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The core traits of INCELS: Scientists identify 6 key characteristics in disturbed, women-hating men
Lavish new Broadway show closes prematurely... after its A-List star hailed Charlie Kirk in wake of his assassination Tourists warned against visiting 8 popular destinations in 2026 - including European hotspot where locals don't want you I know why Usha Vance ditched her wedding ring. Most women would do the same if they'd suffered her humiliation: KENNEDY Troubled 350lb son of Hollywood icon is forced to humiliating new low... as his movie star brother luxuriates in $7m Montecito mansion Alex appeared to have the dream Manhattan mom life. But she was hiding a dark secret... and it almost killed her Dick's Sporting Goods announces closures with hundreds of Foot Locker stores at risk Billionaire family posts VERY unusual obituary after heir, 40, met violent end at $2.8m hunting lodge following marriage scandal I drink water constantly but have terrible dry mouth. DR KAYE reveals the simple solution to get rid of the problem for good... and the serious immune condition it could be hiding Anna Wintour breaks her silence on Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez sponsoring next year's Met Gala Fury as'biological male' wins World's Strongest Woman event in Texas... as rivals say they had no idea of athlete's background Alleged sex abuse, gay slurs and that'stoned' family dinner: Full details of the explosive feud tearing Richard Dreyfuss and his children apart Visa-dodger from Finland finally gets her just desserts as ICE boots her from American after shocking attack on BABY, mom, and dog'Ponce' World's coolest streets revealed - as two UK high streets make the top 31 Trump's losing control... MAGA's imploding... and White House insiders tell me why they're REALLY worried: ANDREW NEIL Meghan Markle slammed for risky kitchen blunder while promoting As Ever: 'No one lives like this' A new study has shed light on incels, and exactly why some men are more likely to become women-hating recluses. Psychologists in Spain conducted a review of scientific studies about incels - the growing online subculture of'involuntarily celibates'.
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IYKYK: Using language models to decode extremist cryptolects
de Kock, Christine, Riabi, Arij, Talat, Zeerak, Schlichtkrull, Michael Sejr, Madhyastha, Pranava, Hovy, Ed
Extremist groups develop complex in-group language, also referred to as cryptolects, to exclude or mislead outsiders. We investigate the ability of current language technologies to detect and interpret the cryptolects of two online extremist platforms. Evaluating eight models across six tasks, our results indicate that general purpose LLMs cannot consistently detect or decode extremist language. However, performance can be significantly improved by domain adaptation and specialised prompting techniques. These results provide important insights to inform the development and deployment of automated moderation technologies. We further develop and release novel labelled and unlabelled datasets, including 19.4M posts from extremist platforms and lexicons validated by human experts.
My Kid's Teacher Has Assigned My Son a Project That Will No Doubt Turn Him Into an Incel
Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? I've just been informed of an assignment my son "Patrick" was given in middle school. He's to select a topic from a pre-approved list, ask ChatGPT to write an essay about it, submit that essay to the teacher, and then fact-check the essay, looking for things the AI got wrong. I do not want Patrick doing this assignment.
A Lexicon for Studying Radicalization in Incel Communities
Klein, Emily, Golbeck, Jennifer
Incels are an extremist online community of men who believe in an ideology rooted in misogyny, racism, the glorification of violence, and dehumanization. In their online forums, they use an extensive, evolving cryptolect - a set of ingroup terms that have meaning within the group, reflect the ideology, demonstrate membership in the community, and are difficult for outsiders to understand. This paper presents a lexicon with terms and definitions for common incel root words, prefixes, and affixes. The lexicon is text-based for use in automated analysis and is derived via a Qualitative Content Analysis of the most frequent incel words, their structure, and their meaning on five of the most active incel communities from 2016 to 2023.
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Identity Construction in a Misogynist Incels Forum
Yoder, Michael Miller, Perry, Chloe, Brown, David West, Carley, Kathleen M., Pruden, Meredith L.
Online communities of involuntary celibates (incels) are a prominent source of misogynist hate speech. In this paper, we use quantitative text and network analysis approaches to examine how identity groups are discussed on incels-dot-is, the largest black-pilled incels forum. We find that this community produces a wide range of novel identity terms and, while terms for women are most common, mentions of other minoritized identities are increasing. An analysis of the associations made with identity groups suggests an essentialist ideology where physical appearance, as well as gender and racial hierarchies, determine human value. We discuss implications for research into automated misogynist hate speech detection.
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Semantic Knowledge Discovery and Discussion Mining of Incel Online Community: Topic modeling
Jelodar, Hamed, Frank, Richard
Online forums provide a unique opportunity for online users to share comments and exchange information on a particular topic. Understanding user behaviour is valuable to organizations and has applications for social and security strategies, for instance, identifying user opinions within a community or predicting future behaviour. Discovering the semantic aspects in Incel forums are the main goal of this research; we apply Natural language processing techniques based on topic modeling to latent topic discovery and opinion mining of users from a popular online Incel discussion forum. To prepare the input data for our study, we extracted the comments from Incels.co. The research experiments show that Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on NLP models can be effective for semantic and emotion knowledge discovery and retrieval of useful information from the Incel community. For example, we discovered semantic-related words that describe issues within a large volume of Incel comments, which is difficult with manual methods.
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The Case for Redistribution
Better Life Lab is a partnership of Slate and New America. For decades, it's been a mainstream political taboo to make a full-throated case for redistribution. Very suddenly, however, a few conservative commentators have begun to warm up to the idea--but not for the reasons you might suspect. Indeed, what's pushed these conservatives to reconsider the merits of transferring goods and services from the "haves" to the "have-nots" is the rise of the violent "incel"--that is, the involuntarily celibate man who scorns women for "denying" him the sexual gratification he feels is his right. In a recent New York Times op-ed piece, right-leaning columnist Ross Douthat takes seriously the discontent expressed by murderous "incels" (such as Elliot Rodger and, more recently, Toronto van-attack suspect Alek Minassian) and ruminates over the question of whether society ought to use redistributive measures to give these men their "due," the better to pacify them and stave off more violence. To make his case for the "inevitability" of state intervention to satisfy disgruntled incels, Douthat lumps together technocratic, dehumanizing ramblings from the fringes of the libertarian right, on the one hand, and genuinely rigorous and probing leftist philosophical reflections on the matter from Amia Srinivasan, on the other.
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