Mack Lamoureux wrote in Vice that "The MGTOW community's history is murky, but it was most likely birthed in the mid to early 2000s by two men who go by the online aliases of Solaris and Ragnar." Jie Liang Lin writes that while MGTOW's origins are unclear, it seems to have emerged from the red pill phenomenon, a metaphor used by antifeminists for "waking up to society's gynocentric evils".[1][8]