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Male Loneliness Has Been Monetised
The Underlying Cause Of The “Simp Economy”
The 20-year-old man sits alone in his darkened room, the blue light omitted by his laptop screen the only thing lighting his face.
He has never had a girlfriend. In fact, he’s never even held hands with a girl. He is deeply, deeply, deeply frustrated. His body urges him to seek a mate. His body urges him to have sex and procreate. His body urges him to seek connections with the opposite sex. But alas, he cannot.
He’s too socially anxious. Too weird. He finds eye-contact difficult. He struggles with his self-esteem. He doesn’t understand fashion and dresses awkwardly. He’s profoundly sad, but society has no sympathy to give.
Alone as he is, in his room, sexual urges continue to pulse through his body. He wants sex. But even moreso, he wants some kind of connection with a girl.
The urges have to go somewhere. And so, he reaches for the internet. As he explores every nook and cranny of the digital world, he continues to come across beautiful girls. Their digitally enhanced, perfect eyes look directly at the camera, seemingly mocking his loneliness even further.
The perfect girls are everywhere. He likes to look at them, and the algorithms know it. Across every platform, Instagram, Facebook Ads, Youtube, digital images of beautiful women are shown to him because the algorithm knows he can’t help but gaze at them.
Again and again, he sees mentions of a website called Onlyfans. Eventually, he caves in and makes an account.
He sends a message to one the prettiest girls he can find, and to his surprise, she messages him back! His brain lights up with dopamine. She’s talking to me! Connection! Love! Romance! Sex!
“How are you babe?”
“I’m good thanks, and you?”
“I’m great thanks, I’m just lying in bed ;)”
“Oh? And..what are you doing in bed? ;)”
“Here, let me show you..;)”
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The young man’s brain is fired up on all cylinders. The dopamine invades his brain, preventing rational thought. He sends the money.
