for shame
A podcast with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and followers across online platforms is fueling the flames of controversy: scorning the female guests and making them look foolish.
“Whatever,” hosted by Brian Atlas, masquerades as a dating talk show as it delves into gender roles, body counts and the legitimacy of patriarchy.
The podcast team uses social media to find female panelists, then “roast” them online in bits that lend themselves to the virality of inflammatory takes.
In other words, it’s perfect clickbait.
In one episode, the panelists, who are all women, rate themselves as “10s”, much to Atlas’ surprise.
“I’ll be honest, I’m not going to rate you, but none of you are a 10,” he says in responseprompting a chorus of agreement in user comments by cruelly joking about women’s weight and looks.
In another, Atlas grids the panelists by body count (or how many people they’ve been intimate with) and is met with resistance.
“I don’t care, but you do” said a woman, gesturing to the men sitting at the table. “So I’m not going to stand here and say my body count just because you two are ridiculing me or something.”
while OnlyFans model Nicolette Nicole admitted that her appearance on the podcast was to bolster her own following, she Vice said that the clips were “definitely chosen to create controversy” and make her “look dumb” and “embarrass” her.
On Twitter and TikTok, provocative one-line captions on videos attract thousands to millions of views.
“OnlyFans Girl Gets Roasted,” The Podcast he tweeted.
“They think they’re 10, what about NOT WEARING MAKEUP?!” read another tweet.
On Twitter, “Whatever” often promotes videos from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro and champions disgraced internet personality Andrew Tate.
Tate has it been accused of sexual assault and physical abuse after serving a sentence in a Romanian prison on allegations of rape, trafficking and organized crime. He has declared his innocence.
The podcast’s following has grown in the middle of the reactionwith horror critics panned the show for speaking “out of spite” to women while dubbing Atlas as an “Andrew Tate wannabe.”
“Say you despise women without telling me you despise women… and don’t forget the condescension,” said one Redditor.
“Is it me, or do all these women look incredibly uncomfortable?” he wrote another, in part.
The Post has reached out to Atlas for comment.
Content creator Drew Afualo, who has 8 million followers on TikTok, thanks her misogynistic men applaud — has expressed his displeasure with the content of Atlas.
In one clipAfualo joins a snippet of Atlas telling a panelist “not a 10,” referring to her looks, to which she says, “That’s just your opinion.”
In response, Atlas continues to reiterate her stance on her attractiveness because “it bothers her that he doesn’t bother her.”
In another, Afualo responds to a video from the “Anybody” podcast with Atlas’ claims that men are “more oppressed” than women.
“Why people keep going to this podcast, I can’t even begin to understand” Afualo said.
“Fk this podcast, really.”
“Whatever” It’s not the first podcast of its kind to ignite frenzied fury online (or, as Vice put it, “fuel the gender culture war”).
Tik Tok i Twitter are inundated with talk show snippets: read: men in their living rooms with microphones – who are pushing women to do it tease them i beg to “stop giving microphones to men“.
Kenyatta Victoria, writer for Essence’s Girls United This week he pointed out that everyone seems to have a podcast these days.
“What used to be a space where people could report and talk about specific topics (with experts) has become an opportunity for someone to project their emotions and opinions that don’t involve them,” Victoria wrote, urging viewers to “extend those who approach.” craft ethically and responsibly instead of constantly feeding the ego.”
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