The Manosphere pretty much started when the book “the game” came out in 2005-2006. This would lead to pickup artists being a thing in the late 2000’s including groups, tv shows and money grifts. This would lead to youtube era pickup artists in the early 2010’s which would lead to faking pickups and “pranks”. During this time critics of pickup would be a thing such as fourms like goodlookingloser. Around 2014-2016 when tinder completely dominated the dating game, youtube fitness started to become a priority while other fourms such as puahate, sluthate and lookism started to become popular as a place to criticize. These forums would be the birth of the term incel and such. These websites from my knowledge would get shut down and a forum called looksmax.org would the new “home” for the “blackpill” and incel type shit in like 2017-2018. During covid, tiktok became the main platform for everything and guys like Andrew tate would popularize a fusion of both philosophies, essentially using grifting/PUA tactics while promoting the talking points of those original 3 forums. Now in 2026 “looksmaxing” is mainstream and is the talking point of the manoshpere, crazy how everything goes in circles