, adults may tut-tut at a new personality emerging they disagree with, but few of us ask why such personalities are finding root at all.

    • JKCalhoun  1 day ago

      To be sure. I grew up with an absent father, so I get that. Perhaps dad spends too much time online too now?

      (Whoops.)