The god of toxic masculinity (supernatural)

[Yarglenurp]

It sometimes feel like alpha-chad influencers have some supernatural ability to draw audiences despite having total dogshit ideas and being literal idiots. What if there really was a supernatural element to it?

a young man recently suffers a breakup because his girlfriend is going out of state for medical school and wants to focus on her future. He thought they had a plan to stay together and get married, and now he's seeking answers.

MC comes across a podcast who gets him thinking that its society's fault for convincing him to be a nice guy. He was a man who worked hard, respected his girlfriend, and encouraged her to pursue her dreams. That failed him. The podcast makes suggestions about taking steroids, going to the gym, wearing sunglasses, and never taking shit from anyone. The MC takes all this advice and does a total 180 on his personality.

At first, holy shit, it works. He's getting stronger, getting girls, getting the respect he craves. Over time though, everything starts falling apart because he's compelled to be an asshole to everything and everyone. Literally, he can't seem to help it. His new GF leaves him, his job fires him, even his cat runs away. But he still can't stop "being alpha."

In his dreams, he is not strong. He is weak and naked. He is visited by a bald, muscular brute with four arms and dark pits for eyes. The brute grabs him from behind and whispers things in his ear... he can't understand what is being said but he knows it is both exhilarating and terrifying. The brute does things to him that he knows he should not want done to him. Worse, the brute does this not out of pleasure, but to teach him what he must do to others. Each day, he wakes in a cold sweat, not because he's forgotten the dream, but because he remembers the dream with a little more clarity each day. He still can't remember the whispers, but he somehow knows that he will if he keeps listening to the podcast.

It all comes to a head when MC mentions the podcast to the MC's one remaining female friend (maybe sibling), and the friend says there is no such podcast. When the MC plays the podcast for the friend in the car, what comes out is static and some bizarre chant in a incomprehensible language. The MC blacks out as he hears a horrifying scream...

 

[ericrodman101]

There's not enough supernatural porn. Every horror movie ever made could do with a porn remake. What works better than a room full of screaming scantily-clad coeds being fucked as part of the horror experience? As for your story, Yarglenurp, it works as a possession scenario. The devil or the demon takes control, and how better to do that than by fucking?

 

[Yarglenurp]

There's not enough supernatural porn. Every horror movie ever made could do with a porn remake. What works better than a room full of screaming scantily-clad coeds being fucked as part of the horror experience? As for your story, Yarglenurp, it works as a possession scenario. The devil or the demon takes control, and how better to do that than by fucking?

Not a demon, a god.

Gods don't want to possess. They want worshippers who will carry on the faith and find new converts. In my view, gods are less like thinking creatures and more like bacteria, fungi, or internet memes. The end goal of a god is not some definite thing, it is a perpetual journey of winning more believers. And the god here spreads through influencers.

I see this as a very obvious parodic horror comedy themed in the "manosphere" community. The erotic scenes would be M/m scenes of the brute coercing the heterosexual dreamer into erotic acts. He starts acting more like the various semi-famous alpha-chad influencer types, until he reaches the final stage of buying his own podcast kit and making podcasts, shows, and twitch live casts.

The real horror for me, of course, is that there is no God of toxic masculinity. These guys do it all on their own.

 

[LiverpoolMaster]

It sometimes feel like alpha-chad influencers have some supernatural ability to draw audiences despite having total dogshit ideas and being literal idiots. What if there really was a supernatural element to it?

You have to realise that those audiences are comprised of similar lowbrows.

I really don't think there's anything 'supernatural' in the ability of the lower reaches of the IQ spectrum to idolise morons. Put simply, idiots are drawn to other idiots, almost certainly because this affords them a comfort zone where their own inferiority is not shown up for what it is.

Despite not being an American, I have a feeling I may know to whom you're referring....

 

[TheLobster]

Despite not being an American, I have a feeling I may know to whom you're referring....

There is the one obvious bald douchebag in Romania that everyone has heard about.

But other than him, I’m not at all sure what OP is really talking about. Seems to me like he’d stumbled in some dark corner of YouTube recommendations algorithm and is now convinced that some very niche creators are much bigger problem than they actually are.

 

[Yarglenurp]

There is the one obvious bald douchebag in Romania that everyone has heard about.

But other than him, I’m not at all sure what OP is really talking about. Seems to me like he’d stumbled in some dark corner of YouTube recommendations algorithm and is now convinced that some very niche creators are much bigger problem than they actually are.

Oh, if only that were true. There's actually more than a few out there. I don't watch or listen to any of them, but many have follower counts in the millions. The fact that you don't know who they are is more indicative of the fact that you aren't an asshole than any indication of their obscurity. I have had at least three former peers or coworkers take their "advice" much to their career and personal life detriment.

The one you're talking about provided the visual inspiration, but he's definitely not the only one.