(06-08-2025, 10:46 PM)Ozzy Wrote: (05-26-2025, 08:41 PM)The X Manifesto Wrote: He fucked up big time in Japan. Also set the scene for Australia.
What did he do in Japan?
Owen "Tyler Durden" Cook and Nick "Papa" Kho movied into Erik "Mystery" Markovic's "Project Hollywood" house with Neil Strauss to learn and run PUA seminars. As seminars became successful, they founded Real Social Dynamics (RSD) to compete with Mystery.
Neil Strauss's
The Game book says Aspy squeaky-voiced Owen stayed locked up in his room, moderating RSD message boards. Lacking game skills, Owen and Nick added Jeff "Jeffy JLAIX" Allen who had a reputation for bold drunk karaoke game. They later hired others to run seminars and created viral content.
They sent Julien Blanc to Japan to make street videos picking up Japanese girls without knowing any Japanese. Julien made a stupid video claiming that you could do anything, just yell "Pikachu" and shove a girl's head toward your crotch. The video went viral, and ultimately Julien et al made groveling apologies on television. RSD also got banned from Australia. RSD deleted their forums and videos, pivoted away from PUA towards vague "social skills", and Nick left.
What do you expect? RSD made millions by marketing PUA to gullible nerds. They were charged thousands of dollars for bootcamps, plus DVD's and other materials. But they had little skill and a limited repertoire. So they just threw shit against the wall to see what stuck. Here is a summary of their indefensible shit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/9k...he_worlds/
If the Japanese incident were an isolated incident, they could have just apologized and disowned Julien. But RSD had no core principles and could not defend the indefensible. The PUA market was saturated and RSD was exposed as a bunch of idiots, so they collapsed.