In other words, if young men were easily able to find social support outside the manosphere, maybe they would be more critical about the information they come across in the manosphere.

I guess the question comes down to where to find that social support outside the manosphere? The article concludes that young men need to help mobilize their peers to leave these manosphere echo chambers and help point out how they're being scammed. Men need to help young men by creating these more positive spaces for them.

In the absence of action from the platforms, Barker says, it will be up to the users to recognize that the people selling them peptides, dating hacks, and get-rich-quick schemes are taking advantage of them—and leave the associated online communities or even mobilize others to do the same by calling out the harms they cause. Maybe a young male commentator who devotes themselves to exposing the toxic lies and scams of the grievance economy would become an influencer in their own right.

“I think it’s not gonna be a tomorrow thing, that we get a group of young men who are like, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna be the warrior for calling out injustice online,’” Barker says. “But I think it’s kind of where some of the action has got to come from.”