Masculinist influencer Alex Hitchens, from pro basketball player to pro flirter

On Alex Hitchens' social media, his videos are all alike and follow one another. This two-meter-tall colossus, dressed all in black, walks the streets of the capital with a single goal: to approach women. He calls out, gestures, asks questions, and (strangely) always ends up getting his interlocutor's contact information. From time to time, the 26-year-old dispenses his best flirting tips on camera, the keys to his "success" with the fairer sex, with remarks that are shocking, to say the least. As a result, TikTok decided to delete his account, followed by 650,000 subscribers, on Thursday, June 12, before he himself reactivated it a few hours later.

But before becoming this pseudo-seduction expert, Alex Hitchens was Isac Mayembo, a young teenager with a promising basketball career. Blessed with an impressive physique, he became a professional player in 2016, at just 17 years old, with the Antibes Sharks youth team before joining the first team in 2018. A year later, he was even called up to the French U20 team for a preparatory camp for the European Championship. After a brief stint with La Charité Basket 58 in the Men's National 1 during the 2019-2020 season, he ended his sports career in 2021.

From then on, he launched himself on social networks and became Alex Hitchens, a nod to the character of the seduction coach played by Will Smith in the film Hitch (2005). He gave himself the same title and quickly understood that the cl