{"id":15289,"date":"2024-11-07T17:54:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15289"},"modified":"2024-11-07T17:54:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:54:21","slug":"is-the-gen-z-bro-media-diet-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15289","title":{"rendered":"Is the Gen Z bro media diet to blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“A Gallup and Walton Family Foundation study showed<\/a> that Gen Z teens are twice as likely to identify as more conservative than their parents in comparison to millennials and their parents 20 years before. This was especially true for male Republican teenagers. Younger people are also more skeptical<\/a> of major American institutions, including political parties, the government, and the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s campaign directly spoke to this demographic: He echoed that same mistrust in institutions, and did so while stopping at seemingly every podcast<\/a>, Twitch stream, YouTube channel, and TikTok page whose viewership is dominated by Gen Z men and boys. He joined<\/a> Adin Ross, a now 24-year-old streamer who once famously looked up<\/a> and struggled to read the definition of \u201cfascism\u201d on camera, for an interview during which Ross presented Trump with a Rolex and a Cybertruck<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He went on the mulleted comedian Theo Von\u2019s podcast<\/a>, where they discussed cocaine, golf, and UFC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He palled around with YouTube millionaires like the Paul brothers and the Nelk Boys, known for their distasteful pranks and crypto scams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, of course, he talked to Joe Rogan, the most famous podcaster in the world; the two rambled to each other<\/a> for three hours. For this, he received Rogan\u2019s much-coveted endorsement.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Nearly half of men between 18 and 29 say there is \u201csome or a lot\u201d of discrimination against men in America, up from a third in 2019, according to the Survey Center on American Life<\/a>, which is affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank. They believe the Me Too movement was an overreach<\/a> and that many women are simply lying about being abused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not exactly surprising they\u2019re drawn to media that speaks to these grievances \u2014 and more often than not, that media comes in the form of individual influencers who are unaffiliated with existing media institutions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“men are even lonelier<\/a>, more likely to be single, more skeptical, and more afraid than ever. They find solace and community online, in places that older folks still don\u2019t understand, where they see idealized versions of masculinity winning. They cheer on UFC fights<\/a> and boxing matches, use \u201cedgy\u201d slurs<\/a>, trade in risky crypto investments<\/a>, bootlick Silicon Valley billionaires, listen to toxic dating advice<\/a>, and denigrate women<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They vote for a man who has done<\/a> everything you\u2019re not supposed to do \u2014 steal, lie, rape, idolize Hitler \u2014 because his election fulfills their fantasy that men really can get away with whatever they want.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/383364\/gen-z-podcasts-trump-win-joe-rogan-bros<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A Gallup and Walton Family Foundation study showed that Gen Z teens are twice as likely to identify as more conservative than their parents in comparison to millennials and their parents 20 years before. This was especially true for male Republican teenagers. Younger people are also more skeptical of major American institutions, including political parties, the government, and the media.
\nTrump\u2019s campaign directly spoke to this demographic: He echoed that same mistrust in institutions, and did so while stopping at seemingly every podcast, Twitch stream, YouTube channel, and TikTok page whose viewership is dominated by Gen Z men and boys. He joined Adin Ross, a now 24-year-old streamer who once famously looked up and struggled to read the definition of \u201cfascism\u201d on camera, for an interview during which Ross presented Trump with a Rolex and a Cybertruck.<\/p>\n

He went on the mulleted comedian Theo Von\u2019s podcast, where they discussed cocaine, golf, and UFC.<\/p>\n

He palled around with YouTube millionaires like the Paul brothers and the Nelk Boys, known for their distasteful pranks and crypto scams.<\/p>\n

And, of course, he talked to Joe Rogan, the most famous podcaster in the world; the two rambled to each other for three hours. For this, he received Rogan\u2019s much-coveted endorsement.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Nearly half of men between 18 and 29 say there is \u201csome or a lot\u201d of discrimination against men in America, up from a third in 2019, according to the Survey Center on American Life, which is affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank. They believe the Me Too movement was an overreach and that many women are simply lying about being abused.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not exactly surprising they\u2019re drawn to media that speaks to these grievances \u2014 and more often than not, that media comes in the form of individual influencers who are unaffiliated with existing media institutions.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“men are even lonelier, more likely to be single, more skeptical, and more afraid than ever. They find solace and community online, in places that older folks still don\u2019t understand, where they see idealized versions of masculinity winning. They cheer on UFC fights and boxing matches, use \u201cedgy\u201d slurs, trade in risky crypto investments, bootlick Silicon Valley billionaires, listen to toxic dating advice, and denigrate women.<\/p>\n

They vote for a man who has done everything you\u2019re not supposed to do \u2014 steal, lie, rape, idolize Hitler \u2014 because his election fulfills their fantasy that men really can get away with whatever they want.” <\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/383364\/gen-z-podcasts-trump-win-joe-rogan-bros<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1095,372,421,772,369,136,328,479,2116],"class_list":["post-15289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-age","tag-election","tag-gender","tag-ideology","tag-male","tag-media","tag-social-media","tag-voting","tag-young-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15290,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289\/revisions\/15290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}