Not having watched any of these videos, it's kind of hilarious to me that this debate continues to rage on two decades after it began.
You have guys claiming it's real or partly real, including experienced guys who know what they're talking about.
You have guys claiming it's obviously staged, including experienced guys who know what they're talking about.
Seems like one of those situations where you'd have to be in the room with the guy watching it go down end-to-end to ever really know for sure.
Otherwise, your confirmation bias is simply going to get the better of you.
I will say, if the method seems good enough to be believable, it is probably executable, whether it's real or staged (seems like this was
@Skills's point in an earlier post in this thread as well).
Same way you can take inspiration from Hollywood films and model yourself after seducers who are fabrications of writers, directors, and actors.
If it looks like it should work, you can probably make it work, with enough field testing and calibration. Whether or not the original production was real or staged...
Well, assuming you understand women and seduction enough to have a good radar for "what should work", that is...
Chase