Living In The Age of Profiles: How Everyone Became an Incel and a Sex Worker

 How Everyone Became an Incel and a Sex Worker

We are all incels now, and we are all sex workers. Many men on this corner of the internet have come to this conclusion, and soon this will become mainstream thought. One of the concepts we talk about in blackpill spaces is hypercompetition. Hypercompetition is a fundamental feature of the digital and global economy we live in. Lower barriers to entry and new technologies have completed destroyed the competitive advantages of most firms. Incels have noted this phenomenon in regards to dating apps, where most men cannot get a date to save their lives, and the OnlyFans economy where men are deemed so unattractive, they must pay for the simulacrum of female affection. This has resulted in mass sexlessness and virginity among Zoomer men.

This is the material condition for young men, but the blackpill is not just about material conditions. Nobody is technically an incel, as an incel could always pay a prostitute. The blackpill is ultimately about competition. The Chinese have a term called involution, which describes young people checking out and giving up on working. Involution roughly translates to "lying flat", that sounds a lot like LDAR to me.

Dating apps do not represent romance, and are designed to be as ineffective and inefficient as possible to keep you on the dating apps as long as possible, so they can take your monthly subscription or they can show you ads. Dating apps have turned romance into a market, where your romantic partners are a vehicle to stroke your ego and entertain you for a short period of time. Ruthlessly using and discarding your sexual partners is the ideal, and those who lack the skills to do so are to be mocked. Sex is used as a measure of human worth. That is Incel Ideology, and it is mainstream thinking. Everyone is an incel, some of us have figured out how to have sex. Incels have accurately accessed that pair bonding and long-term relationships have imploded, and people seem to be chasing the most attractive partners to use as a luxury product to make other people jealous, with no intention of actually settling down. The difference between self identified incels and the normies who passively support these things, is that incels want this to stop. While their motivations may be that they cannot effectively navigate this dating environment, they are broadly correct in their assessment and solutions to the problems.

The Trouble with Profiles

We got to this point largely by digitizing our social interactions. Not having social media in this day and age is impossible if you want to live in society. Social media allows you to reach large audiences, and makes forming communities with like minded individuals. However, one of the pitfalls of social media is that it works under a power law, and makes everyone's status legible. Very few people are going to gain significant clout off their online presence, and the one's that fail will have quantifiable evidence of their irrelevance. Their irrelevance will be legible to everyone that visits their profile. Let's look at how this might effect a job seeker.

Employers have been complaining about a skills gap for the last two decades, but this is largely baloney. In a market economy wages would rise to convince workers to learn those skills, or to pull people with those skills out of retirement. The two graphs above paint a different picture about hypercompetition and profiles. The top graph shows us an insane increase in the amount of applications a job posting would receive. Keep in mind that this is the average of jobs of any skill level. Entry level positions should have much more competition. It is unreasonable to expect an employer to look through every resume, so they employ an automated applicant tracking system to help with the burden. The ATS does this by scanning the resumes for certain keywords and throwing out resumes that do not contain them. Most resumes are removed in this way, and many people who could perform the functions of the job are excluded.

To succeed in this market, you need to be able to construct a profile that is extremely attractive to a broad range of people who do not know you in real life. If employers and women can reject large portions of the population for mostly superficial and irrelevant reasons, the solution to this is to do something similar to the A/B testing Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube use on their ads. A dating profile or a resume is essentially a personal ad in digital format. Everyone who puts out digital ads engages in A/B testing, because that is the only way to successful. You must modify the text, style, and images you use on your profile to attract AND maintain relationships. 

Attractive profiles are equally important to the maintenance of personal relationships as they are to forming them. If you have an unattractive profile, the profiles you are connected to are going to take a hit as well. This can be observed when someone is being cancelled for a minor social faux pas. Everyone is expected to pile in on the offending person/profile and their friends are more likely to cut them out of their social lives then come to their defense. A huge part of why cancelling someone is so effective, is because profiles are for less durable than people's authenticate character. Before the internet, if someone became famous for their indiscretions, you would need to be a very famous person who did it in public or you would have had to have committed a serious crime. Today anyone can be on the front page of twitter and the information bottleneck that was the news has been destroyed. Everyone must think like a PR representative.

This way of identifying with and interacting with profiles is known as profilicity This is the new way human beings interact with eachother, profilicity is crowding out sincerity. The crux of profilicty is observing something through the lens of the "general peer". This is a 2nd order observation. An employer not only wants you to be able to do the job, but wants you social media presence to be anodyne enough that the "general peer" won't find it offensive. The girl you swiped right on doesn't just want you to be a caring, reasonably attractive person, she wants to be able to show you off on her Instagram. Everyone has, for all intents and purposes, become a brand. This is the core issue "incels" deal with. The skills needed to present yourself that way and interact that way are overrepresented in sociopathic people, but it is impossible to function in this world without these skills. It is doing something terrible to the souls of the people who engage in it, similar to the way a prostitute's soul in corrupted by exploiting vunerable men.

"Social media platforms make you perform 

in public for approval, but LinkedIn is among

 the worst because it makes you perform in

 public for money. In that sense, it's only 

cousin is only fans" 

 Naval Ravikant.

Tying real identity to our digital profiles has forced everyone to commodify themselves in the most crass way possible. They overshare details of their lives in a way that is pornographic. Writing a story about your personal trauma for the world to see and monetizing it with ads, whether the trauma is the loss of a loved one or a crime committed against you, cheapens it. Interacting with people in this way is extremely alienating. We are all incels now. We are all sex workers now.