Gonzalo Ángel Quintilio Lira López (born February 29, 1968) is a Chilean-American novelist,[4] film director,[5] financial blogger, YouTuber, and commentator in the manosphere known as Coach Red Pill. A resident of Kharkiv, Ukraine, he started vlogging about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine shortly after it began from what has been described by The Daily Beast as a pro-Putin perspective.[6] In April 2022, Lira alleged that he had been detained by the Security Service of Ukraine but provided no details to support his allegations, and continued to vlog shortly thereafter.[7]

Gonzalo Lira
Born	Gonzalo Ángel Quintilio Lira López[1] February 29, 1968 Burbank, California, U.S
Nationality	Chilean American
Alma mater	Dartmouth College[2]
Occupation	Novelist Film director Financial blogger YouTuber
YouTube information
Channel	Gonzalo Lira
Genre	Geopolitics Incel life advice Antifeminism Finance Economics
Subscribers	153,000[3]
Total views	5,245,229[3]
Updated: 25 April 2022

Early life

Lira was born to Chilean parents in Burbank, California.[8] He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, New York, Miami and also Guayaquil, Ecuador. He graduated from Saint George's College, Santiago in 1985, and from Dartmouth College in 1995, with a degree in history and philosophy.[9]

Career

According to El Mercurio, in December 1996, Lira signed a book contract with G. P. Putnam's Sons to publish a commercial thriller entitled Counterparts. In 1997, he published a Spanish-language novel, Tomáh Errázurih. In 1998, he directed a short action film, So Kinky. He published a second English-language commercial thriller, Acrobat, in 2002. In 2005, in Chile, he filmed Secuestro, which despite a large investment, was not successful nor received favourable reviews.[10] It came in second in the box office in Chile during its opening weekend.[11]^{[inconsistent]}

Between 2010 and 2013, Lira published his thoughts on economics and other subjects analysis on his blog, sometimes he reposted them on the blog Business Insider.[5][12] On four occasions, he reposted on them on Naked Capitalism blog.[13] He also contributed to Zero Hedge, a fringe financial website.[14][15] During this period, Lira contacted Australian economist Steve Keen, proposing him to work together on a project and start a content paid subscription site. According to Keen, Gonzalo "overstated and over-promised what he could do, then under-delivered", and that his demeanor led to the departure of collaborators and employees.[6]

From 2017, Lira was active on YouTube, under the pseudonym Coach Red Pill (CRP). This name is an allusion to Red Pill and Blue Pill symbolism in the Manosphere community. The content was anti-feminist in nature and appealed to incels.[10][16] Lira posted videos with advice such as "never date a woman in her thirties" and argued that all women really only want money, a house, and kids, as child-rearing is the one thing that will biologically validate them.[6] In one video, he advised viewers living in Western democracies to move to "a poor, underdeveloped country" due to the former's "totalitarian" deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.[17] He published over 500 videos, gaining 324,000 subscribers and around 2 million views.[18] In November 2021, Lira deleted most of his CRP content and began posting under his legal name.[6][10] He lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine and has family there.[6]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

In mid-February 2022 Lira said that "no one over the age of 12 or with an IQ over 90 seriously believes that the Russians are going to invade [Ukraine] anytime soon".[19] After they did in fact invade just over a week later, he began to vlog about the invasion from what has been described by The Daily Beast as a pro-Russian or "pro-Putin" perspective,[6][20] for example calling the Bucha massacre a "hoax".[19] Segments from Lira's vlogs have been replayed on Channel One Russia.[6] Some of Lira's former associates have voiced skepticism that he is still in Kharkiv, from where he says he continues to vlog.[6]

In April 2022, Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, and Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, drew attention to the fact that Lira had not been heard from. There was considerable speculation about his disappearance and possible death, with Ritter using his platform on Russia-state-owned media, Russia Today (RT), to allege Lira had been murdered by Ukrainian agents. However, Lira reappeared, unharmed, on 22 April, alleging that he had been detained by the Security Service of Ukraine but provided no details to support his allegations.[7][19]

Filmography

• So Kinky (1998) — writer, director.
• Secuestro (2005) aka Catalina's Kidnapping — co-writer, co-producer, director.

Publications

• Lira, Gonzalo (1997). Tomáh Errázurih (1 ed.). Santiago de Chile: Mondadori. ISBN 956-258-057-1. OCLC 38081261.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
• Lira, Gonzalo (1998). Counterparts. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-14312-2. OCLC 37300650.[21]
• Lira, Gonzalo (2002). Acrobat (1 ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-28694-5. OCLC 48515857.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)[22]

References

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External links

• IMDb page

На других языках

[ru] Лира, Гонсало