A British academic who has conducted the biggest study of incel ideology online says it is still growing and appears to be a backlash against feminism.
In recent weeks there have been an increasing number of articles in British media about incels, or involuntary celibates, partly linked to a focus on online misogyny following the arrest of influencer Andrew Tate in Romania.
Lewys Brace, a senior lecturer in computational social science at the University of Exeter, said of the incel community: “It’s grown, and it’s continuing to grow and diversify, not just growing in terms of users, but also in terms of platforms on which the content appears on.”…