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Posts tagged with ‘Incel’

  • Nov262025

    Intersectionality in the Incelosphere: Understanding the Racial Dimensions of Misogynistic Extremism

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    This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series, aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism…

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  • Nov252025

    Sanctified Misogyny: The Use of Fundamentalist Sexual Narratives to Legitimise Incel Ideology

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    This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series, aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism…

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  • Jul142025

    AI at the Centre: Violent Extremist Exploitation in Pirkkala

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    On 20 May 2025, a 16-year-old boy stabbed three of his female classmates at the Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala, Finland.…

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  • May062025

    “Everyone Will Remember Jamie”: A Post-Adolescence Reflection on Online Misogyny

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    Introduction The release of Adolescence, a 4-part drama on Netflix examining a teenager accused of murder, has propelled discussions about…

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  • Mar032025

    “Watching foids seethe is actual lifefuel”: Celebratory Male Supremacism in the Aftermath of the 2024 US Presidential Election

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    Content warning: This Insight contains misogynistic, racist and transphobic slurs and mentions of suicide.   Introduction Six weeks ago, Donald Trump…

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  • Jan092025

    “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re all domestic terrorists”: Incels on the Bondi Attack

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    Introduction This Insight examines responses to the Bondi stabbing attack of 2024 on incel forums, contributing to the current discussion…

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  • Dec022024

    “Degenerate” Queers and “Chadsexual” Sapphics: Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric in the Incelosphere

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    Content warning: This insight contains references to homophobic and transphobic slurs and violence against women.   Introduction At present, our understandings…

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  • Aug052024

    Corecore: a TikTok Trend as Initiation to Incel Ideology

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    Introduction  Corecore is a trend that gained popularity in 2022 on TikTok. Each video in the trend is a montage…

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  • May072024

    Hiding in Plain Sight: How the ‘Newgen’ Misogynistic Incel Content Creators Escape Moderation on TikTok

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    Content warning: This Insight contains mentions of sexual and graphic violence, suicide, and racist language  In the past few years,…

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  • Apr252024

    Imagining the Past: Justifications of Ideology in Incel Communities

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    Introduction Incel (‘involuntary celibacy’) online communities have become known for hostile, misogynist ideology and a hopeless, deterministic and self-deprecating worldview.…

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