Luc Olinga

Founder of The Manosphere. Boston Globe contributor. Covering masculinity, AI, culture & power. Cameroon → Paris → New York. Ex-AFP, Gizmodo, TheStreet.

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💥 The Manosphere is the new gold rush
We ranked @Cobratate , @jordanbpeterson , @pearlythingz Davis & more by how much they really earn.
Spoiler: They’re not just selling advice—they’re selling identity.

👇 Full breakdown, brand by brand:
https://t.co/1TD50t2Am1

#TheManosphere #RedPill #AndrewTate #JordanPeterson

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The school built to outsmart Andrew Tate #shorts https://t.co/GC5yLG2G1w via @YouTube

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I just published Inside the School Trying to Reach Boys Before Andrew Tate Does https://t.co/MmrfQkNSa1

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I went to Texas to find who's fighting the Manosphere https://t.co/H6GUXurGW5 via @YouTube

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My Son Found the Manosphere. In Houston, I Found a Harder Answer https://t.co/xrUI4EtguE

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The Manosphere Is Winning Young Men. I Went to Texas to Find Who's Fighting Back https://t.co/bZF4ia7vkN

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My Son Is 21 Now. He Still Believes It https://t.co/z5ehNRWmbP via @YouTube

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Why the Manosphere Still Has Power https://t.co/X24sIEAavJ

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It is time to retire “toxic masculinity.” Not because harmful male behavior does not exist. It does. But because too many boys hear the phrase as an accusation against who they are. And once boys shut down, the manosphere walks in. Episode 3.

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L'épouvantail des "techno-fascistes" a bon dos. Il permet à nos politiciens d'ignorer le peuple et d'accuser les algorithmes de la montée des extrêmes.

La réalité, c'est que la Silicon Valley est un champ de bataille, pas un complot.

Pour comprendre les vrais rapports de force derrière l'IA et son impact sur notre société, je lance ma nouvelle série vidéo.

Épisode 1. 👇

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Five years ago, my 16-year-old son told me that being a man today felt like being "born accused."

Today, he is 21. And he is more convinced than ever.

The #manosphere didn’t invent this crisis. It just monetized our refusal to listen.

Episode 2.

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The #manosphere is not the whole problem.
The real problem is that too many #young men feel like they are growing up in a culture that already suspects them.
In 2021, my son told me exactly that.
Why the #Manosphere Still Has Power, Episode 1.

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@MSNOWNews The Day ‘Antisemitic’ Stopped Being an Insult https://t.co/OqmTXCUdbX

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@Clavicular0 The 20-Year-Old Who Hacked the Manosphere https://t.co/5IVtfNTHHJ

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"We feel like we're paying for the sins of our fathers. And that even if we do everything right, we might still lose."

That's my son. 21 years old. That's also why the Theroux documentary missed.

My piece today in @GlobeOpinion

https://t.co/WXHbJmmHO6

@louistheroux @sneako @RationalMale @Cobratate @MyronGainesX @JwaIler7

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I just published The Virgin Who Married a ‘Promiscuous’ Woman. And Shamed the Entire Manosphere @cobratate @RationalMale @TateTheTalisman https://t.co/kLqG7cVC9D

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@travisk

I’m a senior reporter at Morning Brew. We’re launching a new editorial vertical called Founder Brew focused on the realities of building companies, especially the "messy middle" that rarely gets talked about publicly.

I read your new vision statement on the Atoms website. Your line—“I bled, but I did not perish. I got back up and fought my way back into the arena”—captures exactly the kind of pivotal moment we’re trying to document.

I’d love to write a “as-told-to” piece about that specific period: the moment after Uber when you had to decide whether to walk away or build again, and how it eventually led to Atoms.

Rather than a traditional interview, the piece runs entirely in your voice, first-person, covering:
• The moment you realized you wanted to build again
• What that period in the shadows actually felt like
• How those experiences shaped Atoms today

The format is simple: a 30-40-minute conversation that I turn into a narrative story where you speak directly to other founders and builders.

If you’d be open to it, I’d love to make it happen.

Best,
Luc

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@Cobratate @RationalMale The Country That Pays Women to Stay Single

In Greece, unmarried daughters still collect their fathers’ pensions.

Before 2010, it was for life as long as they never married.

It was patriarchy on payroll: the state replacing the father as provider.

Long before #TradWife influencers romanticized submission, Greece made it law.

Patriarchy was subsidized.

And when it got too expensive to fund, it went online.

Greece Had a State-Sponsored Tradwife Program

#Manosphere #GenderPolitics #Tradwife #Patriarchy #Greece #Culture #Masculinity #Feminism

https://t.co/pg0oREEvxE

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@PatWils59443197 Pat, thank you for your kind words. I’m using Comet and Atlas. Let me know what you think of them

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We Don’t Make Men Anymore
Not in schools. Not in politics. Not even in families.
From #MeToo to #AI, the old scripts of manhood have collapsed, and no one’s teaching boys what should replace them.
I see it in my own son. I hear it in my reporting.
And if we keep pretending this isn’t a crisis, someone else — @Cobratate Tate, a Jordan Peterson, @joerogan — will step in to write the next version of manhood for us.
👇 Here’s what I found after years of reporting on men, masculinity, and the future we’re building:
https://t.co/knu6mZnlwy

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AOC, Kamala, and the Democrats Are Losing Gen Z Men https://t.co/UhFIQRwX70