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Hacking the Manosphere
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Imagine it's Thursday, 6 pm. School is over and you still have the whole winter to get through until life resumes. Even though the plates are piling up next to your bed and you feel incredibly bad, you don't manage to do anything. Why would you? Nobody comes to visit you anyway. And everything overwhelms you. What's left but time in bed?
So, like everyone else your age, you open TikTok.
And it is precisely there, on TikTok, that the interventionist project “MYKE” by onlinetheater.live takes place. It's about masculinities. It's about masculinism on TikTok. And it's about young men who become radicalised.
And about how it's all connected. The radio play that has now been created with Deutschlandfunk Kultur is a deep dive into the manosphere.
onlinetheater.live wants to prevent radicalisation and to this end infiltrated anti-feminist content bubbles on TikTok in the summer of 2024 with a specially developed video campaign. Between dating tips, self-optimisation marketing and fantasies of male supremacy, the team wove in counter-narratives to the prevailing image of men and achieved almost four million views and 200,000 likes in this bubble!
The radio play is based on the co-production “MYKE – Hacking the Manosphere” which was presented at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in 2024.
Date
- Fri 11.7.202517:00
Cast
A radio play by: onlinetheater.live / Voices: Kathi Kraft (sie), Luzia Oppermann (sie), Caspar Weimann (er/sie/they), Davíd Gaviria (er), Lukas Lüdeking (er), David Zico (er) / Radio play production: Johan Olsson (er) / Studio: Loumi Records / Former team members “Myke - Hacking the Manosphere” (2024): Toni Minge (er), Dilan Aytac (sie), Mara Nedelcu (sie)
Credits
“Hacking the Manosphere“ is based on the project “Myke - Hacking the Manosphere” (2024). Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, FFT Düsseldorf, Kleintheater Luzern. Funded by: Kulturstiftung des Bundes aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
