A growing network of online communities known collectively as the “manosphere” is emerging as a serious threat to gender equality, as toxic digital spaces increasingly influence real-world attitudes, behaviours, and policies, the UN agency dedicated to ending gender discrimination has warned.
That chronologically doesn’t work because the manosphere emerged first and FDS’s dogmas are literally copy-pasted from those of the manosphere. I also don’t think enough have heard of FDS to have such a huge impact.
twitter was a thing long thing before it picked up, so emergence doesn’t tell the whole story. also I said "things like "