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• Just to be clear I am a huge Anthony Dream Johnson fan – his convention speakers have inspired most of the works on this blog – I’d say at least 80 percent of this blog could be credited to having the based of its ideas on Anthony’s conference . However its fall has been quite a remarkable one. The largest men’s self development conference is now at an end and I will discuss why in this blog post: 

Questionable Speaker Choice

John Anthony’s appearance on the 21 convention was the most “thumbs downed” speech ever of the convention’s history . With him proving to be the most polarising speaker ever in the convention’s history. John Anthony then made roast videos of Anthony Johnson followed by Anthony Johnson roasting him back for fucking a tranny. But John Anthony wasn’t the only questionable speaker in the panel , Arthur Kwon Lee was another oddball  – a heavily steroid using Korean Christian artist posting pro Nazi shit – in my opinion a complete loon bag   , Donovan Sharpe – a men’s self help coach who struggled really to date above a 2 himself , Jesse Lee Peterson who was against sex and hook up culture but is allegedly a closeted homosexual himself. There are countless more examples but you get the general gist – a lot of the speakers had weird ass past histories and weren’t particularly well received by the viewership .

A lack of Clear – Defined Direction

On the one hand there would speakers showing men how to rack up lays and on the other hand there would be a speaker critiquing hook up culture – there was generally a big flip flopping with a seemingly endless battle between conservative Christian Values  and PUA culture seemingly unable to find a decent conclusion . Of course you expect peoples views and experiences change over time but in my opinion it turned into too much of a conservative cesspool .

Endless Falling out and Conflicts between Coaches 

I can’t even list all the coaches Anthony Dream Johnson has had a conflict with – but ill try: 

Anthony Dream Johnson got pissed off because Alex Cortez’ wife wouldn’t take his last name 

Arthur Kwok Lee who Anthony had a conflict with because Anthony disliked his black pill viewpoints , also accused him of homosexuality , antisemitism and steroid use. 

John Anthony- Anthony Dream Johnson was upset with his tranny lays subsequently lead to a twitter beef with John Anthony making a video mocking Anthony Johnson about his marriage to a prostitute . John Anthony also filed a threat of a law suit against Dream Johnson but nothing came of it. 

Jay Vincent-  Anthony Dream Johnson wasn’t happy with his TRT usage and called him a fraud because of it . 

Adam Lyons- 10 years after he spoke at the convention Dream Johnson came out and called him a fraud. 

Rollo Tomassi- Apparently doxxed the convention and tried to hijack a meet-up between the speakers  with a liberal news host . This lead to a big falling out between the two of them with the conflict still ensuing even today on twitter. 

Jesse Lee Peterson : Anthony Johnson  accused him of homosexual behaviour – not sure what came from those accusations nor whether or not they had been resolved . 

Richard Cooper :  Richard complained about the safety of the convention which Anthony Johnson took as a personal insult resulting in a falling out between the two which  has seemingly been endless. 

I could go on but you get the gist . 

Rise of the Red Pill proved unpopular 

Speakers like Rollo Tomassi and Richard Cooper generally speaking lost their appeal after a while despite raking in the views initially these people are sitting on a lot less views in general as of now- looking on reddit and seduction forums most of their work wasn’t taken too well by those in the seduction/ self help realm. 

Death of Key speakers and contributors 

Tom Torero , Andrew the Private man and Alan Roger Currie dying no doubt left a hole that couldn’t be filled by the broader dating community. Particularly Tom Torero who’s still very much spoken about in the community at large and who’s podcast still gain a lot of viewership by those who’ve uploaded them to preserve his legacy.  With the deaths of these coaches comes very little replacements that are superior – Id go as far as saying no one has even attempted to come out and replace the hole these speakers have left or match the level of the content they made – especially Torero.  Replacing Tom Torero with Alex from PWF is akin to replacing a Ferrari with a Peugeot 208  , it’s just not the same and most likely after time passes these people will be thought of as irreplaceable. 

The retirement of key coaches like Liam Mcrae and Sasha Daygame bred an aura of less excitement around the convention. For one these coaches were more relatable to the younger generation of viewers rather than say a Texas Dom or Ross Jeffries – definitely the reliability element had somewhat gone out the window replaced with coaches that were more associated with traditional American Christian  conservative values rather than anything else. Is this a bad thing though ? As it could be seen to be showing  growth and maturity however the YouTube views suggest otherwise- the likes of James Marshall , Sasha daygame , Liam Mcrae dominated the new generation of coaches like Texas Dom, Tanner Guzy, Elliot Hulse in terms of views . 

Ex-Speakers Faced Allegations that harmed the 21 Convention Brand 

Whether it be John Anthony sleeping with a tranny or Adam Lyons being exposed as a scammer- the amount of ex speakers that faced questions about their past increased and thus so did the mistrust associated with them. A lot of 21 convention speakers have done odd things and said actions have reflected poorly on Anthony Johnson in turn – not that I blame him though- self help has always been full of gurus and shysters so the fact that a percentage of the 21 convention speakers turned out that way is no surprise.  There are people that i looked up to in the past that Im well aware have made mistakes and have since been exposed.

Black Listing from Youtube 

Due to Anthony Johnson’s polarising viewpoints on feminism he’s had a lot of his videos blacklisted as well as demonetised. This has resulted in less views and a loss of revenue for the convention . Especially in the last 3 years when his channel was once even banned only for it to be unbanned on appeal. 

Birth of his daughter 

Of course the birth of his daughter no doubt took alot of the focus away from the convention on his newborn and rightly so. Its difficult to build new connections and new speakers when you are so preoccupied with something as important as the birth of a new born. 

PUA Community -Divisions and Conflicts

Even outside of Anthony Johnson there was a lot of external conflicts between different coaches. For example – James Marshall and his beef with John Anthony,  Tom Torero and his beef with Nick Krauser , Nick Krauser himself also having a beef with John Anthony  the conflicts were seemingly endless between the speakers making it difficult to create some sense of “unity” that the early 2010 speaker groups seemingly had .

Conclusions 

21 Convention has had a rough ride the last couple of years  , with bad press , poor ticket sales , unpopular Neo-conservative speakers , poorer quality dating coaches , a clear lack of a defined red pill direction and other issues.  While these are problems and the convention may never make a comeback towards what it once was I still appreciate all of Anthony Dream Johnson’s efforts – without the speeches of James Marshall, Tom Torero and Liam Mcare most likely I wouldn’t have a girlfriend today and I’m forever indebted to him for that.