The Powerful Roar of 30 Men Letting Go Under a Waterfall

About

The Powerful Roar of 30 Men Letting Go Under a Waterfall is a viral video of 30 men standing under a waterfall and screaming as part of a therapeutic healing retreat hosted by Amend Movement. The video was posted to TikTok and Instagram in late July 2023 and went viral, inspiring some viewers to mock the video, assuming it was related to the alpha-male and manosphere lifestyle. Some of the most viral responses to the video make instead of going to therapy jokes.

Origin

On July 25th, 2023, the amend_movement Instagram^[1] page, a social media page used to promote the Amend Movement^[2] (a life coaching and retreat program for both men and women to help people with "overcoming generational trauma, releasing limiting beliefs, and rewriting the narrative of what it means to be strong in today's society"), posted a video captioned, "The powerful roar of 30 men letting go under a waterfall." The video shows a group of men standing in a pool of water under a waterfall and screaming. It garnered over 21,400 likes in six days. On July 29th, it was posted to the @amend_movement TikTok^[3] page, garnering over 2 million views in three days (shown below).

Spread

The video gained viral spread over the following days, inspiring numerous critical reactions from social media users. On July 30th, 2023, the video was posted to the /r/h3h3productions subreddit^[4] under the title, "anyone else seeing these alpha male training camps on tiktok? 😭," garnering over 620 upvotes in two days. That same day, Twitter^[5] user @Cespex posted the video, writing, "this misogynist male pipeline shit is getting so fucking weird bruh 😭😭😭," garnering over 4,000 likes in two days (shown below).

On July 31st, TikToker^[6] @bonniedoes posted a video reaction using the content as an example of "men will do anything but go to therapy," garnering over 235,000 views in a day (shown below, left). One of the top commenters, TikToker @livingabortion, responded, "This is part of a therapy program. People really just out here hating on dudes expressing anything and calling it feminism." On the same day, TikToker^[7] @pancakehuffer2000 posted a reaction to the video, garnering over 632,000 views in a day (shown below, right).

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