@Rippyy

I'm 15, how do I increase my SMV? For context, I used to be 196lbs at 5'4 this January, now i'm 170lbs and 5'7 I'm working out, eating tons of protein, still in a calorie deficit (my aim is to get to 15% bodyfat, i'm at 25% rn) and doing all sorts of things. I have terrible social anxiety, no game or social skills and my body language isn't very dominant or assertive. What do I do? How do I increase my smv? I don't even actually care about getting girls, only the validation I receive from getting attention. How do I level up?

For now, be diligent in your actions, patient with yourself, and focus on accomplishing an education that prepares you for the challenges ahead. Find opportunities that challenge you mentally and physically to build up your confidence. Make plans to enter into the trades after high school. That will leave you miles ahead of your peers in the long run. Check out the books tribe to see if anything stands out to you.

Beyond that, consider investing into a reliable ready reference you can pick up and study to better prepare yourself for engaging the opposite sex. I'd suggest that you get yourself a copy of Doc Love's "The System: The Dating Dictionary". Doc Love, who until his passing was also known as Tom Hodges, wrote a weekly advice column that's archive is mirrored on several mens focused sites and a podcast. His media is a bit pricey, but it's a solid foundation a guy can branch out from in RP aware circles. I'd suggest you review his advice column to decide if his view on dating and relationships is aligned with what you aspire for yourself. To save yourself a search, give this scribed link a gander to find out if his book is something you'd like to add to your library.

@Rippyy,

@Typo-MAGAshiv writes,

Additionally: no one here is going to spoon-feed you or hold your hand. You're going to have to do a good bit of reading and experimenting.

Nobody spoon-feeds men. That's a problem, but women have co-opted all male rites of passage, and here we are. When dinosaurs like us were young, we didn't have the resources available to guys your age. The internet didn't exist back then.

OTOH, Tinder didn't exist, either, so that was a point in our favor, as well as the fact that most boys grew up with fathers at home (and not just most white and asian boys like now). Mixed bag, overall. FWIW, even in the 1970s the idea of finding a virgin of marriage age was widely considered to be an exercise in futility. Remember that it was the Baby Boom generation that created the "Free Love" movement, so there's a pretty good chance that at least one of your grandmothers was a 304.

Anyway, we all have to play the cards we're dealt, and for men that has always included putting in the work. We no longer have rites of passage to tell us 1) what we need to know and 2) when we know enough to join the ranks of men, so every guy has to figure it out for himself by trial amd error.

You've gotten some good advice here, so remember that while women are human beings, men are expected to be human doings. Don't fall into the trap of thinking you can get by being a human knowing, either. Basements all over the western world are filled with fat dweebs who can quote every redpill maxim there is to their waifu pillows. Knowledge is essential, but it must lead to effective action.