Wtf am I looking at? Does it even have a starting point? Do I need to drink kratom and go through a schizo episode to read this?
This is the 2024 very busy revised version of his Magnum Opus Zones chart 2.0 that I believe hoe_math still uses to this day.
From the OP
This Zones chart is probably the most important and the most frequently used drawing in HM's whole kit (besides the Female Delusion Chart for attractiveness).
The left side is the male decision tree:
- men are much simpler and mostly value women on physical attractiveness, lack of body count, not being a cunt, etc.
- the male version essentially has 3 relationship categories - Keeper (Unicorn marriage material), Sleepers (women good enough to fuck and parade around publicly but never commit to) and Sweepers (Slump Busters - women good enough to fuck secretly if desperate but embarassing to be associated with publicly)
The right side is the female decison tree:
- much more complicated
- Take Home Message: Investment on the Y Axis (Money, Attention, Time, Resources, Being Nice, Being Safe) can never make up for lack of Tingles/Raw Attractiveness/Bad Boy energy
- Physical Attraction/Bad Boy Energy on the X Axis is much more desirable and effective
This is a 1.0 2023 more simplified version of his Zones chart.
I listened to his first few livestreams in late 2023. He went viral on TikTok then YT during the summer/early fall of that year. In some of the YT comments, people note he was gaining sometimes 5k subs daily. In his first ever Nov 2nd, 2023 stream, the comments and stream mention he has risen to 130-160k subs, where he sits at 675k YT subs today.
The relevance to the charts is that he claims to have realized what was happening in the fall of 2023 with his viral rise and decided that he needed some fresh background content and study aids.
He claims that this more rudimentary 1.0 Zones version took him 3 whole days to concoct.
He admits it's mostly based on his personal experience, his Psychology education (decades ago), reading evolutionary psych (though COVID broke him so badly that he claimed in 2023 not to have read a book in 4 years).
ie These charts are only as "scientific" as the small amounts of psychology he knows applies to his lived experience
This is the male half of the newer 2.0 2024 chart.
The leftmost column are traits and qualities that men evaluate in potential women mates - physical appearance, personality, purity (lack of body count, modesty, lack of other male competitors, baggage)
In the male version, sexual attraction and pair bonding are unilinear on a single vertical access. Top is more sexual attraction/more desire to commit, bottom is opposite.
He's added another dimension here where there's a public/private line on the righthand column.
The middle "Zero - Worst I Would See Again", is a dividing line whether a guy values a woman enough to be associated with her publicly. Everything above this line, is at least public gf material (though possibly still noncommittal "situationships"). Everything below are women that are mid and below, worth secret sexual congress but too low value to be associated with at large.
This is a zoomed in version of the 2.0 female half of the Zones chart, missing all the input variables on both the x-axis (Bad Boy traits, physical appearance, status, Dark Triad traits, etc) and the y-axis (Security/Investment - Good Guy stuff, being nice, giving her resources, money, attention, making her feel safe and comfortable).
In this chart, the boxes are mirrored along the y-axis, where more Bad Boy/Tingles points pushes a potential mate further to the left.
Take home messages
- Bad Boy/physical attraction/confidence/dangerous/exciting/Dark triad traits are way more important in female sexual desire than boring/safe/nice/resource rich husband material stuff
- "She doesn't owe you anything" - You can't manufacture genuine female desire by being infinitely nice and investing resources. The attraction has to be already there.
- Men with little physical appeal or resources are invisible to women, they are ghosts (the Not People Zone)

- Lots of niceness/resource Investment with little Bad Boy physical attraction = Friend Zone
- Lots of Bad Boy traits with little being nice/resource Investment = lots of sexual desire but short unstable relationships with assholes/jerks
- mid attractiveness and mid investment = situationships that go nowhere
- mid attractiveness with LOTS of niceness/investment = Husband Material (stable LTR lacking true sexual desire)
- maxed out Bad Boy and Lots of niceness/resources = Prince Charming unicorn