[kng]

Why tf is this forum so dead? It's also very American-centric

[Some guy2]

It’s so America-centric because America invented forums. Also game. Also most cool stuff ever, and the rest were invented in Europe.

[Archivist]

Why tf is this forum so dead? It's also very American-centric

Roosh grew it by using hate-bait marketing.  He published Tuthmosis' "5 Reasons to Date a Girl with an Eating Disorder", "Girls with Short Hair Are Damaged", and "24 Signs She's a Slut".  The resulting outrage on social media drove traffic to the blog and forum.  Forum veterans knew it was all trolling.

But Roosh relied on the goodwill of free social media and payment sites.  Eventually Roosh went too far by adapting Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal" to "How to Stop Rate" (by legalizing it on private property).  David Futrelle blogged about his potential "rape guides" in 2015, and the SPLC added him to a list in 2018.  This got him banned from Paypal, and his books with rapey passages got banned from Amazon.  Those sites did not make much money from him, and did not want the bad publicity of selling "rape guides".  It is one thing to have a few ambiguous passages like "she initially said no, but then had sex."  But many forum participants and PUA's had criminal sexual assault charges, including Vorkuta, MikeCF, JMULV, and two Efficient Pickup instructors.  Amazon was generous in not banning his other books (such as Bang).

Roosh and Roissy hung out at the same D.C. bars.  This was an American forum.