The Zynternet is the new ‘alternative’ culture of dipshit dudes

Evidence

Welch’s fame was largely confined to the “barstool conservative” corners of the internet—what critic Max Read dubbed the “Zynternet,” after the Zyn nicotine pouches favored by its denizens. The Zynternet wasn’t explicitly ideological or anti-liberal, but its biggest personalities were “ ‘edgy,’ trollish, hedonistic, attention-seeking”—or, as Read put it more bluntly, “dipshits.” Podcasting had started as a left-leaning medium, but in an increasingly subliterate society, it became the perfect delivery system for dudes talking to dudes about dude stuff. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 816

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘Zynternet’ as the barstool-conservative manosphere-subculture whose hallmark is edgy-heuristic male talk.