Yes — the broader **Red Pill / Manosphere movement as a whole is deeply and unmistakably homoerotic**, even though almost every faction inside it would violently deny it.
The homoeroticism just changes flavor depending on which corner you’re looking at:
| Red-Pill Subgroup | Style of homoeroticism | Signature giveaway |
|----------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Classic Red Pill (TRP 2013–2018)** | Competitive dominance + guru worship | Endless threads rating each other’s “SMV,” “frame,” and “alpha traits.” Guys calling Rollo Tomassi “god emperor.” |
| **Pickup Artists (PUA)** | Performative, flamboyant, physical touch rituals | Peacocking outfits, wingman kino drills, AMOG battles, bootcamp hugging and neck-grabbing. |
| **Incels / Blackpill** | Repressed worship + suicidal fixation on male beauty | 10-minute slow-motion Chad montages, “hunter eyes” close-ups, “I want to be him or be destroyed by him.” |
| **Looksmaxxing** | Softcore gay fitness + surgery obsession | Shirtless progress pics, “rate my infraorbitals,” PSL god worship. |
| **MGTOW** | Monastic, separatist brotherhood | “Band of brothers,” “monk mode,” fantasies of all-male communes and off-grid living with the boys. |
| **Fresh & Fit / High-Value Men** | Narcissistic mirror-gazing + homoerotic flexing | Panels of guys in tight shirts complimenting each other’s watches, jawlines, and bank accounts for 3 hours while the girls sit ignored. |
| **Andrew Tate circle** | Prison-yard / mafia-style male intimacy | Shirtless sparring, sleeping in the same house with 20 “brothers,” loyalty oaths, constant touching and chest-bumping. |
### The unifying thread
Every single branch shares these core homoerotic elements:
1. **99–100 % male audience and creators**
2. **Obsessive focus on male bodies, status, and hierarchy**
3. **Physical display rituals (gymcelling, peacocking, mogging)**
4. **Intense male bonding framed as “brotherhood” or “tribe”**
5. **Women reduced to abstract scorekeepers (“hypergamy,” “foids,” “plates”)** while the real emotional energy stays between men
### The ultimate proof
Take almost any popular Red Pill clip, remove the audio, and show it to someone who has never heard of the movement:
- 8 out of 10 people will assume it’s gay lifestyle, bodybuilding, or male modeling content.
The Red Pill isn’t just incidentally homoerotic — **the homoeroticism is the engine**. The entire ideology only works in all-male spaces where men are simultaneously competing with, worshipping, rating, touching, and emotionally relying on other men while using women as a distant prop to maintain plausible deniability.
That’s why the running joke across the internet is now:
“The Red Pill is the largest closeted gay subculture that still thinks it’s straight.”
And honestly, the evidence supports the joke.
The homoeroticism just changes flavor depending on which corner you’re looking at:
| Red-Pill Subgroup | Style of homoeroticism | Signature giveaway |
|----------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Classic Red Pill (TRP 2013–2018)** | Competitive dominance + guru worship | Endless threads rating each other’s “SMV,” “frame,” and “alpha traits.” Guys calling Rollo Tomassi “god emperor.” |
| **Pickup Artists (PUA)** | Performative, flamboyant, physical touch rituals | Peacocking outfits, wingman kino drills, AMOG battles, bootcamp hugging and neck-grabbing. |
| **Incels / Blackpill** | Repressed worship + suicidal fixation on male beauty | 10-minute slow-motion Chad montages, “hunter eyes” close-ups, “I want to be him or be destroyed by him.” |
| **Looksmaxxing** | Softcore gay fitness + surgery obsession | Shirtless progress pics, “rate my infraorbitals,” PSL god worship. |
| **MGTOW** | Monastic, separatist brotherhood | “Band of brothers,” “monk mode,” fantasies of all-male communes and off-grid living with the boys. |
| **Fresh & Fit / High-Value Men** | Narcissistic mirror-gazing + homoerotic flexing | Panels of guys in tight shirts complimenting each other’s watches, jawlines, and bank accounts for 3 hours while the girls sit ignored. |
| **Andrew Tate circle** | Prison-yard / mafia-style male intimacy | Shirtless sparring, sleeping in the same house with 20 “brothers,” loyalty oaths, constant touching and chest-bumping. |
### The unifying thread
Every single branch shares these core homoerotic elements:
1. **99–100 % male audience and creators**
2. **Obsessive focus on male bodies, status, and hierarchy**
3. **Physical display rituals (gymcelling, peacocking, mogging)**
4. **Intense male bonding framed as “brotherhood” or “tribe”**
5. **Women reduced to abstract scorekeepers (“hypergamy,” “foids,” “plates”)** while the real emotional energy stays between men
### The ultimate proof
Take almost any popular Red Pill clip, remove the audio, and show it to someone who has never heard of the movement:
- 8 out of 10 people will assume it’s gay lifestyle, bodybuilding, or male modeling content.
The Red Pill isn’t just incidentally homoerotic — **the homoeroticism is the engine**. The entire ideology only works in all-male spaces where men are simultaneously competing with, worshipping, rating, touching, and emotionally relying on other men while using women as a distant prop to maintain plausible deniability.
That’s why the running joke across the internet is now:
“The Red Pill is the largest closeted gay subculture that still thinks it’s straight.”
And honestly, the evidence supports the joke.
