An Influencer has been denied his request for free tickets to a festival and was promptly banned altogether due to his red-pilled content.
The UK-based music festival Forbidden Forrest banned a red-pill influencer from attending after their team asked for free tickets – and fans love it.
Request Denied
Forbidden Forrest is a music festival that will take place in June this year in Grantham, UK. On March 18, the festival's Instagram page posted a screenshot of an e-mail they had received from an unnamed influencer's team asking for free "Artist Passes" to the festival.
Please can I request some Artist Passes for international streamer *** to attend the festival. We need to request Artist passes over general guestlist as *** will need to be able [to get in] safe areas away from crowds for safety due to his popularity.
They also requested two photography and film passes for the crew.
Forbidden Forest instantly declined due to the nature of the creator's content.
Our festival is a space for everyone to feel welcome and safe, and if we’re being honest, this is the opposite of what *** puts out online. Instead, we ask *** not to attend Forbidden Forest at all.
The caption of the post reads "We love working with creators. Not this one, though. Better luck next time." Nice one.
The Red Pill
The name of the influencer in question has been blacked out by Forbidden Forest in its post. However, the e-mail reveals that they were in the documentary "Inside the Manosphere" by Louis Theroux – a documentary about the world of red-pill influencers and content. It featured several prominent figures in the red-pill sphere such as Marlon Gaines, Sneako, and HSTikkyTokky.
The term "red-pill" is originally inspired by The Matrix's red pill. Now it describes an internet niche that defines itself with an anti-feminist and hyper-masculine rhetoric. In online communities, the term is used by men's rights activists, "pick-up artists," and incels (involuntary celibates) who believe they have discovered the "truth" about gender relations and society. Their core claims often include the assertion that society has been taken over by feminism, which oppresses men, the conviction that they have access to hidden knowledge about social dynamics that is kept from the general public, and the assumption that women are inherently only interested in dominant, high-status "alpha males". This is what Forbidden Forest does not want to support.
Here is the trailer to Louis Theroux's documentary.
Who Is It?
People are now guessing at who the influencer behind this email could be. It has to be someone that appeared in said documentary. And one other thing hints at one specific person, who reportedly posted:
Can’t go to an event in the UK. So upset. What am I going to do now?
None other than Harrison Sullivan aka HSTikkyTokky. He is known for making red-pilled content, giving dubious financial advice, having inflammatory views on gender and sexuality, and his misogynistic, homophobic and anti-semitic views.
It is not confirmed whether it was really him and his team behind that e-mail or not – but people seem to be pretty sure and celebrate Forbidden Forest for the denial. "Incredible, thank you for standing up for what’s right", one person comments. "Respect for standing on your values", another writes. The festival is supposed to be a safe space and people who regard others as inferior due to their gender, race or sexuality make it unsafe and uncomfortable for others. Whoever it was, any of the people featured in the documentary probably would have been denied and people think they deserve it.
