How the Incels Found American Psycho
Added 2025-06-15 15:00:12 +0000 UTCWelcome to our first exclusive video: "How the Incels Found American Psycho"! It's about Patrick Bateman, conformist cuck and murderer, becoming an icon of sigma male masculinity within the manosphere! How and why did that happen, and where do we go from here? So excited to hear your thoughts!
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Comments
woof. this was a tough watch but so well done
Heather Redacted
2025-07-31 16:07:32 +0000 UTChttps://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjELTE46/
lescassowaries
2025-07-01 23:53:40 +0000 UTCSuch fine Canadian craftsmanship. I know you weren't jazzed on your previous video, so this is like a return to form.
Lootpack Jack
2025-07-01 07:04:34 +0000 UTCI appreciate your honesty in explaining why you've decided to switch to the Patreon model instead of Youtube or Nebula, and I will gladly fork over some money to hear what you have to say, at least until my budget complains. đ OK, so first I will mention that I deliberately held off on watching this video until I'd finished reading the book for the first time and let it settle. Truly one of the most difficult books I've ever read, not only for the graphic descriptions of violence (which I mostly skimmed over) but for the sheer mind-numbing boredom of brand names and status signifiers and repetitive social scenarios it depicts. Not an ounce of originality among the characters, and yet on the whole the book itself was pretty unique in how it blurred the lines between reality and fantasy through Bateman's unreliable narration. One part that particularly leapt out at me was the chapter (I forget which exactly but it was towards the second half of the book) where Bateman is supposedly beginning to experience repercussions to his violent actions and the POV suddenly changes from first-person to third-person, following Bateman as he flees the scene of one crime only to commit another in broad daylight while being chased by cops. It's been long enough since I've watched the film that I don't remember if this gets represented in some way, but I imagine it would be rather difficult to switch POVs visually, and I think Mary Harron was wise to avoid holding too closely to the book for this reason, among many. It was super helpful to hear from the author about his experience of writing the book and what it meant to him, both during and long after the context in which it was written. Ultimately I think your analysis is spot on, that the intended irony and satire of the book and movie were flattened and micro-edited out by influencers greedy for bite-sized chunks of culture that their audience could easily swallow. While both the book and movie did valuable work portraying the dual-edged sword of beauty and ugliness during that particular era--and Christian Bale's performance will always remain iconic--I fear for what it will become in the hands of today's youth. đŹ The one bright side I can find at the moment is that the only reason I even watched the movie in the first place was because a younger friend recommended it to me many years ago, and as far as I can tell, he never went the way of Bateman in his professional or personal choices after that. Good for him. And time for a rewatch on my part I think, with my very tolerant partner by my side to tell me when I can uncover my eyes during the chainsaw scene. đ«Ł
CelesteK
2025-06-25 13:56:39 +0000 UTChmm you should be able to cast the entire webpage and then from there expand on the video! let me know if that works and if not I'll look into some other options :)
Broey Deschanel
2025-06-20 15:13:13 +0000 UTCSorry to out myself as an "elder millennial" but is there any way to Chromecast things on Patreon? Would love to watch this on the "big screen" (my TV)
Eloise Grills
2025-06-20 00:07:58 +0000 UTCInceldom is a spectrum in that most people can't have sex with everyone they'd like to for one reason or another, and are therefore involuntary celebate in regards to some of the people they'd like to fuck. I remember when ER happened, there were guys in comment sections hating on PUA because even after trying the PUA strategies they were still only getting the types of women they'd always got ( low value ones I guess they'd say) and they sounded just as embittered and had the same talking points as the guys who weren't getting any at all.
FM P
2025-06-18 12:27:54 +0000 UTCOoooooffftt girl! This video is a masterpiece. Loved how you all brought such an empathetic view on all the interpretations of the story, whether it be through Ellis, Harron or today's internet subculture.
Parvathi Nair
2025-06-17 17:55:28 +0000 UTCAfter seeing Materialists with my mom this past weekend, I was listening to her claim that the "moral of the story" was that "all these people are unfulfilled because they don't have Jesus". I politely pointed out that I don't think Celine Song intended to have a spiritual dimension to the story, but you know what tale of yuppie New York excess DOES? ;) (Wish me luck; I'm hoping to show it to her later this week)
Charli Rogers
2025-06-16 21:51:41 +0000 UTCThis was great! Always loved your stuff but for some reason, the AI video didnât really connect, nor interest me. However, an exploration of the misinterpretation of American psycho, while also acknowledging how it could become this pillar of inceldom (despite being a deeply feminist film where Bateman is portrayed as an empty, boring loser), was compelling. And made me understand on a deeper level how we got here. Return to form!
Josh Svetz
2025-06-16 13:03:36 +0000 UTCi always appreciate the wider net yâall cast on a subject to create a nuanced discussion. it is really interesting to see how a film can have such extremely different perspectives that bring it to cult status
brookelynne
2025-06-16 01:42:55 +0000 UTCAmazing video. I thought this property had been memed to death, and then meme critiqued into oblivion, but you blossomed some very smart and relevant insight. It's still baffling that so much of the internet don't just miss the satire of book and movie, but also ignore the explicit text (not subtext) that the life and persona that Patrick has fashioned for himself make him completely miserable and feeling worthless. A recurring joke is that Patrick and his cohorts are so redundant and unremarkable that the characters keep confusing each other for one another. Also, as soon as I finished watching this, in an overwhelming state of cold sweat cringe, I immediately switched my profile picture on here from an unironic bathroom selfie of myself at the office in a suit and my favorite (and unintentionally Batemanesque) vintage Armani overcoat to me just hanging in a bootleg John Prine shirt. Big surprise, I look far more content in the latter. I'm about to go and exit about a dozen online shopping tabs that you reminded me won't fill the consumerist hole in my soul. Nice work and keep fighting the good fight.
Tyler Mason
2025-06-15 18:54:43 +0000 UTCThis is, hands down, the best analysis of American Psycho Iâve ever seenâno exaggeration. It hits a truth Iâve long felt but rarely seen articulated so clearly. I first saw the film in Harvard Square when I was 27 and attending business school. I connected with it immediatelyâbut not because I saw Patrick Bateman as "real." In fact, I didnât take him seriously. Iâd met people like him on campus: smooth, cold, image-obsessed. But they struck me as superficial, even laughable. In truth, most of my classmates at HBS werenât like that at all. The film worked for me precisely because I recognized its satireâitâs not an exposĂ© of Wall Street, but a send-up of how people imagine that world. That said, I did go on to work on Wall Street. For over 20 years. And yesâmany of the people who do my former job are monsters. Unlike Bateman, theyâre not funny. I could count the genuinely decent people I met over two decades on both hands. I managed to hold onto my individuality, but it was alienating. I abhorred the greed, the cruelty, the shallownessâand yes, it caused conflict, often at my own expense. Walking away from that world was one of the best decisions Iâve ever made. And if I could do it over, Iâd choose a different path entirely. That life is hollow. Empty. The film remains hilarious to me, but now, itâs not about my old careerâitâs about something bigger. Influencer culture. The manosphere. The Joe Rogan cult. UFC bros. Bateman is no longer just a parody of a bankerâheâs a prototype for the modern grifter chasing status and image under the guise of "authenticity." He's a DIY guru, a walking brand, an aspirational psychopath. Today, he'd be selling protein powders, mental toughness, and â10 rules for lifeâ in a podcast studio lit by red LEDs. And hereâs the uncomfortable truth: the entire culture around UFC and Rogan is soaked in repressed homoeroticism. I used to watch UFC back in the 2010s, and the subtext is right there if youâre willing to see it. Two ripped men, nearly nude, drenched in sweat, rolling over each other while commentators and fans rave about their bodies and âdominance.â Their social media comments are filled with praise for how âamazingâ these men lookâyet theyâd never call it attraction. Because to them, violence justifies the intimacy. Also try googling, just MMA terminology, and see how sexually charged the language is. It's very in your face. And they can't see or admit to this. It's pathetic and hilarious at the same time. Trump's presence at UFC events reveals even more: 20,000 people chanting "USA" at a man who embodies Batemanâs empty narcissismâwhile pretending theyâre celebrating masculinity. But they're not. They're lost in a loop of denial, unable to see that what they mock is what they are. Like Bateman, they are interchangeable, blank, defined only by who they pretend to be. Theyâll never face the mirror. And thatâs why American Psycho is still so sharpâitâs not just about yuppie culture, itâs about American culture. Batemanâs greatest fear isnât being caughtâitâs being seen. Truly seen. Just like the modern influencer, just like the cult of the alpha male, just like the echo chamber that voted in Trump 2.0. Bateman doesnât want power, or sex, or moneyâhe wants social validation. He just wants to fit in. And in 2025, thatâs not fiction. Thatâs the algorithm.
Fourth Horseman
2025-06-15 18:11:09 +0000 UTCthis was such a great video!! i think the challenge of addressing issues like incel-ism in media is that oftentimes, in order to address it, you need to depict it. and once you depict it, regardless of your intentions, a part of the interpretation is the responsibility of the audience, who has the opportunity to embrace what has been depicted or reject it, or find somewhere in between. you addressed that in a different video super well about licorice pizza which i loved. but iâve noticed a big issue, especially in gen-z, where there is a desire to box every character in media into âgoodâ or âbadâ. characters are interpreted as irredeemable scumbags by some, and lauded as idols by others. iâm really interested in how we, as an audience and also as media-creators, can return toward an interpretation of characters as complex, as people who do bad things but are not necessarily inherently bad or the root of all evil. with patrick bateman specifically, i want there to be a world where we can acknowledge him as someone who does bad things, but does them because he is a victim of the ideology of capitalism â not because he is inherently evil.
Zoe Soteres
2025-06-15 16:24:50 +0000 UTC
