My guess then is that you were relatively good looking and didn't had to bother much with game as a younger man. Because women were attracted to you, you didn't experience so much of the BS because they only do that to guys that they're not attracted to.
I pretty much had anti-game, I rejected women without realizing it. I had really bad anxiety and lack of socialization from a young age, awkward puberty and got made fun of a lot as a nerdy fat kid. Around 16 or so I got a lot better looking (pretty much stayed the same weight but got a lot taller, more muscular/athletic) but I just assumed I was too weird and ugly. When girls approached me I assumed it was some sort of prank. Eventually, had situations where friends' GFs' friends asked to be set up with me, friends' sister's friends asked me to their prom. That sort of thing. I think my anxiety came off attractive sometimes, as a sort of natural aloofness/non-neediness. Still needy and insecure I usually chose to dismiss signs of attraction and read things in the worst way possible. I would hear from other people stories about how I interacted with some girl and didn't even realize it. Got into serious relationships instead of playing the field, and looked for women/girls who were really into me but I wasn't even that attracted to them. Ended up getting married soon after my all-time best GF dumped me, because I was lonely and wanted kids. Thought she was the safe/logical choice. Got fat and extreme beta husband territory. Did some "married redpill" type stuff and got more attractive but still completely out of it and feeling invisible and ego issues near end of marriage.
If there's a poster child for "it's not your looks but your personality" (and other factors like age and the changing of society) and refutation all the incel/blackpill stuff, it's probably me. I don't think I'm greatlooking, definitely not a male model or anything, but I had "hot" women approach me in my teens and 20s and now in my 40s I at least get "good for your age" from 20somethings.