Angertainment

Publisher's description:
Social media is no longer a tool for connection but a viral outrage machine that harvests and monetises our worst impulses.

As a result, we are being driven apart: politics is becoming more extreme, young women are following dangerous health advice and young men are adopting the sexist attitudes of their grandpas. Most troubling: it has spawned a new class of power—those who know how to game the outrage economy to change how you vote, what you buy, and who you hate.

Welcome to the era of Angertainment.

Social media outrage is an entire industry. Rage-bait—the 2025 Word of the Year—isn’t just an internet annoyance, it has become the supreme vehicle for building political and cultural capital. Angertainment is the tale of how people manipulate and weaponise our viral anger to change our world for the worse.

In this high-stakes, highly entertaining journey through our new reality, Ed Coper unmasks the architects of this new power—from manosphere gurus to political demagogues and corporate giants—who have realised that in the attention economy, your anger is the only currency that matters.

Author: Ed Coper

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Format: Paperback

Pages: 352

Published: 26 May 2026

ISBN: 9781761636691