Jake Davison made YouTube videos for the 'incel' community before shooting five people in Plymouth then turning the gun on himself - PA It should have been a joyful day spent shopping for clothes and ...

‘I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t think at least half the group was crazy,’ Harta* tells me from his home in the US. I can’t see him – like other men in my study into the world of incels, he’s ...

Jack Peterson once sought out the incel community as a struggling teen. A new BBC documentary is getting a lot of attention for exposing a disturbing part of the “Incel” community, a subculture ...

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She’s making a sell to stop incels. A model says she’s planning to have sex with virgin men to give them a “great first experience” and stop them from joining angry incel forums. Cami Strella, who ...

Gender-based violence is one of the most pressing and concerning spheres of contemporary hate and violent extremism. The UN notes that globally, one in three women have been subjected to physical ...

New research reveals why incels are deeply unhappy in their dating lives, or lack thereof. Incels, short for involuntary celibates, refer to an online community of predominantly heterosexual men ...

Roughly 16 percent of men say they feel lonely, while 15 percent of women say the same, according to 2025 data from the Pew Research Center. The difference is fewer men are willing to find help among ...

Some men in the "incel" (involuntary celibate) community want the state to intervene in their dating lives. These sexually frustrated men believe that society is biased against them, so they should be ...

The birth of 'incel' In the late 1990s, a Canadian woman known only as Alana created "Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project," a support group for people of all genders struggling to form romantic or ...

This excerpt from Adam Aleksic’s Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The book is out on July 15th. The modern-­day incel is ...