Robert

Especially after Manassian's attack, there's a bunch of crackdowns and bans of different incel communities online.

Several big forums actually shut themselves down because the people running them are worried about attracting the attention of law enforcement.

But the first stage of the incel response to this was pure toothpaste tube effect.

They find new places online to gather and they start coming up with new terms that the algorithms aren't looking for so that they can keep talking openly without people noticing.

incels who'd tired of socializing with normies on 4chan's R9K board moved to Reddit, where the incels subreddit quickly accrued a huge audience.

As Adam Oleksik writes, From there, they slowly began pushing their philosophy in other subreddits.

Forums like these were evidently fruitful recruiting grounds, but the incels found their greatest success on the RateMe subreddits, where people would post pictures of themselves and ask for feedback.

Here, incels were able to promote a more accessible version of their philosophy by disguising looks-maxing language as helpful suggestions.

And this is where things get interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's crazy, right?

Totally.

And how much of this involves incel language meeting relatively normal people and they're just being like, oh, that's kind of funny and adopting it.

So the incel subreddit gets purged in 2017.

At the time of its death, it had about 41,000 members.

Not soon enough.

And after our incels died, as Kat noted earlier, brain cells becomes the new incel gathering hub.

They just changed the name, right?

It's the toothpaste tube effect.