Isac Mayembo
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 4, 1999 Évry, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Listed height | 201 cm (6 ft 7 in) |
| Career information | |
| College | Basket club Courneuvien (2015) |
| Playing career | 2017–2021 |
| Position | Power forward |
| Career history | |
| 2017–2018 | Olympique Antibes |
| 2018–2019 | Olympique Antibes |
| 2019–2020 | La Charité Basket 58 |
| 2020–2021 | Entente Cergy Osny Pontoise Basket Ball |
Isac Mayembo (born January 4, 1999, Évry), also known as Alex Hitchens, is a French basketball player and social media personality.
After a short professional sports career at the highest level, he decided to stop and take up social networking. In content posted on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, he presents himself as a seduction coach and sells online training courses. However, his videos are the subject of recurring controversy due to his masculinist views.
Early life
[edit]Of Congolese origin,[1] Isac Mayembo[2] was born in Evry on January 4, 1999.[3]
He started playing basketball "late", at the age of 15.[4]
Sport career
[edit]On September 10, 2018, Mayembo signs with Antibes.[5] He starts with the Antibes Sharks Espoirs before joining the professional squad during the sports season.[6][7]
In 2019, he is one of 15 players called up by Jean-Aimé Toupane for the French U20 team at INSEP for the first training camp in preparation for the European Championship in Tel Aviv from July 13 to 21, 2019.[8]
In 2019, he is loaned out by Antibes to the Nationale 1 club. His first real professional experience came at La Charité Basket 58.[9]
In 2020, he signed at Entente Cergy Osny Pontoise Basket Ball.[9]
On July 29, 2021, he was declared a free agent.[5]
Online presence
[edit]He is known on social networks under the pseudonym Alex Hitchens, the name of a fictional character played by Will Smith in the film Hitch.[7]
He presents himself as a seduction coach and sells online training courses.[10]
His videos on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok have come in for recurrent criticism, however, due to his masculinist rhetoric, in which he advocates physical violence against women, as well as for certain passages in which he kisses women in the street without their consent.[10]
TikTok Commission Inquiry
[edit]On June 10, 2025, he was one of five content creators interviewed by the French parliamentary commission investigating TikTok,[11] which had been identified as the most problematic in a large-scale citizen consultation.[10]
Present by videoconference, he asserted during the hearing (which initially lasted 45 minutes) that "Tiktok must be banned because this platform is harmful". What works best," he adds, "is content that offends. [...] The cashier it is, the clearer it is, the better it works".
About 20 minutes into the hearing, the committee chairman asked him about a video in which he questioned the presence of women in the street after 10pm.[10] He then became annoyed and left the call, declaring that his remarks had been taken out of context.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ ADANLE, Angèle M. (2023-03-27). ""On va reculer un peu", le couple Didi B et Sara௠d'Hologne déjà en difficultés ?". BENIN WEB TV (in French). Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ^ "Touchée par quatre blessures, La Charité en a plein le dos avant de recevoir Orchies".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Proballers. "Isaac Mayembo, joueur de basket". Proballers (in French). Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ^ "Basket-ball/NM1 - Deux espoirs d'Antibes viennent s'aguerrir à La Charité basket".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Isaac Mayembo Player Profile, La Chartie Basket 58 - RealGM". basketball.realgm.com. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ^ rédaction, La (2018-04-12). "J'étais un peu choqué, je ne m'y attendais pas". Nice-Matin (in French). Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ^ a b ""Une femme, après 22h, qu'est-ce qu'elle fout dehors ?" : on rembobine la polémique Alex Hitchens, influenceur masculiniste". www.laprovence.com (in French). 2024-03-26. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ^ "Mayembo et Tanner en Equipe de France ! | Sharks Antibes". www.sharks-antibes.com (in French). Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ^ a b "Isaac Mayembo renforce le secteur intérieur de Cergy-Pontoise". BeBasket (in French). Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ^ a b c d "«Au revoir Monsieur, bonne journée» : l'influenceur Alex Hitchens quitte brusquement la commission d'enquête sur TikTok sans autorisation". Le Figaro (in French). 2025-06-11. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ^ "Commission d'enquête sur les effets de TikTok : 5 influenceurs controversés interrogés ce mardi à l'Assemblée nationale". TF1 INFO (in French). 2025-06-10. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ^ "Alex Hitchens, Nasdas, AD Laurent… Retrouvez toutes les déclarations de l'audition des influenceurs controversés à l'Assemblée nationale". BFMTV (in French). 2025-06-10. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics from Basketball Reference