Misogynistic “manosphere” influencers including Andrew Tate, Sneako, and Jon Zherka are promoting violence against women and finding virality on TikTok via fan accounts posting their content. Some of these figures, including Sneako and Zherka, have over 100 fan accounts dedicated to sharing their toxic content, making it difficult for the platform to moderate and track the hateful rhetoric that these figures push. While manosphere influencers themselves are not posting their content to TikTok, their large fan bases are flooding the platform with these influencers’ misogynistic and toxic content. This method using swaths of devotees to overrun a platform with a particular figure’s content is not new and has been used by fans of white nationalist and conspiracy theorist figures on TikTok to promote fringe and extremist content. TikTok has not successfully counteracted the massive fan account uploads that violate its Community Guidelines. These influencers are part of the mano
Content warning: This article contains images and descriptions of violence. “Manosphere” personalities including Andrew Tate, Sneako, and Jon Zherka are promoting abuse and extreme violence against women online. These influencers have defended beating women, mocked abuse survivors, and called for the acceptance of abuse against women similar to customs in Saudi Arabia. These figures are part of the manosphere, an online community of right-wing websites, bloggers, and influencers cultivating a worldview based on a conservative and regressive gender politics repackaged for the internet age. The group often pushes extremism and antisemitism while blaming women for myriad societal woes and treating them as an inferior sex. Some of these figures use other topics that interest young men like weightlifting, video games, and boxing to draw in viewers before diving into extremist content and misogyny, creating a dangerous pipeline. Reporting shows how easily toxic rhetoric
Twitch streamer Jon Zherka criticizes Instagram star and fitness influencer Sara Saffari s interactions with influencers and makes derogatory comments about her