These products exist to collect data to train models. Every other function they perform is secondary.
People are paying hundreds for these, and then they're paying the companies with their data, over and over again. Never before has an industry been able to have such spin on a product.
It's effectively paying a company for the ability to give them unpaid labor.
Absolutely correct, in my view. "Fear of judgment and a low sense of self worth" is also spot on.
Rogan gave national voice to plenty of people who regularly used the term "snowflake" to describe what they saw as weak people who like to complain (I'm speaking from memory here and generalizing; Rogan probably has also used this term himself, but I'm not searching transcripts, so take all this with a grain of salt). By this logic, a "snowflake" is someone who is perceived as weak because they let so much affect them emotionally.
But these toxic men are "snowflakes" in every sense of the term. They go on Joe Rogan to complain about trans people, or gay rights, or "the war on Christmas", or the perceived persecution of "alpha males", or any number of other issues. Some guests are only famous because they complain about such things.
So what is the difference between a toxic "alpha male" on Joe Rogan and one of the "snowflakes" they like to complain about? Absolutely nothing, except that the toxic men believe that anger doesn't count as an emotion, so their insecurity allows them to show it regularly.
(And to be clear, there is nothing wrong with showing emotion or caring deeply about something -- that's not a point I'm trying to make)