During an appearance on a Kick stream with N3on, rapper-turned-streamer Iggy Azalea shared her thoughts on the toxic wave of “manosphere” streams that brag about being “alpha males.”
“I don't know, guys. I think that the soy boys actually might be the red pillars,” she said, as seen in the clip below. “If you were really alpha, why would you need to even be thinking or getting advice on this subject, like, a wolf is just out there hunting. He doesn't need fucking all this advice about it. I don't know. It makes me think that secretly, that is beta. Is it not? I don't know.”
She suggested that the likes of Sneako, Andrew Tate, and Myron Gaines—who are all part of the anti-semitic, misogynistic manosphere bubble—are projecting an image that isn’t true to themselves. Many of the controversial influencers within the manosphere scene also sell courses and host podcasts that they claim will make their viewers stronger, more masculine men. She didn’t name any of them directly, but it’s hard not to draw a conclusion about who she’s referring to here.
“If I was fucking a guy and he was like, ‘I watch podcasts on how to be a man,’ I'd be like, ‘weak,’” she continued. “I'm not watching podcasts about how to be a fucking woman. … It's kind of a pussy move to be like, ‘I need life help!’ It's like, okay, pussy. That's not alpha in itself. You'd just be out there raw-dogging life if you were really alpha. … I don't have a huge opinion, but I do think if [you] were that alpha, wouldn't you be just blazing your own path? Why do you need to buy a course on how to live your life? I don't know.”
There’s something of a cottage industry of toxic male streamers and influencers who proclaim to be the ideal figure of masculinity, but they’ve come increasingly under criticism for their negative influence on young boys in recent years. Recently, legendary British journalist and broadcaster Louis Theroux highlighted the “red-pill” manosphere ecosystem with a Netflix documentary that got a lot of attention.
