Mark Klavan reacts to the viral "hoflation" debate, where men claim dating now demands more effort due to women’s perceived self-worth—dismissing it as a mix of absurdity (e.g., needing phones for parties) and flawed logic, like retail scarcity myths. He blames feminism for inevitable societal shifts, mocks self-deprecating female content, and accuses men who amplify the term of degrading standards, wrapping it in sarcasm while pitching Helix Sleep’s award-winning mattresses (82% deep sleep boost, 120-night trial) at helixleep.com/claven. [Automatically generated summary]
All right, today we're going to take a look at videos about hoflation.
And I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, what is hoflation?
And if you're not thinking that, you know too much.
You actually need to get out more and get offline.
But hoflation, it turns out, is a pejorative term used to describe a perceived inflation-like increase in the effort, time, and money men have to invest in order to pursue relationships or casual sexual encounters with women.
So poor things.
I don't know, maybe they have to be polite or something, you know, in order to get laid, basically.
This is how much it's costing you to get.
Hoflation is how much it gets to cost to get laid.
Maybe the first thing you should do is stop calling women hoes.
Right.
I've never seen these videos before, so we're going to watch videos about hoflation.
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All right, let's look at the first one of these.
I feel like the easiest time to get a girlfriend was literally any time before phones because as soon as phones came around, you have to go outside to do that.
Like you could wake up and just equip it.
If you go to a party, I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, but how do you know where that party is if you have no phone?
Flyer?
You know people?
Yeah, but what if you tell them?
That's part of the problem.
I don't know, dude.
I do agree hoflation is real.
Hoflation is extreme.
Because, hey, a six out of ten back in the day is a 10 out of 10 now with their mindset.
Shit's crazy.
No, I mean, six out of ten is nothing that's not.
I think a lot of people think they're more attractive than they are.
That's what I was trying to say.
But I think also part of it that plays into it is people are just a little more desperate nowadays.
Like, hoflation wouldn't exist as much if dudes weren't playing into it.
You know what I mean?
So so far, we've learned that nowadays, in order to get a girl, you have to go outside and maybe sober up would help.
That might do something for you.
This is obviously a crisis.
You know, we shouldn't laugh at the crises of the young.
This is a terrible crisis.
They have to go outside to meet women.
You know, I have to tell you, I came of age in the bar, the singles bar place.
And if you want to know, you know, what a hard time is like, the kind of women you met were the kind of women who went to singles bars.
And it took years for me to figure out, like, oh, I see what's going wrong.
And start to look in other places.
And finally, I picked my wife up hitchhiking, which is actually true.
So far, we've learned you have to sober up, you have to go outside and sometimes know people or meet people.
And I loved, I loved, how would you even know there was a party without your phone?
Would you get a flyer?
That's good.
Because these guys don't know before the iPhone that we actually had phones.
I don't want to, you know, I don't want to brag, but we actually did that phones.
All right.
Now that I got you, incel sat down.
The other day, I saw a TikTok of two guys in their car talking about hoeflation, and they came to the conclusion that hoflation is not only caused by bitches thinking they're the shit, but guys feeding into the idea that these bitches are the shit.
Because an ugly bitch, with nothing but a fat ass and some big titties hanging up in your face, can get 100 million likes, 100 million followers, start OnlyFans, and be set for the rest of their life.
And now we got ugly bitches thinking they're the f ⁇ ing shit.
Now, a guy that's quote unquote in her league can't get her anymore because she already has everything.
Like she already has a million guys wanting her hella bad.
She got mad bread from these guys.
So she thinks you also have to pay for her just to like be in her presence and shit.
So their take was basically that guys caused hoflation.
I think that's not true.
I think feminism caused hoeflation.
Feminist Flation Theory00:03:04
And don't get it f ⁇ twisted.
Don't twist my words up and say I'm not a f ⁇ ing feminist.
I am a f ⁇ ing feminist.
Look at me.
I'm a beautiful woman.
How can I not be a feminist?
But I think hoflation was doomed to happen since the beginning of time.
The only thing that postponed hoeflation from happening was the patriarchy.
Absolutely.
It's actually in the Bible.
The prophet said, you know, one day thou shalt have a hoflation and because, you know, these these bitches think that they're a poor woman.
God, I shouldn't laugh.
I'm going to hell now.
But still, you know, she is.
She was an attractive woman.
She just apparently like creation just stopped with her somewhere above the eyebrows.
That was just it.
Because the way she's talking about her sex is so demeaning.
I'm sorry.
I don't know.
no, I sound like a feminist, and I literally am not a feminist.
But the way she was talking about women was so demeaning that I can't even understand why anybody would have any flation whatsoever.
Like, I don't know where the flation is coming from.
It just seems the price should be going down if that's the way women are thinking about themselves.
And it probably is.
I'm speechless.
I'm stuttering here because I did not know.
Somehow between the last time I did one of these and now our culture has like tanked.
It was like a trapdoor just opened and our culture just went and fell right through it.
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GameStop Girls Solved00:03:27
It's K-L-A-V-A-N.
I think men, we are to blame for this, though.
I think that's what hoflation, the concept is about, is that women are so inundated with male attention, heterosexual women are so inundated with male attention, often that they didn't even ask for or want, that they just get this elevated sense of self-worth that is so far beyond what their actual tangible worth in the economy of relationship would be.
And it's usually characterized by when you say things like, well, what do you bring to the table?
And you get a response like, well, I am the table, which doesn't even make sense as a metaphor.
Well, he's got a point there.
I love in that video the law books behind them and the, you know, the nice vest and the tie.
This looks like a guy who's actually went to college, possibly.
He's discussing this with a very serious face.
So his thesis is, if I get it right, that women, pretty girls, get so much attention that they feel that they're more worthwhile than they are.
They're worth more than they are.
Now, that's true.
That's never happened before.
In the old days, we just ignored beautiful women.
You what?
So that's why the price dropped.
So that theory makes a lot of sense if you are using any of a number of hallucinogenic drugs.
Maybe it's the subject.
Maybe this is it.
So far, I haven't heard three words put together that would, you know, combined, would form an intelligent thought.
And I'm wondering if that may just be the subject.
Ho-flation.
That we're not going to get to real intelligence.
And so, all right, here's another one.
Back in the day, you would go to a GameStop and there would actually be girls like this working at the GameStop.
Now, every hot girl can just stay home and make money on the internet, right?
I know, I know people might say that I'm crazy for saying this, but I think that this is real.
I think it happened.
There used to be way more hot girls working in retail stores whenever I was in high school and I was in college versus now.
I'm sorry, I can speak directly into this because I've been a gamer since Pong, right?
I've been playing games before most of you people were born, right?
And I have gone to GameStop many, many times.
There were never girls who looked like that in GameStop.
The fact that there was a girl in GameStop, if you encountered an actual female person in GameStop, that in itself was so overwhelmingly sexy just because there were none.
There were no girls in GameStops.
That was like, did not happen.
And so if some, you know, pimply face, you know, four-eyed fat girl came into a GameStop, you were like, va-va-va-voom.
You know, we actually said that in those days.
That's a beautiful, beautiful girl because she was in GameStop and that just never happened.
So that we have to discount that one entirely.
Here's my thesis.
My thesis is that the hoflation is caused by the fact that men like this exist, making it absolutely not worthwhile for women to have any relationships at all unless they just get lots of money.
I think I've solved it.
So look, we solved the problem.
We delved into this subject and we're all just a little bit more degraded and small for having done so.
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