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Plenty of exploitation also happening of young men which has wide-ranging effects. This community seems to be mostly male (I'm guessing). Any opinions?

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[–] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The manosphere doesn’t create these pressures – it finds genuine unmet needs and exploits them for profit and views. Often girls, women and other minority groups are at the receiving end of that harm, as well as the boys and men themselves.

Before TikTok/Internet, there was TV. Before TV was print media (newspapers, magazines).

Ad from 1932

Charles Atlas ad saying let me prove in 7 days that I can make you a new man!

This has been going on (for everyone) a lot longer than TikTok. That said, I don't think it's healthy. Also with print media, you saw it once or twice in a magazine; you didn't have an algorithm feeding you a stream of content either.

Edit: female ad, same era:

I learned from a beauty expert how to hold my husband - and why so many women fail. Palmolive.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Even the Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975 parodied the fitness ads "in just seven days, I can make you a man"