Roosh V

If you take a look back at the history of man, you will not find one instance where an average woman’s advice about dating or relationships was better than an average man’s'. Daryush Valizadeh (known by his Internet alias Roosh Vörek or Roosh V) is an American Christian fundamentalist, antisemite, manosphere denizen, misogynist, rape advocate (as well as a possible rapist himself if his accounts in his books are to be believed), and former pick-up artist and sex tourist (who possibly raped people). Roosh runs a number of clickbaity websites that make up some of the darkest corners of the manosphere, including his personal blog RooshV, the repugnant (and now dead, with nothing of value being lost) Return of Kings, and the now-defunct pro-Gamergate and anti-"SJW" Reaxxion.

He's one of those people who, when you think he can't possibly sink deeper into the scum-bucket, gleefully proves you wrong. His evolution from greasy douche to wannabe guru to "Taliban-lite" to conspiracy theory-spouting Jesus freak is evidence of that. He was once referred to as "the most-hated man on the Internet", and while that is stretching it (he's not nearly famous enough), he is quite possibly the creepiest.

In 2019, Roosh V Forum went through a major change in which Roosh shuttered the travel and game sections, which had covered tourism and pickup, and prohibited discussion of "fornication". The impetus for this was that he had been kicked out of a number of services such as PayPal, Disqus, and Airbnb that had enabled him to receive donations, host discussions, and find affordable housing, respectively. The momentum behind his book, Game, which had sold well during its first few days on Amazon, was also blunted when HuffPost began making inquiries with Amazon, resulting in their removing the book's listing from the site. Around the same time, by his own account, his long-term relationship failed as he discovered his girlfriend had cheated on him, and he also started getting barred from an increasing number of countries. Searching for answers, he turned to mushrooms.

The combination of factors led him to return to the United States and move back in with his mother, who is a devout Armenian Orthodox Christian. As he was going to need to get along with her and accompany her to church, and as the manosphere was imploding anyway under the pressure of deplatforming, it seemed appropriate and convenient to convert to Christianity and remove from his sites material that could be considered objectionable. This included unpublishing some books and, according to Roosh, removing some YouTube videos and articles from Return of Kings that encouraged behavior by which a man could "sacrifice his salvation." Other manosphere figures opted to either let their sites go dormant (as in the case of Illimitable Men), sometimes after losing momentum due to deplatforming (as in the case of Chateau Heartiste), or follow Roosh's lead by taking down their content as well and announcing their conversion (as in the case of Victor Pride).

In December 2017, he was banned from entering the UK by

"Activism"
On using Alinsky tactics to beat feminism, Roosh sure studied a lot of them. But he mostly follows the tactics of Mao Zedong. Besides being, of course, a mass-murdering dictator whose body count puts him in the league of the likes of Adolf Hitler, Mao was a notorious womanizer, spreader of sexually transmitted disease that he knew he had yet deliberately refused to treat, and unashamed predator of teenage girls, since he apparently "followed Chinese emperors in thinking sex with young women would keep him young and potent." In, short Mao was evil because bad guys are evil. You can probably see why your modern misogynists would feel a bit of kinship.

He has also endorsed the Unabomber because of course he did. If he hates technology so much, why doesn't he fuck off the internet?

Rape
Roosh's creepocity is best confirmed by his enthusiastic proposal to make rape legal on private property. He argued for this view, at length, in his essay, "How to Stop Rape":

Roosh has since asserted that he was "joking". However, he still blames the victims of rape:

Racism
In 2013 Roosh tweeted "How far lost is Western society if fat, ugly Indian cunt @nitashatiku has a platform to denounce a productive, intelligent white man?" In 2015, Roosh began promoting Kevin MacDonald's anti-Semitic books via an article entitled "The Damaging Effects Of Jewish Intellectualism And Activism On Western Culture". Despite this, many neo-Nazis still view him with suspicion because he is of Armenian and Iranian descent, and therefore not really white, in their view. Extra irony points to anyone that points out that the Aryans are from Iran…

He has also allowed the outlandishly racist "anthropology" woo of Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard to be promoted on his site Return of Kings.

Religion and Anti-Semitism
Following his conversion, Roosh fell in with one E. Michael Jones, a self-proclaimed theologian whose virulent anti-Semitism has earned him scorn from even other white nationalist leaders.

Unsurprisingly, Roosh quickly integrated his newfound religious fanaticism and hatred of the "Christ-killers" into his other bigotries, going so far as to claim that COVID-19 was sent by God to punish globalists and sinners. Said anti-Semitism also ended up getting him banned from YouTube following a rant in which he blamed the Jews for (among other things) trying to use Bratz dolls to groom young girls for prostitution. He immediately accused YouTube of religious persecution, happily accepting Andrew Anglin's offer of support.

On September 1st 2020, Roosh shared a TruNews video in which participants called Antifa a violent organization founded by Jews in the 1930s, called it a terrorist organization, and claimed that it is still funded by Jews to this day.

Public events
As hard as it may seem to believe, Roosh does occasionally emerge from his mother's basement.

Dr. Oz
Roosh had a piss-poor performance on the Dr. Oz show, where he was invited as the "leader of the international fat shaming movement". Even redditors on /r/theredpill agreed that their hero was a closet beta male had done badly.

Montreal
Montreal's mayor condemned his visit to Canada for the purposes of giving a talk because he gives talks, apparently. He personally began to attack Montrealer and feminist Aurelie Nix for her part in the cancellation of his event as well as the anti-rape-culture protest that later took place. He and his followers sent death and rape threats to Nix as an attempt to pressure and scare her. Nix pressed charges against Roosh and later published an account of her experiences as well as many threats she received on her blog A Woman on The Internet.

Alcohol
I am in the middle of the fight of my life in Canada right now, all because I decided to hold 2 speeches, 2 men's events that are small, between 30 and 50 people. I've had, I've started in Montreal, where the entire establishment there came out against me, the media came out against me, uh, the mayor did, feminist organizations came out against me, and they frothed up these feminists on the ground, Social Justice Warriors, and they got my original venue cancelled, I didn't back down, I found another one, I successfully held the event, and what do they do? They hunt me down on the streets of Montreal like a dog, throw beers at me, and they wanted to do more, but thankfully I escaped and kept myself safe. Roosh also had a drink thrown in his face by a woman who recognized him (and whom he was trying to pick-up) at a local bar; two friends of the woman then also threw beers at Roosh, and patrons of the bar finally chased him down the street. He claims to have filed a police report afterwards. Paul Elam spoke in support of Roosh, saying that he would have been justified in considering that an act of attempted murder and retaliating with lethal force.

Islamophobia
As an explanation for this reaction, Roosh picked Islamophobia:

[Canadians] are losing their minds over here, I have to hire bodyguards now. If you wanna ask why that is, look at me: do I look white to you? [...] My parents are from the Middle East. My parents are from the Middle East. My dad is from Iran. He is a Shiite Muslim man. I grew up with Muslim beliefs. where do you think all my views come from? Where do you think my ideas on patriarchy and masculinity come from? Where do you think my ideas that men should be strong and women should submit come from? Where do you think all that comes from? From thin air? No. It's from being by a conservative, honorable, respectful Muslim man. All the views that I present on sex, women, and men are basically a light version of Islam. Of how Islam does family values. [....] I'm basically introducing traditional Islamic values, traditional Islamic family into a Western audience, because these values are good for women and men. But I'm being attacked in Canada, so what does that tell you? That the Canadian establishment is vehemently Islamophobic. There is no other logical explanation. 'Cuz if you have an explanation why in Canada the entire establishment is coming out against me [...] but everywhere else is cool, then I'd like to hear it.

Perhaps Roosh has never Googled "feminism" or "percent of Canadians who support legal rape". Even more ironic is Roosh's later endorsement of Donald Trump.

Journalism
Roosh thinks that the evil Liberal Media conspiracy uses him as a scapegoat:

On the bright side, he thinks he might be able to get some sex out of this:

Note not only how he "masterfully" puts money and women in the same category of "trade OBJECTS", but also in that, while giving them the same category, he prioritizes money over women, even if in the same category.

Books
Roosh has self-published fourteen nausea-inducing ego-stroking pamphlets sex tourist 'advice books' (such as Bang Colombia: Textbook On How To Sleep With Colombian Women and Bang Lithuania: How To Sleep With Lithuanian Women In Lithuania and Don't Bang Denmark: How To Sleep With Danish Women In Denmark (If You Must)). These books have faced criticism from the majority of the countries that they focus on, and publications in Norway, Lithuania, Colombia, Denmark, Poland, and Iceland find him as revolting as we do. An Icelandic organization even labelled Bang Iceland a "rape guide." Mercifully, they are all out of print ever since his conversion, when God told Roosh to stop encouraging men to sin (as opposed to encouraging them to rape). It is noticeable that he shows regret over allowing his books to lead men's souls astray, yet displays no such remorse to the women he seduced and raped.

Most recently he has put out a book entitled Free Speech Isn't Free, which rather than cover his usual fare of sex-centric travel guide, consists of him complaining about people who don't agree with him and fearmongering about how the PC police are going to take away your right to be a hateful ass if you're a straight white man like him.

Accusations of rape
Many people have accused Roosh of rape based on the things he has written in his own books or blogs. In Bang Iceland, he says:

On an account with another Icelandic woman, he says:

In Bang Poland, he says:

And in Bang Ukraine, he says:

In 30 Bangs, he says:

On February 14, 2016, blogger and author S. Jane Gari revealed that a person had contacted her, claiming to be an Icelandic woman and accusing Roosh V of raping her. This woman also told the blogger that she was in contact with two other women from Poland who had very similar stories. When the blogger got asked if she can be sure that the alleged woman isn't just a rival PUA company that wants to take down Roosh, she replied "that would suck. I hope that's not the case. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. I like to believe good will triumph." It's unclear if the blogger has verified the identity of the accuser, or if it's just an anonymous person behind an email account. Roosh subsequently denied the allegation, and his lawyer says that, in order to find out the identity of the accuser, he is willing to take legal measures to make Gari give up information. According to the lawyer, Roosh will, when the accuser is found, sue him or her for defamation. On February 23rd, Roosh blogged that he's in mediation with Gari, and added a "Postscript: Further developments have transpired and will be shared soon"

Return of Kings
The Return of Kings blog itself was a great example of Poe's Law in action, as the blog has published several (more or less obvious) troll submissions, which then often end up endorsed and discussed by manosphere idiots luminaries in dead earnest.

The website was unabashedly homophobic and transphobic,  as well as pretty much useless for dating advice. Like most PUA blogs, it mostly functioned as a place where men could openly berate women and be celebrated for it.

Since the election of Donald Trump (of whom Roosh greatly supported and admired), Return of Kings began turning more and more into the Daily Stormer as opposed to just a misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic swamp. This eventually started to cause issues for them, such as when commenting platform Disqus emailed Roosh to notify him that they would no longer be supporting Return of Kings due to violations of terms of service on October 17, 2017. On February 27, 2018, RooshV/Return of Kings alongside Paul Elam's A Voice for Men were officially added to the SPLC Hate Groups list under a new category "Male Supremacy".

Roosh shut Return of Kings down in October 2018, claiming that low revenue and burnout had caused him to lose interest in maintaining the site. In reality, it's much more likely that the true culprits are him being banned from PayPal and Disqus, along with the fact that he simply isn't popular anymore even among his fellow scumbags.

Reaxxion
Although he admits that he hasn't seriously played any video games since 2000, Roosh decided to create a gaming website inspired by the ethical journalism anti-feminist/anti-social justice movement Gamergate (exploiting gamers for his own enrichment? sounds very familiar, and very ethical). Called Reaxxion, the site was intended as a place for and by heterosexual men to escape all the horrible SJW oppression found on other gaming websites. But to prove that it wasn't a haven for sexist bigots, the page gladly welcomed comments from "homosexuals or attractive women." However, in one case someone submitted an old John Birch Society propaganda piece and replaced every instance of "John Birch Society" with "Gamergate" and "communist" with "SJW".

After just 9 months of operation, Roosh announced he was shutting the website down because it didn't attract enough traffic to sustain itself financially. It's almost as if a disorganised fringe movement united only by hatred, especially one within a community the creator hasn't been part of for donkey's years, is a terrible target audience for a website.

Kings Wiki
Kings Wiki a.k.a. "alt-right edgelord wikipedia" is Roosh's fledging "neomasculinist encyclopedia" that stands for "Masculinity and Nationalism". The website already has some lovely quotes:

American women manages to be sexist, racist, and wrong all at once:

Branch swinging reminds males that females see them as nothing but temporary sex-givers:

Femininity reminds women to obey, dammit!

Feminists explains why feminists are good lays (but are going to destroy America!):

The wiki also features absolutely-necessary articles on shampoo and female hair length, the latter of which is considered one of the wiki's most developed articles.

Due to ideological differences, in early July 2017, Roosh banned Kings Wiki's co-founder, Jean Valjean, from Roosh V Forum, and redirected the KingsWiki.com domain to ReturnOfKings.com. Valjean broke away from the Kings Media conglomerate, re-branding the project as Male Monarchs Wiki.