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ABC Science follows the money behind the manosphere

Sana Qadar's All In the Mind investigation examines how online belonging becomes a business built on grievance.

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ABC Science Story of November 5, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Inside the 'Manosphere' and the Grift Economy | All In the Mind

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2:30Seidler explains how male self-improvement searches can become a route into misogynistic content.
5:04A Dublin City University study found extreme recommendations reaching accounts mimicking teenagers within minutes.
8:30The report outlines recruitment, grievance amplification and paid products as stages of the grift economy.
14:12Vasiliou and Seidler propose emotional literacy, school interventions and nuanced engagement with boys.

ABC Science brought in more weekly views than most of its nearby science-channel peers, with a little over a million across the catalogue. That reach wasn't all about fresh uploads: an older Wikipedia investigation remains its busiest video right now.

Among the three new uploads, though, Sana Qadar's "Inside the 'Manosphere' and the Grift Economy | All In the Mind" drew the largest audience, reaching roughly 16,000 views. It asks how seemingly ordinary searches for confidence or self-improvement can become an entry point into misogynistic content.

Clinical psychologist Dr Zac Seidler and researcher Dr Vivian Gerrand help explain the pull. The report presents a three-stage business model: recruit an audience, amplify its grievances, then sell courses and subscriptions. Its final stretch turns towards responses, with Seidler and The Man Cave's Ben Vasiliou advocating emotional literacy and more nuanced engagement with boys, rather than treating them as a single, already-convinced audience.

The other new videos return to lived experience. "I Thought I Was Dying. It Was Coeliac." arrived alongside ""I Turned the Lights Off to See My Hallucinations Better"", in which Sam shares his experience of bipolar disorder.

Subscriber growth continued modestly, although daily viewing is below the channel's usual level. Meanwhile, Zac Zinn's Wikipedia rabbit hole supplies a different kind of investigation: following first links towards Philosophy, then testing what happens in other languages. Published just over a fortnight ago, it is drawing more daily views than either of the week's busiest new uploads.

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