incels
Incel Culture: What We’ve Learned From Investigating Plymouth Attacker’s Digital Footprint
August 9, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Violent Misogyny, Mass Murder and Suicide: It’s Time to Save Incels from Themselves
August 7, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
The Role of Perceived Injustice and Need for Esteem on Incel Membership Online
September 18, 2023Incels – a term that stands for “involuntary celibates”—is a subculture of men connected by their inability to obtain romantic and sexual relationships. As a group known for real-world violent attacks, understanding the drivers of online membership offers valuable insight into these vulnerable men. The current study used inductive qualitative analysis of over 8,000 posts ...
The Incelosphere: Exposing pathways into incel communities and the harms they pose to women and children
September 18, 2023This new report, a product of the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s new Quant Lab, is a systematic study of over a million posts over the past eighteen months on the world’s leading incels forum. By stripping language down to mathematics, we can eke out trends that provide real insight into incel communities. Our Quant ...
Examining incel subculture on Reddit
September 18, 2023The online presence of incels, or involuntary celibates, has been an increasing security concern for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in recent years, given that self-identified incels – including Alek Minassian and Elliot Rodger – used the Internet to disseminate incel ideology and manifestos prior to committing acts of violence. However, little is empirically known about ...
The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women
September 18, 2023Emerging alongside the progression of women’s rights in the twenty-first century is the development of the men’s rights movement, parts of which have culminated into the contemporary ‘manosphere.’ Consisting of online communities that ascribe to misogynistic ideologies, which objectify, disparage, and dehumanise women, the manosphere also houses those who identify as involuntary celibate (incel). ...
An Exploration of the Involuntary Celibate (Incel) Subculture Online
September 18, 2023Incels, a portmanteau of the term involuntary celibates, operate in online communities to discuss difficulties in attaining sexual relationships. Past reports have found that multiple elements of the incel culture are misogynistic and favorable towards violence. Further, several violent incidents have been linked to this community, which suggests that incel communities may resemble other ideologically ...