By Dylan Valley
British-American journalist and filmmaker Louis Theroux has a long history of documenting outlandish and extremist communities, from the Westboro Baptist Church in The Most Hated Family In America to The Settlers in the West Bank.
His deadpan, nerdish delivery, in contrast to his interviewees’ more animated behaviour, has become a signature style. The humour in these awkward scenarios makes him a bit of a legend in the internet era.
He gave South Africa one of its earliest memes when he interviewed a gangster for his documentary Law and Disorder in Johannesburg.
With a new documentary, Inside The Manosphere, on Netflix, Theroux is back. And this time he takes on possibly one of the most troubling cultural formations of the internet era: the online “manosphere”. This misogynist movement of male influencers and broadcasters has gone from the margins to the mainstream, gaining followers,
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