No young man wakes up one morning and decides to hate women. Here's what I keep saying  to every parent, every teacher, every person who knows a young man who has been influenced by the manosphere or its fringe dwellers, asks me “ how does that even happen” — well it doesn't happen the way you think it does. There is no single moment. No bad video that flips a switch. No influencer who reaches through a screen and rewires a boy's brain in an afternoon. It's quieter than tha

CONTENT WARNING:  This article discusses a game that references child sexual exploitation and may be distressing to survivors of abuse. It contains frank discussion of how real-world criminal cases are being turned into entertainment for adolescents. A game is circulating among young people called Five Nights at Epstein's . It's being shared in group chats, traded between friends, and accessed on platforms where user-generated content slips past filters. This is not a rumour

A fourteen-year-old takes a screenshot of a classmate's Instagram photo, runs it through a free AI app, and generates a fake sexual image. They share it in a group chat. A few mates laugh. Someone screenshots it. Someone forwards it. By lunchtime, it has reached people the original sender has never met. The fourteen-year-old thinks it's a joke. Under new amendments to the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), effective 16 February 2026, it is a criminal offence. And the penalties are not sm