Apparently, some are mystified as to why there aren’t hundreds of incels and MRAs commenting here, after only 2 or 3 months of being back online. This seems an odd criticism, given the person making it has attracted a handful of regular commentators after 20 years of blogging that included multiple instances of being in the national and even international spotlight. But rather than embark on another rant against this strange blogger, I thought it would be interesting to look back at some historical stats relating to how ‘popular’ we used to be. The tool I used was Semrush, which is the the most widely used SEO tool online and is very accurate when it comes to traffic figures for sites.
TheAntifeminist.com
As you can see from the graph below, my site was getting over 1,000 visitors a day at its ‘peak’ around 2016. Not sure what happened in 2013, I possibly took it offline for a while – I can’t remember. Around 2018 I disabled comments and posted far less regularly and in 2020 Sabrina Vaz promised me a date if I let her OnlyFans account use the domain. The date never materialized, and I had to take her to court in the US in order to finally get it back.
Angry Harry
I’m very proud of the fact that Angry Harry – father of the men’s rights movement – linked here from his famous site. He also emailed me not long before his death in 2016, asking if I would like to meet up. Sadly, that never happened – something I’ll regret until my last days. As you can see from the graph of his traffic, he was still getting over 2K visitors a day in 2012, even though his had been ‘superseded’ by the likes of A Voice of Men, as well as YouTube and the like. Despite his family entrusting the weazel Paul Elam with the site, he allowed it to go offline in 2020 (the same year mine did, as it happens), and it has only recently been restored. I would imagine that around 2006-2010, Harry’s site was probably getting 5K visitors or even more.
Eivind Berge
Eivind Berge’s graph tells a different story. Despite being a minor celebrity in Norway for a time, his blog has never gotten more than a hundred visitors a day. There have been times when his posts did attract dozens of commentators, but the majority were usually trolls and haters after one of his articles went viral. Eivind typcially would be pleased with this, like Human-Stupidity believing that having 100 haters leaving vile messages on your blog was a sign of ‘success’. There does seem to have been a slight resurgence in his traffic, but it hasn’t translated into new commentators.
A Voice For Men
The decline of A Voice for Men was pretty spectacular after reaching around 40K visitors a day in 2016. All the men’s rights blogs sharply declined in audience after 2016 – being left behind by YouTube, Reddit, Twitter and other forms of social media. But the decline of A Voice for Men is still quite remarkable. I stopped going there myself by 2018, and in truth, stopped following mens’ rights in general around that time, so I’m not sure what happened to Paul Elam and his site.
Human-Stupidity
Human-Stupidity often had articles go ‘viral’ in the way Eivind’s sometimes did – normies would get angry or have a laugh at one and descend on his site to leave death threats and other vile comments. So although his traffic looks fairly impressive at one point (before the general 2016 drop off), it was pretty worthless traffic.
Men-Factor
Scarecrow’s blog was around as popular as Eivind’s, despite not having multiple spells of national and international attention. It was still attracting some daily traffic up until it was taken over by a troll and then taken down by Google.
So apparently all these sites lost traffic to Youtube. The sad thing is, a few years on Youtube started censoring the manosphere and cancelling accounts.
I’m more optimistic than most about MRAs, MGTOWs and the likes. They weren’t non-starters. I think they educated many men who went on to be other things like Incels.
Yes, there is more point of trying to do things via a blog for us, because a lot of our arguments and issues are not even allowed on most social media today – even on X.
A problem is that Google favors social media posts – especially Reddit and Quora – in its search rankings these days, and a blog like this will be hard to find. A lot of my traffic came from manosphere aggregators, but they have largely gone or don’t get much traffic themselves these days.
I doubt if this blog is ever going to be getting 1,000 hits a day again, or 20 diferent people posting comments under each article. We need to spread our message through social media, but in a little more subtle way.