The Manosphere Just Had Its Worst Week Yet
The red-pill empire is cracking over therapy, war, and one badly timed TruthSocial post.
Week of June 9, 2025
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🚨 Testosterone levels are spiking, friendships are fracturing, and Trump just pissed off his biggest fanboys. In this week’s edition of The Manosphere: the Tates discover mental health (sort of), the Israel-Iran war blows up bro unity, Trump pulls an immigration U-turn, and alpha influencers scramble to monetize the next hustle. If you thought masculinity was in crisis, wait until you see the brand strategy.
🔥 Signal of the Week: The Tates Want to Talk About Mental Health. Sort of.
Just in time for Father’s Day, the kings of “hustle culture” are shifting gears — kind of. Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) reposted his brother Tristan Tate (@TateTheTalisman)’s message on X to his 10.7 million followers, sounding the alarm on men’s mental health with their signature nihilist bravado.
“Nobody gives a shit about men’s mental health, and they never will. Not women, not society, and least of all, the government.”
Tristan’s advice?
“Accept it and just take care of yourself and your friends. All we have is each other.”
The post was accompanied by a music video meme of him and four other men, including his brother, dancing in sync. This is peak Tate-core masculinity with a splash of tribal bonding.
It’s the Tates’ version of vulnerability: don’t ask for help, don’t expect help, trust only other men. The message: women and society will fail you. Brotherhood (and Bugattis) won’t.
But while the packaging is pure Top G, the topic is real. The suicide rate among men in the U.S. is four times higher than among women NIMH. Yet men are less likely to be diagnosed with mood disorders, often turning to substance abuse or isolation instead of seeking help.
Even Joe Rogan (@joerogan), the spiritual godfather of the manosphere, has evolved on this. In a 2023 podcast episode, he admitted:
“I used to have a much more ignorant view on mental health… just don’t be a pussy. Get your work done.”
But he now says that kind of thinking is dangerous. And he’s used his platform to explore alternatives: therapy, exercise, social media detox, and mental health guests like Jonathan Haidt and Abigail Shrier.
Our Take: It matters that the Tates are talking about this. But their solution — men for men, and only men — keeps their followers locked in a self-reinforcing bro loop. If the only help you can accept is from someone who’s also pretending not to need help, are you really breaking the stigma? Meanwhile, Rogan, as controversial as he is, acknowledges the need to go outside yourself. That tension between self-reliance and support, is where the modern male identity battle lives.
🧨 Bro Beefs: The Manosphere Is Imploding Over Israel vs. Iran
The June 12 airstrike by Israel on Iranian nuclear targets lit up the Middle East, and blew a crater right through the manosphere.
For years, the movement has been weirdly consistent: feminism bad, masculinity good, Western civilization under threat, Trump forever. But now, red-pillers, tradCons, and alpha influencers are tearing each other apart over a question they can’t meme their way out of: Whose side are we on?
👊 Team Israel
Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro), co-founder of The Daily Wire, went live immediately to explain why Israel was “100% right” to strike. He’s since filled his timeline with reposts showing support from Trump and U.S. allies, positioning Israel as the front line of Western defense.
Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) jumped in to dunk on Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson), who warned against warmongering:
“The real divide is between people who think that the way to achieve peace is to let Iran build nuclear weapons and people who aren’t retarded.”
Kisin’s full post.
Iranian-born influencer Patrick Bet-David (@@patrickbetdavid and @notPBD) called out Iran as the long-term destabilizer in the region. His June 14 clip was signal-boosted by billionaire Bill Ackman (@BillAckman,) no stranger to Twitter geopolitics.
🛑 Team “No More Wars”
On the flip side: Carlson, Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11), and Muslim manosphere heavyweights like Andrew Tate, Myron Gaines (@MyronGainesX), and Sneako (@sneako) are calling BS.
Carlson accused the Trump administration of being complicit in war escalation, and ominously warned:
“At some point, they will all have to answer for this.”
Carlson’s post
Kirk ran a Twitter poll: nearly 90% of 489,000+ respondents said the U.S. should not get involved.
“Trump voters, especially young people, supported him because he didn’t start new wars,” he reminded.
Follow-up post
Meanwhile, Andrew Tate claims he was offered money to support Israel — and turned it down.
Repost here.
Myron Gaines says flat-out: “Israel is a problem.”
Sneako adds: “Israel isn’t compatible with Western civilization.”
Our Take: This is no longer about culture wars. The Israel-Iran crisis has become a litmus test, not for values, but for allegiances. The once-synchronized manosphere is fracturing along lines of faith, race, nationalism, and grift. If war expands, expect the beefs to get uglier.
🚫 Trump’s “Amnesty” Move Has the Bros Screaming Betrayal
If there’s one thing the manosphere hates more than Meghan Markle, it’s immigration — especially undocumented labor. So imagine the meltdown when Trump, the supposed alpha of alphas, suspended ICE raids on farms and restaurants this week after pressure from industry donors.
Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) lost it.
“Employers who knowingly rely on illegal immigrant labor should be in prison… Hell no. We can’t tolerate this.”
Full post
He kept going, warning that Reagan’s 1986 amnesty “destroyed his legacy,” and Trump risks doing the same.
Our Take: Walsh and others overestimate their sway. Trump knows who feeds him votes: rural employers, not Twitter purists. He’ll throw the manosphere red meat next week, and they’ll fall back in line.
💥 Bro Meltdown of the Week
Goes to Richard Cooper (@Rich_Cooper) and Rollo Tomassi (@RationalMale). They reposted a meme mocking women for demanding equality in society while still wanting high-earning alpha males in relationships.
Tomassi added his classic line:
“A woman cannot look up to a man who is her equal.”
His post
Our Take: The manosphere always knows when to return to the hits. Feminism bad. Women want money. Be alpha. It works. Why change the playlist?
🗣️ Quote of the Week
“Conservatism is feminism for men,”
Rollo Tomassi, the Red Pill father, June 10, 2025.
Our Take: So what does that make liberal men: Women? Soy? Servants of the matriarchy? Rollo’s trolling hard here, but don’t miss the subtext: in the manosphere, even conservatism is too soft unless it comes with alpha branding and red-pilled rage.
💸 Platform Moves: The Business of Bro
Andrew Tate launches a $99/month AI course through “The Real World,” promising to teach young men how to build video games and escape the Matrix. Crypto, now AI, Top G is trend-chasing for the throne.
Sneako smoked cigars with NYC Mayor Eric Adams, posturing for mainstream clout after his Kanye West bromance. See it here
Rollo Tomassi is selling a new webinar called “Reignite Alpha.”
Our Take: Everyone’s monetizing. Everyone’s optimizing. Hustle harder, bros.
👀 What to Watch
- Will Sneako become the Kanye whisperer, or flame out trying?
- Will the Israel-Iran war blow the manosphere apart completely?
- Can Trump hold onto his far-right base while pivoting on immigration?
- Are we nearing a manosphere realignment, or just a bigger grift?
📬 Your Turn
Who should we track next? Who’s rising, flaming out, or flipping the script?
Click on the Respond bubble. Let’s build this together.
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