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Posts tagged with ‘Incel’

  • Jan092025

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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • Jan102024

    Slipping Through the Cracks: Recognising Extremist Misogyny Outside of Inceldom 

    Introduction  The ‘manosphere’ is defined as “an umbrella term that refers to a number of interconnected misogynistic communities”. The most well-known…

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  • Dec082023

    Learning from the Leavers? The Promise (and Perils) of r/IncelExit 

    This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series in partnership with Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. This series…

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  • Nov272023

    Men, Masculinities and Memes: The Case of Incels

    This Insight is part of GNET’s Gender and Online Violent Extremism series in partnership with Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre. This series…

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  • Mar162023

    Unpacking the Incelosphere: In-group Categorisation, Incel Purity, and Competition 

    Introduction  In the near-decade since the first publicly recognised act of incel violence in 2014, at the hands of 22-year-old…

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  • Mar152023

    Discourses of Violence in Incel Online Discussions After the Plymouth Shooting

    Introduction In August 2021, a young man attacked and killed his mother in Plymouth, UK. He then left his home,…

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