Number of monthly visits to forums related to largest global incel forum 2022

The largest incel forum in the world is supported and directed by a number of websites that are founded and managed by the same individuals, serving as part of the wider incel community. According to a 2022 report, an average of 4.4 million people per month visited a body image forum that encourages "looksmaxing," the incel term for constantly trying to improve one's physical appearance. Overall, the incel forum itself totaled on average 2.4 million visits per month. The body image, suicide, and unemployment forums promote incel ideology in differing forms. With the exception of the suicide forum, which attracts 750 thousand of monthly visits, all of the websites are male-only forums.

Number of average monthly visits to forums related to the largest dedicated incel internet forum worldwide between April and June 2022 (in millions)

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Release date

September 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

April to June 2022

Special properties

22.5 million visits

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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