Rune Wuff: "I'm getting flashbacks to the Pick-Up Artist community/scam, because this is what you'd get if you took their ideas and wrote them in bullet points. The method of placing nervous virgin males in a room full of attractive women who act like their awkward advances are working is the same." / Blueviewer

Rune Wuff@runewuff.bsky.social·2026-09-27T19:00:55.106Z

I'm getting flashbacks to the Pick-Up Artist community/scam, because this is what you'd get if you took their ideas and wrote them in bullet points. The method of placing nervous virgin males in a room full of attractive women who act like their awkward advances are working is the same.

Rune Wuff@runewuff.bsky.social·2026-09-27T19:07:40.883Z #

Given how interconnected the tech scene is, I am now curious if some of the OG Pick-Up Artists were connected somehow, because this is EXACTLY like what they were doing before, just refined to appeal to men in Silicon Valley.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com·2026-09-27T19:08:45.892Z #

I think a lot of these people were into the older PUA culture, yes