Welcome to the new social media reality that researchers aptly call the "digital sludge dungeon" on Facebook. The biggest stars of Mark Zuckerberg’s original social network are now fake, AI-generated "podcast guys." They dish out cliché relationship advice that boils down to one core message: men are failing catastrophically at their duties and ruining women's lives, writes Future.
These clips are created using a technique called "clipping"—slicing together short, punchy highlights from popular shows. The catch? Neither the podcasts nor these bearded thinkers actually exist.
The videos invariably follow a formula. A fake guy sits in front of a studio microphone, pontificating for a minute or two in a mentor’s tone about what a "real man" should be and precisely where modern boyfriends are failing women.
The main arguments accuse men of being infantile, lazy, and unwilling to take responsibility, while women "carry everything on their shoulders." The delivery mimics pseudo-psychological infobusiness content à la Jay Shetty, spiced up with the rugged aesthetic of Joe Rogan guests.
"A woman who works 40 hours a week, pays her own bills, rent, and food, and handles everything entirely on her own simply cannot be the soft, high-maintenance girl you expect her to be," preaches a gray-haired hottie with pristine stubble on one such page into the camera. "And no, she cannot bring you peace when she’s living in survival mode every damn day."
The target audience for this content isn't men at all—it's women. In the comments section under viral clips, total consensus reigns: older female users mass-agree with the AI orators, captioning videos with phrases like "Never settle for less!" or "Listen up, men! We are NOT that complicated!"
The ultimate goal of these content creators is банальная monetization. Some are trying to boost pages for Facebook's native monetization program, others sell AI-generated e-books and text-messaging templates to a naive audience, while others simply drive traffic to eventually flip accounts to spammers.
The illusion has proven so convincing that even Google’s AI Overview feature occasionally glitches: the search engine mistakes fake speakers for real people, arguing fiercely to journalists that the main figure of The Male Insight page (a certain "Roman Black") is a genuinely real expert. No such person exists in nature.
Essentially, we are looking at a new, sinister variation of viral quote graphics from the past—only now featuring American flags, tight t-shirts, and manipulative musings on gender roles wrapped in the packaging of deep "wisdom." And if you suddenly catch yourself listening to a virtual alpha male's advice in your social media feed, remember the golden rule: a good man won't use you for views. Don't settle for less!
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