Some claim if you don’t make a woman feel inferior, she won’t believe she’s "dating up".

Many manfluencers believe women are genetically hardwired to mate only with so-called "alpha males".

This video peddles the manosphere belief that women don’t like good men because they are "naturally" attracted to "dark-triad" personalities (narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism).

This tactic endorses and excuses toxic behaviours.

When it comes to money advice, it's also aggressively masculine.

UK manfluencer Hamza advises men to become influencers if they want to become rich, high-status leaders.

See how he slips in visual dog whistles to establish associations between success and aggressive masculinity.

Our teenager has watched and liked this content because it tells him some simple life hacks will make him a "high-value man". It's easy, practical advice that resonated.

So, the algorithm serves him more of it.

But it starts to get darker, suggesting women enjoy sexual aggression and violence.

And because of those earlier videos about female inferiority and male aggression, he's been primed to accept what comes next.

The dating coach in this video uses language and concepts from evolutionary psychology.

This lends "scientific" legitimacy to his claims and recasts male sexual violence as motivated by a desire to protect women.

At this point, our teenager is also receiving videos about concepts like "the Red Pill". This is the idea that by refusing to blindly accept the world as it is, they learn the "truth": that men are at the whims of women's power and desires.

This messaging reframes hypermasculinity as edgy and anti-establishment. But in reality, it's about preserving the status quo, not disrupting it.

It also positions followers as intelligent and questioning.

By now, we are quite deep in the manosphere.

A steady stream of narratives about male victimhood and "wokeism" make our boy feel both enlightened and aggrieved.

Videos will often start referencing the film The Matrix.

Manfluencers describe how the corporate world, liberal government and education conspire to keep "blue-pilled brokies" in a life of wage slavery.

Our teenager’s mindset has started to change.

He is now engaging with overt misogyny, as well as common far-right tropes, such as that single mothers produce murderers, drug dealers and criminals.

These ideas are probably manifesting in his behaviour at school, and in how he is treating girls and women both on and offline.

At this point, our teenager is groomed into a mindset that conflates nihilism and lack of empathy with courageous masculinity.

He's told to focus relentlessly on himself, and to diminish his empathy for others.