manfluencer en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈmænflu.ənsə(ɹ)/
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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A manosphere influencer.
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:“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 2024:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| menfluencer | alternative, rare | lexicographic | |
| manfluencers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |