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| type = Crime encouragement, dating frustration, and spam forum |
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| predecessor = ], incels.co, incels.me |
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| owner = Lamarcus Small<ref name="CCDH-2022">{{Cite report |url=https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CCDH-The-Incelosphere..pdf |title=The Incelosphere: Exposing pathways into incel communities and the harms they pose to women and children |date=September 23, 2022 |publisher=] |access-date=February 16, 2023}}</ref><ref name="incels-rape-murder-study">{{cite news |last1=Lorenz |first1=Taylor |author-link=Taylor Lorenz |date=September 23, 2022 |title=The online incel movement is getting more violent and extreme, report says |newspaper=] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/22/incels-rape-murder-study/ |access-date=September 24, 2022}}</ref><ref name="daily">{{cite news |last1=Barbaro |first1=Michael |date=9 December 2021 |title=Kids are dying. How are these sites still allowed? |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/podcasts/the-daily/suicide-investigation.html |url-status=live |access-date=26 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213094826/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/podcasts/the-daily/suicide-investigation.html |archive-date=13 February 2023}}</ref> (aliases include 'Master'<ref name="ISD">{{cite web |last1=Squirrel |first1=Tim |title=Spitting out the Blackpill: Evaluating how Incels Present Themselves in their own Words on the Incel Wiki |website=ISDGlobal |url=https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/spitting-out-the-blackpill-evaluating-how-incels-present-themselves-in-their-own-words-on-the-incel-wiki/ |access-date=26 February 2023 |archive-date=26 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230226080946/https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/spitting-out-the-blackpill-evaluating-how-incels-present-themselves-in-their-own-words-on-the-incel-wiki/ |url-status=live }}</ref>, 'Marquis'<ref name="daily" />, and 'Randy'<ref name="daily" />) |
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| founder = Diego Galante (alias SergeantIncel),<ref name="daily" /><br>Lamarcus Small<ref name="CCDH-2022" /><ref name="incels-rape-murder-study" /><ref name="daily" /> |
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'''incels.is''', formerly known as '''incels.co''' and '''incels.me''',<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Goerz |first=Thelonious |title=What incels are, and why you need to know about them |url=https://www.dailyuw.com/arts_and_culture/what-incels-are-and-why-you-need-to-know-about-them/article_35d36392-7ab9-11e9-882d-5f690e6ea6be.html |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=The Daily of the University of Washington |date=20 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref> is an English-language crime encouragement and dating frustration ] founded in 2017 after the banning of ].<ref name=":4" /> It since gained notoriety for being the largest, English-speaking, self-described incel internet forum,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Beauchamp |first=Zack |date=2019-04-16 |title=The rise of incels: How a support group for the dateless became a violent internet subculture |url=https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/16/18287446/incel-definition-reddit |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title='I am an absolute grotesque subhuman': Incels use inferiority complex to justify misogyny, study shows |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/i-am-an-absolute-grotesque-subhuman-incels-use-inferiority-complex-to-justify-misogyny-study-shows |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=nationalpost |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Halpin |first=Michael |date=October 5, 2022 |title=Weaponized Subordination: How Incels Discredit Themselves to Degrade Women |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08912432221128545 |journal=Gender & Society |language=en |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=813–837 |doi=10.1177/08912432221128545 |s2cid=252740108 |issn=0891-2432}}</ref> and became a main subject of academic literature treating the ] online subculture.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Costello |first1=William |last2=Rolon |first2=Vania |last3=Thomas |first3=Andrew G. |last4=Schmitt |first4=David |date=2022-12-01 |title=Levels of Well-Being Among Men Who Are Incel (Involuntarily Celibate) |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-022-00336-x |journal=Evolutionary Psychological Science |language=en |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=375–390 |doi=10.1007/s40806-022-00336-x |s2cid=252252373 |issn=2198-9885}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hajarian |first1=Mohammad |last2=Khanbabaloo |first2=Zahra |date=June 2, 2021 |title=Toward Stopping Incel Rebellion: Detecting Incels in Social Media Using Sentiment Analysis |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9443027 |journal=2021 7th International Conference on Web Research (ICWR) |pages=169–174 |doi=10.1109/ICWR51868.2021.9443027|isbn=978-1-6654-0426-6 |s2cid=235307794 }}</ref> |
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Due to its content and moderation, it has faced suspension from ] services. According to the .me registry, the forum owner didn't make an honest attempt to remove violence encouragement from the forum when requested.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Binder |first=Matt |date=2018-11-20 |title=Incels.me, a major hub for hate speech and misogyny, suspended by .ME registry |url=https://mashable.com/article/incels-me-domain-suspended-by-registry |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=Mashable |language=en}}</ref> Accounts on the forum encourage mass shootings, attempt to normalize rape, and stalking guides are compiled on the forum.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Ling |first=Justin |date=2018-06-19 |title='Not as ironic as I imagined': the incels spokesman on why he is renouncing them |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/19/incels-why-jack-peterson-left-elliot-rodger |access-date=2023-05-03 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> During March 2022, the forum created an implicit allowance for the sexualization of teenager minors. According to a ] report, more than half the posters (53%) during their study period (2021-2022) supported pedophilia.<ref name="incels-rape-murder-study" /><ref name="CCDH-2022" /> Accounts on the website glorify the ] and celebrated the ]. Both of the website's public and hidden content are characterized by ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |title="I laugh at the death of normies": How incels are celebrating the Toronto mass killing |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/24/i-laugh-death-normies-how-incels-are-celebrating-toronto-mass-killing |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Grau Chopite |first=Jessica |date=2022-03-17 |title=Framing of Inceldom on incels.is: A content analysis |url=https://www.psycharchives.org/en/item/cba554f7-26de-4166-86d6-8848a80983e9 |journal=PsychArchive |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |title=True or False Incels: an analysis of the Incels.is forum |url=https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4217 |publisher=University of Chicago |first=Zachary |last=Hinds}}</ref> |
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== History == |
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The ] subculture became an online phenomenon in the early 2010s, during which various ] and message boards dedicated to it started to emerge.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kardaras |first=Nicholas |title=A new book examines how digital media turned an 'incel' support group into a misogynistic nightmare |url=https://scroll.in/article/1045647/a-new-book-examines-how-digital-media-turned-an-incel-support-group-into-a-misogynistic-nightmare |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=Scroll.in |date=21 March 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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The website was founded on November 8, 2017, after the banning of the ] ].<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last1=Horta Ribeiro |first1=Manoel |last2=Jhaver |first2=Shagun |last3=Zannettou |first3=Savvas |last4=Blackburn |first4=Jeremy |last5=Stringhini |first5=Gianluca |last6=De Cristofaro |first6=Emiliano |last7=West |first7=Robert |date=2021-10-18 |title=Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels |url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3476057 |journal=Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction |volume=5 |issue=CSCW2 |pages=316:1–316:24 |doi=10.1145/3476057|s2cid=224803187 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Klee |first=Miles |date=2023-04-27 |title=The 'LeBron James of Incels' Swears He Has a Girlfriend Now -- He Just Can't Prove It |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/incel-civil-war-girlfriend-komesarj-1234724278/ |access-date=May 19, 2023 |magazine=]}}</ref> The founders, "Marquis" and "Serge", as reported by ], also run the suicide encouragement forum ]. In the same article, they claim that both forums are intended as support communities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nashrulla |first=Tasneem |title=Incels Are Running An Online Suicide Forum That Was Blamed For A Young Woman's Death |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/incels-suicide-forum-woman-killed-herself |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=BuzzFeed News |date=6 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Love |first=Shayla |date=November 19, 2020 |title=People Are Dying After Joining a 'Pro-Choice' Suicide Forum. How Much Is the Site to Blame? |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vn9a/people-are-dying-after-joining-a-pro-choice-suicide-forum-how-much-is-the-site-to-blame |access-date=May 19, 2023 |website=]}}</ref> |
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Over years, it has switched between ], ] and ] TLD extensions due to suspension from domain registrars.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |
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== Public image == |
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Both of the website's public and hidden content are characterized by ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web |title="I laugh at the death of normies": How incels are celebrating the Toronto mass killing |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/24/i-laugh-death-normies-how-incels-are-celebrating-toronto-mass-killing |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Grau Chopite |first=Jessica |date=2022-03-17 |title=Framing of Inceldom on incels.is: A content analysis |url=https://www.psycharchives.org/en/item/cba554f7-26de-4166-86d6-8848a80983e9 |journal=PsychArchive |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |title=True or False Incels: an analysis of the Incels.is forum |url=https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4217 |publisher=University of Chicago |first=Zachary |last=Hinds}}</ref> '']'' reports that users on the website encourage mass shootings.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Ling |first=Justin |date=2018-06-19 |title='Not as ironic as I imagined': the incels spokesman on why he is renouncing them |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/19/incels-why-jack-peterson-left-elliot-rodger |access-date=2023-05-03 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Due to its content and moderation, it has faced suspension from ] services.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Binder |first=Matt |date=2018-11-20 |title=Incels.me, a major hub for hate speech and misogyny, suspended by .ME registry |url=https://mashable.com/article/incels-me-domain-suspended-by-registry |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=Mashable |language=en}}</ref> |
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== Notable members == |
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* ], media personality.<ref name=":2" /> |
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* ], American politician and ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-05 |title='Nathan Larson, the self-described incel paedophile, is running for Congress. This is how he groomed vulnerable young men' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nathan-larson-incel-paedophile-dark-web-congress-virginia-a8384391.html |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> |
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The website was founded on November 8, 2017, after the banning of the ] ].<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last1=Horta Ribeiro |first1=Manoel |last2=Jhaver |first2=Shagun |last3=Zannettou |first3=Savvas |last4=Blackburn |first4=Jeremy |last5=Stringhini |first5=Gianluca |last6=De Cristofaro |first6=Emiliano |last7=West |first7=Robert |date=2021-10-18 |title=Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels |url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3476057 |journal=Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction |volume=5 |issue=CSCW2 |pages=316:1–316:24 |doi=10.1145/3476057|s2cid=224803187 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Klee |first=Miles |date=2023-04-27 |title=The 'LeBron James of Incels' Swears He Has a Girlfriend Now -- He Just Can't Prove It |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/incel-civil-war-girlfriend-komesarj-1234724278/ |access-date=May 19, 2023 |magazine=]}}</ref> The founders, "Marquis" and "Serge", as reported by ], also run the suicide encouragement forum ]. In the same article, they claim that both forums are intended as support communities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nashrulla |first=Tasneem |title=Incels Are Running An Online Suicide Forum That Was Blamed For A Young Woman's Death |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/incels-suicide-forum-woman-killed-herself |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=BuzzFeed News |date=6 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Love |first=Shayla |date=November 19, 2020 |title=People Are Dying After Joining a 'Pro-Choice' Suicide Forum. How Much Is the Site to Blame? |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vn9a/people-are-dying-after-joining-a-pro-choice-suicide-forum-how-much-is-the-site-to-blame |access-date=May 19, 2023 |website=]}}</ref> |
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Over years, it has switched between ], ] and ] TLD extensions due to suspension from domain registrars.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> |
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Journalist Talia Lavin conducted ethnographic research into the forum while it was named incels.co, including their main chat room. She noted forum users frequently making fun of a random, overweight Reddit user for his looks. She also noted that the co-administrator of the forum at the time, named SergeantIncel, "expressed amusement at the anti-Semitism, racism, and misogyny" on incels.co.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lavin |first1=Talia |title=Culture Warlords |date=Oct 13, 2020 |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |access-date=5 June 2023|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFfODwAAQBAJ}}</ref> |
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== Site characteristics == |
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The website is a primary gathering place for incels.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ling |first=Justin |date=June 2, 2020 |title=Incels Are Radicalized and Dangerous. But Are They Terrorists? |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/02/incels-toronto-attack-terrorism-ideological-violence/ |access-date=May 19, 2023 |website=Foreign Policy}}</ref> Registration is approval-based. The moderators ban women and ] individuals from joining, justifying so by stating that the forum is oriented towards ].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stadtmiller |first=Mandy |date=2018-04-29 |title=Sympathy for the 'Incel' |language=en |work=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/sympathy-for-the-incel |access-date=2023-05-03}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last1=Jaki |first1=Sylvia |last2=Smedt |first2=Tom De |last3=Gwóźdź |first3=Maja |last4=Panchal |first4=Rudresh |last5=Rossa |first5=Alexander |last6=Pauw |first6=Guy De |date=2019-11-25 |title=Online hatred of women in the Incels.me forum: Linguistic analysis and automatic detection |url=https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jlac.00026.jak |journal=Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict |language=en |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=240–268 |doi=10.1075/jlac.00026.jak |s2cid=199183681 |issn=2213-1272}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Nashrulla |first=Tasneem |title=Incels Are Running An Online Suicide Forum That Was Blamed For A Young Woman's Death |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/incels-suicide-forum-woman-killed-herself |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=BuzzFeed News |date=6 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> |
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It is composed of public and registered ] for self-described ] to discuss their personal experiences.<ref name=":1" /> |
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=== Demographics === |
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Despite common stereotypes of ]s as ],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rozsa |first=Matthew |date=2022-10-12 |title=Which came first, the incel or the misogynist? A new study delves into the incel mind |url=https://www.salon.com/2022/10/12/incel-misogyny-study/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref> according to the website 40% of its users are of an ethnic minority background.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hitting the Books: The racist underpinnings of incel ideology |url=https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-culture-warlords-talia-lavin-hachette-books-163023083.html |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Engadget |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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According to a 2019, internal website poll, one in four members were on the ], and two thirds considered suicide.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-13 |title=Radical online communities and their toxic allure for autistic men |url=https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/radical-online-communities-and-their-toxic-allure-for-autistic-men/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Spectrum {{!}} Autism Research News |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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The ] found that incels.is had millions of monthly visits. They also found that, what they call the "heart of the incelosphere network", by which they meant incels.is, had only 4,057 active members from January 1st, 2021 to July 7th, 2022. According to the study, 406 incels.is users account for 74.6% of all incels.is posts during the aforementioned study period.<ref name="CCDH-2022" /> As incels.is was reportedly the largest self-described incel forum during this time, this is in slight contrast to a now-deleted ''The Spectator'' article authored by Toby Young which estimated the self-described incel community was hundreds of thousands people large.<ref name="spectate">{{cite news |last1=Young |first1=Toby |author-link=Toby Young |date=May 5, 2018 |title=Here's what every incel needs: a sex robot |work=] |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/heres-what-every-incel-needs-a-sex-robot |url-status=live |access-date=May 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516104652/https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/heres-what-every-incel-needs-a-sex-robot |archive-date=May 16, 2018}}</ref> The CCDH found that usernames from the incels.is forum overlap with what the CCDH calls "incelosphere" forums about body image and unemployment also owned by the incels.is owners.<ref name="CCDH-2022" /> |
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* ], Media personality and self-proclaimed spokesperson of incels.me in 2018.<ref name=":2" /> |
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* ], American politician and ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-05 |title='Nathan Larson, the self-described incel paedophile, is running for Congress. This is how he groomed vulnerable young men' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nathan-larson-incel-paedophile-dark-web-congress-virginia-a8384391.html |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref> |
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