Sugiura, L. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this work for both commercial and non-commercial purposes , subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. Private Recruit Minassian Infantry , wishing to speak to Sgt 4chan please. The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys!
All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger! Alek Minassian. Incel or incel-related perpetrators such as Alek Minassian have become the public faces of the community. Their atrocities and the resulting media responses have provided them with notoriety and attention and contributed to raising the profile of incels beyond being a mere online subcultural group.
This notion of a supposed incel insurgency, however, did not originate with Minassian and continues within discussions in the networks today, but what exactly is this incel rebellion and is there active recruitment to the incel cause and community?
Addressing these questions, this chapter focusses on the defining attributes of incels, what makes individuals self-identify as incel and motivations for joining incel communities. The themes in incel language and ideology, as well as the discourse of the wider manosphere, are also considered.
Drawing on empirical research data, this chapter provides insight into how and why young men become incels and whether they are being drawn and effectively radicalised into a hate-fuelled ideology online. Messages and symbolism in mainstream media are appropriated by such online communities to promote their beliefs, whilst their language is increasingly infiltrating common vocabulary, reinforcing misogynistic, homophobic, ableist and racist rhetoric.
