I was a PUA in a community in 2013-2015.
Made some good friends but you can find two kinds of people, strictly in the PUA community.
1. On one side, some people who really try to understand the deep psychological and manipulation things that happen when you use these techniques with girls. I saw some guys being real wizards with girls and were having all the girls despite having an average body and not so muscular. Working on charisma was their main focus.
2. The other side is weirdos which learn all the Neil Strauss and Mystery "secrets" and end up damaging all their relationships.
I was in the second category

and after that I moved on with other things in my life and had normal relationships with people
PS: I am still a little bit a weirdo, but not much, but a little bit too much...