The Decline of Youth Culture and the Rise of Inceldom

Although a lot of recent evidence suggests that the last decade - 2009-2019 - saw a massive increase in the number of male incels, I have long wondered if this is an entirely new development. There are two possible perspectives on this vexed question:

1. The decline of mainstream mass youth culture has facilitated the incel explosion; the Internet has replaced it with a Tinder culture which promotes inceldom among sub-8 men.
2. The mainstream mass youth culture originating in the mid-twentieth century served to mask inceldom under a veil of Sexual False Consciousness; the Internet has merely exposed something which has existed for many decades.

I do not pretend to offer any definitive answers to this question, just throw a few factors into the debate which most observers have overlooked. The first of these is the decline of post-war 'tribal' youth culture in the Anglosphere West, which ceased to exist in about 2008 due to the emergence of new social media technologies.

Back in the 70s, 80s and 90s there was a common western youth culture than transcended gender differences. This culture was incredibly powerful and pervaded society to an extent that modern Millennials or Zoomers can barely appreciate. Watching the movie Bohemian Rhapsody with its vast, adoring Live Aid crowds lays this out plainly. Maybe the existence of a cross-gender tribal youth culture simply did make people more liberated in those days. It surely eased the pressure of Anglo-American homosociality (puritanical gender segregation) somewhat. It also provided cross-gender social networks, venues and events (dances, concerts, hangouts) which were subsequently dynamited by Tinder and other social media based solely on appearance (which have systematically reduced low value males to sexless shadows).

Post-War youth culture produced a range of  ready-made 'tribes' which anyone could enter for the price of a few records and a haircut. In short, post-war youth culture and the various tribes within it sidestepped issues like looks, height and even ethnicity which so hamper modern youngcels. Youth subcultures cut across the 'grain' of these innate, VantaBlack Pill factors, diminishing their impact; while in our present Tinder Age, factors like looks and height have become absolutely pivotal to male mating success. It also explains why males are bearing the brunt of modern inceldom; they are now being judged solely on looks despite having innately lower sexual market value than equivalent females. The decline of white culture as the media's default setting probably played a part in this. Ethnic youth culture is simple hedonism which favours physical factors above all others; the arty white intellectualism of 80s New Wave or 60s psychedelia was far more complex and textured, permitting abstract factors like intelligence to play some role in sexual attraction.

Of course, the alternative view is that there never was a Golden Age of sexual freedom in the Anglosphere West. Even at the time, Michael Medved's Hollywood Versus America (1993) or Tony Tyler's I hate Rock and Roll (1984) suggested that young people were not having copious quantities of sex (although their assumption that this was a 'conservative' matter of choice would not impress many modern observers). In this view, the decline of Western youth culture weakened Sexual False Consciousness to reveal the mass inceldom that was always there. In other words, young men are now simply free to ADMIT to being sexually disenfranchised in a way they never were before.

So did this elaborate post-War youth culture merely mask widespread sexual disenfranchisement under a wave of Sexual False Consciousness? After all, the idea that 'everyone' under 30 was banging models every night went completely unchallenged from the early 1960s to the late 1990s: it was taken as 'given' that all males were enjoying copious quantities of free sex with nymphomaniac females. Absolutely no questioning of this assumed fact was permitted in the mainstream media of the day (not that it is now, of course), especially the media dedicated to youth culture. Because of this, researchers in those days were not really looking for evidence of widespread sexual disenfranchisement; academics bought into the omnipotent  'Sex for All' narrative just as readily as the mainstream population.

The truth probably lies somewhere between the two perspectives.  Most research suggests that Boomers and Gen X were indeed marginally more liberated than younger Millennials or Zoomers, and it is fairly obvious that the tribal youth cultures of those times played a role in this. At the same time, sexual disenfranchisement was both reduced and suppressed by this omnipotent post-war youth culture. Since I am writing for ethnic youngcels trapped in the Anglosphere as much as white oldcels and dissidents who plan to leave it, providing some illumination on the broader context of pan-Anglosphere inceldom will be useful for anyone trying to frame their situation in a broader cultural context.

I have come to believe that 2008 was a kind of cultural watershed, the last year of the Western post-War media monoculture. That year was defined by global movie blockbusters such as the Dark Knight Returns and still bore the stamp of the twentieth century, in every sense. Politics in the Anglosphere was still relatively stable and sub-8 men under 30 could still expect a heterosexual relationship. The rise of social media both terminated  this cultural phase while permitting sexually disenfranchised males to express their discontent through various online channels, free of the old monoculture's Sexual False Consciousness.

What else do you want to know?