Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere

The film’s most powerful moments instead come from seeing the impact on the vulnerable, gullible young men who form the manosphere’s main audience. Theroux meets a couple of Waller’s acolytes and tries to understand the appeal it holds. Their answers are quietly heartbreaking: one young man, whose brother died by suicide, parrots the messaging he has heard from these influencers, claiming there is no such thing as depression. “We’re not meant to be happy,” he claims. “As men, we’re meant to suffer.” The men are not okay.