Jennifer OuelletteWhy incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care. A growing number of incels are NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). That should concern us all. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/why-incels-take-the-blackpill-and-why-we-should-care/
Jane@JenLucPiquant "We have to be careful to make those distinctions because the kind of intervention or prevention efforts that we might direct towards the Redpill community versus the Blackpill community might be very different." I'm so glad she brought this up, it's a really important distinction. This is a great article. We studied incel linguistics on Reddit a few years ago and found very similar trends: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12006
The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a global misogynistic community
Evolving out of a gender-neutral framing of an involuntary celibate identity, the concept of `incels' has come to refer to an online community of men who bear antipathy towards themselves, women, and society-at-large for their perceived inability to find and maintain sexual relationships. By exploring incel language use on Reddit, a global online message board, we contextualize the incel community's online expressions of misogyny and real-world acts of violence perpetrated against women. After assembling around three million comments from incel-themed Reddit channels, we analyze the temporal dynamics of a data driven rank ordering of the glossary of phrases belonging to an emergent incel lexicon. Our study reveals the generation and normalization of an extensive coded misogynist vocabulary in service of the group's identity.
Acratopège@janeadams I'm glad you are here among us on the fediverse.
I wonder if there are other people working on incel studies here 🤔