Share of posts on the biggest global incel forum including offensive slurs 2021-2022

Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 28, 2022

According to a 2022 report, 16 percent of posts on the largest dedicated incel forum included misogynistic slurs, whilst one in twenty posts on the forum contained racist or antisemitic slurs. Additionally, three percent of all posts contained offensive homophobic slurs. On average, hate speech of some form was present in 21 percent of all postings on the incel forum.

Share of posts on the largest dedicated incel internet forum that include offensive slurs worldwide between January 2021 and July 2022

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Release date

September 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

January 1, 2021 to July 7, 2022

Special properties

1,183,812

Supplementary notes

According to the source:"To avoid promoting the websites investigated in this report, we refrain from naming incel dedicated forums and websites to the best of our ability. The main forum we researched for this report is referred to as “the incel forum” or “the forum,” whilst adjacent forums and websites are described according to their main focus."

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