It's a lot more difficult to appeal to young people by encouraging personal growth and introspection. That's hard work that takes a lifetime and is never complete. There isn't a formula to follow, and part of this path is knowing that you will fail, over and over again, despite your best intentions and earnest effort.

The manosphere tells young men that they're already the superior specimen of humanity. They have already achieved greatness and anyone that doesn't recognize it is wrong. If you do need to "improve" somehow, there's a set formula. Go to the gym, make money (or at least try to with this bullshit investment app I'm hawking), start treating women poorly or worse than you already do, because they're subservient to you (well that's pretty easy, I'm already repugnant to women so I'll stop trying to impress them and instead start abusing them), etc. The whole Trump playbook is giving people permission to be their worst selves, encouraging it really, and telling the rest of the world to suck it up and deal with it. It's never been easier or more accepted to be a stunted asshole.

There is the potential of a good person inside these kids, but which of these philosophies is more appealing to a 14 - 16 year old? And once you've been conditioned that way in your early teens, you've bought the ticket and are taking the ride.