Robert

But now that there's not any moderation on these forums that have descended from hers, no one's pushing back.

And over time, the women who might have found themselves drawn in the same way that Alana was to communities like this,

We're just looking for a place where they could commiserate on, well, it's kind of hard to find a date.

I don't know how to do this.

I would like some advice.

They stopped showing up because all these places have been colonized by these incredibly toxic, angry young men, right?

And a bunch of those angry young men and a bunch of MRAs all start finding puahate.com, right?

And they start posting on there and they start becoming increasingly radicalized.

I don't think we have a great understanding of why, but even though there's a couple of different groups that kind of come into POAHate.com, they all start adopting the term incel for themselves.

That becomes extremely popular on the forum.

Per The Guardian, it became a place where sexually frustrated men could go to vent and share pseudoscientific theories about women.

And that's the other really important thing, right, is that these guys aren't just complaining no one will date me.

They're developing an ideology, and they're developing a glossary of terms, all of which will work together to explain their theories for why women don't like them.

That's what they start really focusing on.

It stops being, how can I do better?

How can I change?

How can I have more success and love?

It starts being more about, what is it that's fundamentally wrong about how women are hardwired and about how human civilization is constructed that has made this situation so unfair for me?

Because it's obviously not my fault.

That becomes the overwhelming drive here.