The manosphere’s primary enemy: Louis Theroux bombarded with abuse from influencers featured on his documentary as they wage conflict after Netflix humiliation

Louis Theroux has been bombarded with abuse from the manosphere influencers who featured on his Netflix documentary, waging war against ‘editing’ and accusing the streaming service of ‘making them look crazy’.

Louis, 55, met with a series of content creators, with thousands of followers across Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, to discuss their shock views on masculinity, women and society in the feature-length special.

The documentarian went behind the scenes at the forefront of a fast-growing cultural movement of extremist influencers targeting young men with misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic and racist views online in Inside The Manosphere. 

He travelled across the globe to meet the most prominent figures of the movement, who fill their digital platforms with often hateful and harmful content, including. Amrou Fudl, known online as Myron Gains, and Harrison Sullivan, dubbed HStikkytokky. 

Both Amrou, 36, and Harrison, 24, made it clear during the documentary they had a distrust of the documentarian, with one recording everything he said to Louis, and the other hitting out online over his fears he was going to ‘rip him’.

Nonetheless, alongside fellow manosphere influencers Justin Waller, Ed Matthews and Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy, known as Sneako, the content creators let cameras in to film their lives. 

Now, in the wake of the documentary’s release – which has seen online discourse about the manosphere hit boiling point and its biggest supporters clash with critics around the world – the influencers are fighting back.

Amrou Fudl (Myron Gaines)

On Thursday, Amrou, aka Myron Gaines, was quick to hit back against the documentary of editing that ‘made him look crazy’ – hitting out at the streaming service for being ‘woke‘. 

The content creator rose to fame online among a young male audience due to his controversial ‘Fit and Fresh’ podcast, which has hosted Andrew Tate in the past.

The series, which is a two to five hour show focusing on topics including masculinity, relationships, fitness and finance, is streamed online across X, formerly Twitter, and paid-for content site Kick, where young men pay to subscribe. 

During the documentary, Louis sat in on a recording of the ‘After Hours’ section of the podcast, which sees Amrou spar with local female influencers around a table, and in one shock clip saw him brand a female guest ‘fat f***ing b***h’.

Louis also quizzed Amrou on his hopes to have ‘multiple wives’ – following a ‘one-way monogamous’ relationship with his now ex-girlfriend.

Amrou has since branded Louis a ‘liar’ in a second podcast format, The Debrief, where he shares his controversial and divisive opinions on recent news stories.

In the horrifying over seven-hour long stream titled ‘Inside the Therouxsphere of lies’, which saw him react to a shooting at a synagogue and developments on the Middle East conflict, he hit out against the documentary as ‘making him look crazy’. 

Branding Netflix as a ‘bunch of woke garbage’ and referring to the documentarian as ‘Louis the liar’, he said of his TV appearance: ‘For a very long time I was hesitant.

‘I was not really interested in doing it and the reason why was because I saw how they did my boy Andrew Tate. I wasn’t really happy about it.

‘These companies understand that “normies” are easily shocked and offended, and what they do is, they find polarising people…

‘They get them for interviews, they cut out all the context, all the background, why they think the way that they do and they cut out how they came to their conclusion.

‘Their goal is to take a polarising person, put them in a box, make them look crazy, give shock value and sell it off.’

Elsewhere in the controversial episode, Amrou shockingly told his devoted followers that overweight people ‘don’t deserve’ to find love.

He later added that ‘feminism was behind’ all of the ‘problems’ in the world – met with hundreds of followers in agreement. 

He also used a homophobic and ableist slurs as he hit back at followers with views of disagreement, branded women ‘w****s’ and ‘h**s’, and used an anti-semitic caricature image as he spoke about Jews. 

Harrison Sullivan (HStikkytokky)

Harrison, aka HStikkytokky, took to live stream service Kick on Thursday to slam Louis for his ‘nonsensical’ documentary and branded him a ‘hypocrite’.

The content creator first grew a following posting fitness and lifestyle content on the likes of TikTok and Instagram, and his popularity grew after the release of viral song, Hold This, back in 2022. 

His content took a dark turn when he began talking about investments, dating and, most prominently, masculinity, making provocative statements in online clips including antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic remarks. 

Harrison once again saw his following grow after dangerous driving charges, crashing a supercar and avoiding court by fleeing the UK, put his name in the headlines – leading to a suspended prison sentence and a driving ban. 

Documentary maker Louis described how HS has amassed a huge online following, and 500,000 subscribers to a chat room on Telegram, where he shares the accounts of X-rated OnlyFans performers, boosting their profiles, to his male fans.

Harrison has previously been linked to adult content creator Bonnie Blue, having interviewed her as part of his social media content output, calling her ‘disgusting’.

Nonetheless, Harrison was happy to share videos he took of a sex act with Louis, as he revealed he’d been ‘out late getting content’ in one shock scene. 

Elsewhere in the documentary, Louis was left stunned as he watched on while Harrison’s fans ‘kicked and punched’ a man as they targeted him for content.

While Harrison openly told Louis he was happy to harvest controversial videos ‘for the money’, leaving the documentarian shocked over his lack of ‘morality’. 

‘No, because I openly say I don’t give a f**k and I’m doing it for money. I don’t care about…’ Harrison told Louis, who responded: ‘The morality of it?’ 

Louis went on: ‘You can’t say I promote it but discourage people from doing it… You say it but it doesn’t mean anything.

‘So you say, “Come down to the gym I’m going to help you work out” and then you just have a box of donuts – there’s a box of donuts that I’m holding up to your face… it’s giving very mixed messages.’

HS continued: ‘You do what you choose. If you want to go and eat the donuts, eat the donuts, but I own the donut shop.

‘If you wanna come in the gym and pay for the PT or eat the donuts, I make dough either way. My kids are going to be very happy, they can do what they want.’

Louis then pointed out: ‘You sound a bit like Bonnie Blue…  that it doesn’t really matter what choices you make because you’re making money, “my kids will enjoy a high standard of living so because of my choices of living”.’

Angered, Harrison replied: ‘You’re saying me posting pictures with a few girls is the same as getting shagged by a thousand guys? Don’t compare me to Bonnie. 

‘I’m not getting triggered, but you’re talking s**t mate.’

Harrison expressed in the documentary about his worried Louis was planning to ‘rip him’ – writing to his following: ‘Very interesting discussions with Louis, will be interested to see how he tries to rip me.’

He added: ‘If you want to call me a pimp, scammer, racist, homophobic d***head, I’m all of those, I’m all of those Theroux. What are you going to do about it?’ 

Now, Harrison has hit back at their exchange, reading out a social media post from a fan: ‘Funniest point in the whole of this, that Louis made about HS was about him promoting OnlyFans girls.

‘Louis says you can’t promote something whilst also saying it’s bad… whilst also doing a hit piece of the manosphere which he promoted to Netflix.’

He reacted: ‘Facts,’ before going on: ‘The funniest point about all of this is that Louis made the point to me… How does that make sense? He is a total, total hypocrite.’

Ed Matthews

Ed, who has long been friends with fellow manosphere influencer Harrison, first rose to fame on TikTok, boosted by a boxing career launched in 2022. 

He joined Louis and Harrison in the documentary, to talk about his growing presence on live streaming sites, that saw him ‘chatting up’ girls, and taking part in so-called ‘predator stings’, confronting and humiliating people he accused of being predators.

Ed, 23, proudly showed Louis how he had forced some of the individuals to eat pet food as part of the ‘sting’ content, and bragged about the punishment as ‘worse than jail’ time. 

He defended Louis as ‘not a pedophile’ as a group of fans circled during their interview in one shock moment, before taking the documentary maker on a night out in Marbella where he films ‘chat up’ content. 

When he was declined by one woman, Ed was seen telling the camera: ‘ 

Elsewhere, he opened up on his conspiracy theory beliefs, telling Louis: ‘I feel like the people who run the world, they don’t have our best intentions… they use vibrations that are negatively going to bring you down.’

When asked by Louis who he thought ‘controlled all of that’, Ed left him shocked when he simply replied: ‘The Jews.’

However, since the documentary’s release, Ed has chosen not to respond to any of the online commentary, instead resuming his regular live streaming schedule on Kick with videos of himself partying alongside other controversial influencers.  

Nicholas Kenn De Balinthazy (Sneako)

Nicholas, aka Sneako, also took to his Kick livestream on Thursday to react to the public perception of his time on the Netflix documentary – suggesting the documentarian had ‘edited out’ some of their conversations. 

In the trailer for the series, Nicholas, 27,  could be seen worrying that Louis was planning ‘to do a hit piece’ on him by asking for his involvement in the documentary.

Before their big meeting, the documentary maker ran through some of his most controversial statements, including society trying to ‘make people gay’ and hitting out against women having the vote, saying: ‘We should not them.’

Another clip sees the star falsely claiming that governments were ‘putting stuff in tap water to make’ individuals ‘turn’ transgender.

Nicholas, who is a personal friend of Andrew Tate, he claims Baron Trump, the son of the American President, is a fan of his online content, despite being banned from most major platforms for hate speech and misinformation.

But Nicholas has now hit back that a number of the ‘debates’ between the duo were ‘cut’ from the documentary, and asked Louis to ‘send them’ to him. 

Nicholas told his viewers: ‘He cut out a lot of the debates – I didn’t even record any of my own stuff for safety, which was a little bit charitable, maybe I should of…

‘I crushed him, like every debate that we had, me and Louis Theroux, I crushed him, and I would like to see that footage, Louis, if you could send it to me so I could upload it that would be great.

He added to Louis: ‘The deleted scenes would be great content if you think you won those debates but, let’s be real, you know why you cut it out.

‘He was also trying to insinuate that I am a crazy conspiracy theorist… but you’re a conspiracy theorist until a month passes and then you’re vindicated, so it did not age well from the time that it was filmed.’

Nonetheless, Nicholas said that he ‘liked’ the documentary did not come across like ‘hit piece slander’, hitting out that the worst of the backlash came ‘from the manosphere’ with followers of the belief system ‘trying to ruin his life’. 

Justin Waller

American manosphere influencer Justin shocked Louis when he opened up about his ‘one-sided monogamous’ relationship with his long-term partner, the mother of his three children, including young daughters. 

Justin, 40, named one of his children Emory after the late father of Andrew Tate, telling self-professed misogynist in a podcast episode they hosted together.

He made no secret of his views during his appearance on the documentary, where he boasted he was worth a mammoth £30million, boosted by Telegram forum The Real Group, set up by Tate brothers Andrew and Tristan.

The platform claims to help those who have signed up make money, and costs $49 (£37) to subscribe to on a monthly basis.

He accused Louis of ‘setting him up’ as he was quizzed about his relationship, which involves his partner ‘not talking to other men’, but allows him to sleep with other women.

Justin said: ‘Women don’t want to sleep with other men when they love a man.

‘Here we go, setting me up. The mother of my children, the woman that I am with, she doesn’t talk to other men. People get so upset about this.

‘The mother of my children, the woman that I am with, she doesn’t talk to other men…’

He also controversially added of women: ‘They’re with value through beauty, because a woman can be stunningly beautiful at 20 years old and get invited to ride in that car, or onto a boat, or be flying to Miami or whatever because it’s pure beauty.

‘[Men] have to create value in the world. He has to be valuable to other men. Otherwise nobody cares.’

Justin later added, as he stood with Louis in the street: ‘Look around, can you name anything that a woman has invented and built in our plain sight? Nothing.’

Justin originally banned his pregnant partner – who he is not married to – and children from appearing in the documentary, but later changed his mind and allowed the cameras access. 

His partner left Louis shocked when, at home with their daughters, she said: ‘I think most women like the idea or like to know that their man is wanted by other women.’

Despite the online backlash over his appearance in the feature-length special, Justin has opted not to comment on his appearance. 

Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere is available to stream on Netflix now