It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office Cover
Podcast Mentions

It Came from Something Awful How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office

Dale Beran

How 4chan and 8chan fuel white nationalism, inspire violence, and infect politics. The internet has transformed the ways we think and act, and by consequence, our politics. The most impactful recent political movements on the far left and right started with massive online collectives of teenagers....

Podcasts 1
Quotes 3
Behind the Bastards

It was mentioned as a book that helped structure Robert's thoughts about the manosphere and its origins, and it was described as a wonderful book in the context of discussing Hugh Hefner's approach to masculinity and capitalism.

"

This Hefnerian vision of manhood was still tied to economic achievement like the breadwinner vision of manhood. It encouraged conformity and merely changed the system of rewards.

— Episode: Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere

Episode: Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere

It was mentioned as a book that helped structure Robert's thoughts about the manosphere and its origins, and it was described as a wonderful book in the context of discussing Hugh Hefner's approach to masculinity and capitalism.

"

This Hefnerian vision of manhood was still tied to economic achievement like the breadwinner vision of manhood. It encouraged conformity and merely changed the system of rewards.

Episode: Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere

It was mentioned as a book that helped Robert organize some of his thoughts about the Manosphere and its origins in more order.

"

But like my research on 8chan and stuff, which is like what got me famous in the first place, was kind of proceeding from this. It's definitely I grew up on the Internet. I'll talk about that more later. It's been weird to watch this happen.

in his book, It Came From Something Awful, which is wonderful. David Baron notes, quote, This Hefnerian vision of manhood was still tied to economic achievement like the breadwinner vision of manhood. It encouraged conformity and merely changed the system of rewards.

Note: The book recommendations on this page are discovered automatically from podcast transcripts, and may be incorrect or incomplete.