Wordpilled slangmaxxing: how incel language infected the mainstream internet — and brought its toxicity with it

This excerpt from Adam Aleksic's Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The publication is retired connected July 15th.

The modern-­day incel is wholly an invention of the twenty-­first century. Before the internet, lonely men simply didn't person a mode to stitchery and stock ideas. That each began to alteration successful 1997, erstwhile a Canadian pupil started a website called Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project to link with others implicit her shared deficiency of sex. As the sanction implies, the tract wasn't a spot for conscionable consecutive men; rather, it was utilized by radical of immoderate sex oregon intersexual orientation.

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