The funny thing about Internet rabbit holes is that they very rarely contain rabbits. Rabbits, on the whole, are rather sweet, gentle, cuddly things. Rabbits do not, in my experience—and to take some examples absolutely at random—move abroad expressly to live under more relaxed sexual-assault laws, say, or threaten to choke any girlfriend who happens to answer back. But spend a couple of hours (or days, or months, or tens of thousands of dollars) sliding around the slippery warren that is Hustler’s University, and you’ll soon come face-to-face with a beast of an altogether less fluffy disposition.
The “university” in question (no relation to the magazine) is a virtual-learning community—only without much of a community and with hardly any learning. Conducted mainly via chat-room servers on Discord and Telegram message groups, the setup is perhaps best described as “Trump University for the TikTok era.” It’s a place where young men (it is always young men) can learn key skills in “Stocks, Crypto, E-commerce, Copywriting, and more,” in order to make tens of thousands of dollars per month online—all the while popping champagne bottles, holding guns, and wearing sunglasses in nightclubs near bored-looking girls, apparently.
