Gay Accusations And Leaked Underage Photos Are Splitting The Manosphere In Two
When documentarian Louis Theroux decided to go Inside The Manosphere for Netflix, drama was more or less guaranteed. What followed the film’s release, though, went well beyond the expected complaints.
What the documentary stirred up
Louis Theroux: Inside The Manosphere profiles a group of male online influencers known for homophobia, misogyny, red-pill philosophy, and hyper-masculine posturing. The red-pill worldview, a term borrowed from the 1999 film The Matrix, frames feminism as a societal deception that men need to “wake up” to. Among the documentary’s subjects is Sneako, the online alias of 27-year-old Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy, who appears primarily ranting about Sam Smith being a “trans satanist.”
Andrew Tate, arguably the manosphere’s most well-known figure, declined to appear. That didn’t stop him from dominating the conversation after it dropped.
Tate fires the first shot
On 10 March 2026, Tate implied during a livestream that a former associate was secretly gay. Without naming Sneako directly, he claimed the person had asked him, “Isn’t it normal just to try new things? Don’t you think it is normal to be curious? How do you know if you are really gay or not unless you’ve tried being gay?” Tate alleged the person was propositioning him, and that their continued fixation on him stems from “a homosexual rage that is suppressed.”
Pro-Tate accounts then started circulating old clips. In one resurfaced stream, Sneako said that at 14, he had thought he was gay, had watched gay adult films, visited a gay nightclub, and concluded it wasn’t for him.
SNEAKO says Andrew Tate will try to smear him by bringing up leaked photos from when he was 17, and old Burberry/Nike modeling pictures to portray him as gay instead of addressing his anti-war stance, calling it “character assassination,” while also saying he doesn’t support… pic.twitter.com/ySg2ix81ou
— SNEAKO UPDATES (@Sneak0o) March 10, 2026
The underage photos and why sharing them is a crime
Things escalated when explicit photos of Sneako began spreading online. He responded by saying most were fabricated, others were from modelling shoots for Nike and Burberry, and that some were private images he had sent to a girlfriend when he was 17. As a minor at the time, the distribution of those images is a serious legal matter. Sneako addressed it, “You’re going to tell your clippers to post underage pictures of me? One, that is a crime, and two, half of those things are fake.”
He’s right. Distributing intimate images of a minor is a criminal offence in most jurisdictions, full stop.
Nick Fuentes offers the world’s worst defence
Far-right commentator Nick Fuentes weighed in on Sneako’s behalf, though perhaps not helpfully. “If anything, that makes him less gay because he sort of tried it out and realised it wasn’t for him, which is actually less gay than maybe a person that never does that,” Fuentes reasoned.
Good one, Nick.
The irony here is hard to miss
At DNA, we’ve watched these figures use LGBTQIA+ identity as a weapon for years. In 2023, Sneako defended fans at a live event who were shouting “all gays should die” and “fuck gays,” deflecting responsibility by saying pride flags in classrooms were to blame. Now his own allies are using “gay” as the ultimate attack against him.
That tells you everything. For these figures, homophobia was never a principled position. It was always just ammunition.
