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<blockquote data-quote="Hermetic Seal" data-source="post: 1451184" data-attributes="member: 10915">I know I&#039;m probably not representative of the norm, but I found Roosh in the late 2000s, through manosphere blogs and that sort of thing. It wasn&#039;t until much later that I even realized he had YT or paid much attention to what was going on there. Obviously deplatforming is a huge blow for growing an audience, but on the other hand... I&#039;m old enough to remember a time when anybody with any sort of &quot;following&quot; spread through word-of-mouth and was primarily blog-based, because back then Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube didn&#039;t even exist yet. It seems that perhaps, in order to move forward, we have to go back to the way things were done on a more primitive Internet. That is one reason why I think the persistence of this forum is important. Forums are considered by most to be a dead relic of an earlier Internet, but I&#039;ve always found the format led to better discussion and substance than anything that followed. Although you won&#039;t have an audience in the multi-millions, it&#039;s still possible to succeed with your own blog and forum, and the people who show up are going to be higher quality than those coming from modern social media platforms.What really surprises me is that Roosh hasn&#039;t been permabanned from Twitter yet. Especially considering it was his comments about the J___ws on Twitter that clearly led to the nuking of his YT channel a day or two later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hermetic Seal, post: 1451184, member: 10915"] I know I'm probably not representative of the norm, but I found Roosh in the late 2000s, through manosphere blogs and that sort of thing. It wasn't until much later that I even realized he had YT or paid much attention to what was going on there. Obviously deplatforming is a huge blow for growing an audience, but on the other hand... I'm old enough to remember a time when anybody with any sort of "following" spread through word-of-mouth and was primarily blog-based, because back then Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube didn't even exist yet. It seems that perhaps, in order to move forward, we have to go back to the way things were done on a more primitive Internet. That is one reason why I think the persistence of this forum is important. Forums are considered by most to be a dead relic of an earlier Internet, but I've always found the format led to better discussion and substance than anything that followed. Although you won't have an audience in the multi-millions, it's still possible to succeed with your own blog and forum, and the people who show up are going to be higher quality than those coming from modern social media platforms. What really surprises me is that Roosh hasn't been permabanned from Twitter yet. Especially considering it was his comments about the J___ws on Twitter that clearly led to the nuking of his YT channel a day or two later. [/QUOTE]

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