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n an interview for Wired, Theroux stated that Inside the Manosphere built on themes he had explored frequently in previous documentaries: “cultlike groupings, misogyny, adult content, creation of pornographic content, and obviously racism. All these taboo areas of life that I’ve spent my TV work documenting in different forms come together in the manosphere”. He had previously touched on manosphere content through interviews with right-wing influencers Baked Alaska and Nick Fuentes in 2022. The presenter said that he was drawn by the challenge of filming subjects who were recording him in turn and transforming the filming crew’s presence into content.
Theroux had contacted prominent manosphere influencer Andrew Tate to discuss filming with him; Tate responded with: “I’m the most relevant man on the planet. And who are you? You were relevant years ago?” Tate followed this with a Google Trends screenshot comparing Tate and Theroux’s search interest over time. According to Theroux, his own search interest was “down near death” in the graph whereas Tate’s was “quite high all the way along”. However, at the very end of the graphic, Theroux’s “picked up and actually overtook his”, something Tate did not respond to when this was pointed out.
Theroux appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, a key vehicle for manosphere content, in 2016, but admitted that he “wasn’t under the impression that it was going to become a main engine of political culture” at the time.
