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Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

So about a couple of weeks before I sat down to write these episodes, on February 6th, 2026, this Twitter post that those of you with the video podcast will see, I'll read it to everybody else, went viral, reaching about 24.5 million people through Twitter's own unreliable counter, but also spreading in screen cap form across every other type of social media.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

I found it like...

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

with something like 20,000 upvotes on Reddit, you know, just in one post.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Like, this is all over the place.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

And there's a good chance you've seen it.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

It's a post from some guy called Chromeheart600, and he writes, Clavicular was mid-jester gooning when a group of foids came and spiked his cortisol levels.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Is ignoring the foids while munting and mogging moids more useful than SMV chadfishing in the club?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

And that's just such, like, that's an insane series of words.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Like, it's completely impenetrable to people who have not spent way too much time online.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

But at the same time, it's like it's kind of enticing.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Like you see this and you're like, well, what the fuck does that mean?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Right.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Like and so I've seen again, once this hits, you get a bunch of people online talking and dissecting all of these terms and then remixing them and taking terms like jester gooning and throwing them out in other circumstances.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Not necessarily even knowing the original use of any of these words, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

And part of why this thing went โ€“ this post went viral, you know, Clavicular was already a very influential streamer and influencer when this post went viral.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

Otherwise, it wouldn't have.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

But it went viral not just because of his actual content.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

but because the post itself was so seemingly absurd with so many new logisms, right?

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

That people didn't know that folks just found themselves compelled to spread it and make fun of it.

Behind the Bastards
Part One: From Elliott Rodger to Clavicular: The Story of Incel Evolution

And by doing that, they kind of helped spread some of these terms around.