Let me interject.
I remember reading Neil Strauss book about Game and in it Strauss observed that Owen Cook/Tyler Durden - still a Mystery disciple at the time - very early on signaled he was basically a sociopath who enjoyed the 'social manipulation' and 'social dynamics game' (more normie term would be 'working the room') much more than being with women, securing phone numbers, kisses or taking them home.
Yes Owen Cook (Tyler's real name) was an
approach coach for Mystery (Erik Von Markovik) and a shill to try and legitimise an illegal and illegitimate activity that is cold approach. The slippery relationship between Master and Student can be seen in this classic video from the early 2000s discussing the supposed activity of dressing like a faggot "rockstar peacocking" in attracting women. Nothing to do with the fact Mystery was a 6 foot 4 tall, good looking face and jawline chadlite.
He also was relatively stylish for a late 90s early 2000s male when the post grunge rock look was popular with chicks.
These courses were called "Social Dynamics" and were about making money by parasiting off of easily influenced and therefore easily scammed students in a pre-redpill world.
Strange to see the trajectories of all the early 2000s who founded the modern PUA movement, all of them have conmen type personalities and grifts. Especially after the initial boom, those little things of value PUA added to seduction tactics available to low tier men very soon became common wisdom among men --- and by the late 2000s most knew about it.
The only boom were the puas raking in money and having arm candy girlfriends, holding out for a shopping spree. When the money ran out so did alll these "gurus" girlfriends with some high profile divorces, alimony payments
RooshV reached middle age and discovered that PUA in foreign countries becomes pathetic at a certain age, and pivoted(?) or converted to being a religious extremist and political commentator. He might start his own Christian cult soon.
Roosh V is was a sex tourist who claimed to be rich and successful, until "his car" turned out to a Hertz hire car with the company sticker name on it.
Tyler Durden tried to keep RSD while the PUA marketplace started to become more competitive.
Tyler was successful as he sold relatively affordable DVD sets to Blue Collar and horny student males with tall tales and lies exaggerating his success with women for $300. Tyler would leave bootcamps and student suicide missions to his jester sub coaches to do all the dirty work on the frontline in nightclubs.
The reason Neil Strauss and Mystery priced themselves out of the market was to create a barrier so only wealthy men who lived in major cities, rather than low status men, could hand over $10,000 for the Mind of Mystery or $3,779 for Strauss' Annihilation Method DVD set. These weren't designed for poor men, due to the bluepill that money is compensation for being an entry to the job market Chad.
Mystery semi-retired off the gigantic amounts of money he made off being face of the PUA movement in the 2000s, tried to come back and just sort of disappeared.
Incorrect, Mystery ended up broke and couch surfing at (ex-pua training) Beckster Pua's after being ripped off by former business partners and taken to court over slander, copyright infringement and breach of contractual duties. His prime VH1 show a lot of his earnings went to Nick Savoy (love systems) to pay off his legal debts.
Mystery tried relaunching in the UK with another incompetent pua (Discovery of Venusian Arts) but that too fell apart and Discovery is going it alone now.
Neil Strauss became rich from his book, seminars and speaking engagements, became a star author, statusmaxxed, no longer needed PUA to fuck foids, and now runs a higher level multi level marketing scheme branded as a mental health group to con older, more successful men out of money.
Just have status and fuck a Russian bride game more like. Strauss went to an elite Jewish alumni College (Vassar) and an elite Jewish Ivy League University (Columbia University). He got the rights to write best selling biographies for rockstars (Motley Crue and Marilyn Manson) and pornstars (Jenna Jameson) with his Rolling Stone press pass- which is how he hooked up with confirmed girlfriends. Although with his height and looks these never lasted though.
Strauss was established long before the book "The Game's" release of which took place between 1998-2003 during writing said rock autobiographies and meeting Lisa Leveridge while her band hobknobbed with Motley Crue.
