This thread is stuffed with brilliant information, but man, it's depressing to read. As an "ordinary" single guy (and probably right in the site's primary target demographic), I don't really care whether game has gotten easier or harder for the top 1% of professional seducers or what the situation is like in other countries... All I care about is that I, Average Joe, can't get results anymore.
See, that's what made this site such a valuable tool for me (and surely others) in the beginning. It just worked.
Coming fresh out of the vanilla social indoctrination world as a teenager, when I first discovered this site (and PUA), I didn't believe an ounce of it. It was polar opposite to all the "traditional" dating advice I got growing up -- the typical "chivalrous nice guy" attitude many of us millennial men were raised on. In fact, it was only because I was so shocked at the absurdity that I even tried it. I was so sure it wouldn't work, I made a bet with a guy friend that I would try it one night just to prove it was rubbish... And of course, I got a response from the girl I was interested in completely unlike any I had ever experienced prior: Raw sexual attraction.
Throughout most of my twenties, I would always come back to this site when I felt stuck or lost with women, or dating. No matter how much I didn't want to believe some of the perspectives I would find here -- no matter how much I didn't want to try a seemingly "disgusting" or "inappropriate" technique -- no matter how difficult it was for me to accept certain realities about the world -- I found time and time again, that if I applied the information I learned here in good faith, stripped away my emotions, and looked at the cold, hard facts, the results always came back positive.
It just worked.
That was, until about 3 years ago. What changed? Maybe it was just me. Maybe I just got older. Maybe it was any number of other things. But at the end of the day, I now come back to drawing board, seemingly back to square zero, asking the same question I asked a decade ago, when my lay count was less than three:
"How do I get a freaking date with a cute girl, get her to like me, have sex with me, and date me?"
And now, nothing seems to work.
It's really scary, if I'm being honest. Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever going to bang a woman I really find attractive again. If I'll ever have another LTR, a wife, kids... I google "Why can't I get a date" and the results from reddit or wherever are all guys saying things like "I'm 15 years old and still a virgin, what's wrong with me" or "I'm 35, live in my parents basement, never kissed a girl, what do I do". I don't read anything for "intermediate" level (theoretically?!) guys like me with >50 lay count who was laying 7/10 's three years ago, who now can't get ONE date worth going on.
It doesn't help that I look around and suddenly half the women I see are married or single mothers. I'm constantly asking myself, "Did I miss the boat?" And I'm feeling more and more pressure to just bite the bullet and lock down something lest I wind up alone for the next 30 years.
I see this new video content that Chase put out on the site for sale, but frankly, I don't feel much interest in paying to try it, because it still sounds too similar to all of these old, tested, now ineffectual -- for ME -- strategies. I feel like I need another paradigm shift. Another eye-opening revelation like the one this site first offered. Maybe I'm in the failing minority, and my position isn't relevant to the bigger picture. But I doubt it.
That's my two cents.
