Meanings
plural manfluencers · alternative rare menfluencer
- A manosphere influencer.
“These ‘manfluencers’ propagate a lot of the same kind of red-pill ideas, the same kind of theories from evolutionary psychology. […]
2024 August 14, Vittoria Elliott, “Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 28 Aug 20241 more example
as part of an emerging research agenda on the implications of responses to manfluencer culture in education settings, we suggest a particular focus on the extent, form and effect of school leadership’s responses to this phenomenon.
2023 December 17, Stephanie Wescott, Steven Roberts, Xuenan Zhao, “The problem of anti-feminist ‘manfluencer’ Andrew Tate in Australian schools: women teachers’ experiences of resurgent male supremacy”, in Gender and Education, volume 36, number 2, →DOI, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024, pages 167–182
Origin
Blend of man + influencer, equivalent to man + -fluencer. Lexicalized within academic parlance by Swiss-German political scientist Regula Stämpfli in a podcast 2022-12-31 shortly after Andrew Tate’s arrest in Romania, as recognized by herself, after marketing lingo dated to the Corona year 2020 to designate a counterpart to emerging female brand influencers.
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manfluencer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manfluencer
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