Robert

It's always funny to me, because I, too, Kat, love reading incels, like, talk about, like, all of the mountains you have to cross to get, like, a single date, where you have to make sure that, like, your face is no wider than this, but at least this wide, and, like, your nose, like, is positioned at this part of your face, and your eyes are this far apart, and, like, otherwise no one will ever love you, whereas, like, living in the real world, you realize that it's mostly, like...

There's no rules.

It's just people like each other or don't.

Usually because you like someone who's not a dick and who does stuff that you find cool and interesting and is fun to be around and relaxing to be around and doesn't scare you all the time by talking about their bone structure and hitting themselves in the face with a hammer.

These are the things real people want in relationships.

Yeah.

And when you see, like, the stuff incels have talked themselves up into believing they need to do, it's just, like, you really, it really makes sense, like, why there's been so many killings out of this community.

Because it's like, oh, yeah, they're just totally detached from reality, right?

Yes.

And that's what we're going to be talking about today, how this group, because what's interesting is not incels are crazy, and it's not like, oh, wow, clavicular, you know, the lux maxing subculture has its roots in the incel subculture.

It's how has the incel subculture been so influential?

Because almost everyone I know every day uses words that like originally came out of the incel community and have now just become like common Gen Z, Gen Alpha internet slang, right?

Like that's kind of the strangest thing to me about this is despite how fringe and extreme and like toxic and scary the actual incel subculture is, they've also had this like incredible history of like shotgunning terms and concepts into

into mass consciousness.

That's both like really surprising and kind of worrying.

And so that's, that's kind of like what we'll be talking about this week.

Awesome.

And also in a way that the right really struggles to penetrate pop culture, but in cell culture, it hasn't had that issue as much.

Yeah, yeah, it's moved like a fucking knife through butter.

Yeah, it's really been weird.