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Time
|June 12, 2023
TikTok's crusader for women
As long as men are terrible online, Drew Afualo will have work. "It's like the most aggressive form of job security," she tells TIME. "I'll never run out of content." The 27-year-old creator has amassed 8 million followers on TikTok by giving misogynistic men a taste of their own medicine. The way it usually works: a guy with an alpha-male demeanor uploads a video degrading women, Afualo's followers alert her to its presence, and she posts a video in response.
This story is from the June 12, 2023 edition of Time.
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