Chad

From Middle English Chadde, from Old English Ċeadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint, revived in the 20th century.
The sense of “alpha male” originates from an apparent stereotype that men with such a name tend to bear that temperament, first attested in c. late 1990s in Chicago, Illinois (specifically "successful white man, yuppie"), but in common usage only as of the late 2010s via 4chan slang.

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They are united by the fact that women will not have sex with them, usually attributed to shallow obsessions with looks or superficial personality, and by their hatred of “Chads” and “Stacys”, the men and women who have sex.

2018 April 25, Alex Hern, “Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?”, in The Guardian:

Short for “female humanoid”, it’s used in place of the word “woman” to depict how, in an incel’s view, women are not entirely human, but are instead robot-like androids who only crave sex with Chads.

2018 April 28, Kate Wilson, “Last week in tech: sex robots”, in The Georgia Straight:

(Internet slang, seduction community, incel slang) A very handsome, usually tall man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group.


toilet

→ Japanese: トイレット, トイレ

Krio: tɔylɛt

Tok Pisin: toilet

From Middle French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.

ашьашьма

room used for urination and defecation — see also bathroom, men's room, ladies' room, outhouse, portable toilet, latrine, shitter

toilet

fixture used for urination and defecation — see also flush toilet, squat toilet, chemical toilet, urinal, latrine

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class II § 191. Receptacle


curry

en-noun

curry (countable and uncountable, plural curries)

curries (plural)
currey (alternative obsolete)
currie (alternative archaic)

→ Chinese: 咖哩

→ Czech: kari

→ Danish: karry

→ Icelandic: karrí

→ Dutch: kerrie

→ Irish: curaí

desctree

→ Japanese: カレー (karē)
→ Korean: 카레 (kare)
→ Marshallese: kare

→ Korean: 커리 (keori)

→ Scottish Gaelic: coiridh

→ Russian: ка́рри (kárri)

→ Slovak: karí

→ Swedish: kurry

→ Turkish: köri

→ Vietnamese: cà ri

Forme of Cury
Hannah Glasse
Richard II of England
Singapore

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.
Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of Richard II of England.

[…] while another tells us that white women “are also THE most racist group of foids. they would rather put a bullet through their brain than date a curry or sandcel.”

2020, Anthony Glyn Burton, "'I would do anything to not call this place home': The black pill, involuntary celibacy, and the neoliberal male grasp in digital incel communities", thesis submitted to Ryerson University & York University, pages 92-93

For example, spicycurry says, “STOP THE COPE NOW. The only ones who should be complaining about race are us curries who are literally at the bottom of the pile.”

2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don’t Understand... It’s Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, pages 29-30

People get mixed up by thinking race is #1 because girls aren't going for asians and curries.

2024, anonymous, quoted in Václav Báča, "Hierarchy at the Bottom of the Hierarchy: Involuntary Celibates, Identity, and Race", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 40

(incel slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of South Asian heritage.


rope

en-verb

rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)

ropes (present singular third-person)
roping (participle present)
roped (participle past)
roped (past)

From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above.

In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]

2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 153

ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.”

2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 36

Another man wrote that the only reason he hasn't “roped” (incel terminology for death by suicide) is he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.

2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:

My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

(Internet slang, originally incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.


wizard

4chan
English Renaissance
Fizban the Fabulous
en:wizard

From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval Anglo-Saxon word with no known morphologically exact cognates inside the Germanic family; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance.
However, via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Proto-Celtic *druwits (whence English druid), Proto-Slavic *vědьma (Polish wiedźma, Russian ве́дьма (védʹma)), Russian веду́н (vedún)).
The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme where virgins who are typically friendless, shy, outcasts, and loners who don't fit in anywhere, legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces.

The wizard conjured up a large fireball.

The wily wizard must be caught.

1697, John Dryden, Translation of Virgil's Georgics:

He found himself watching a couple of wizards doing what he at first mistook for the beginning of a dance, and then for a session of tai chi. But suddenly he realized they were signing.

2016 February 2, Diane Duane, Games Wizards Play, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:

But that's not what will make her a powerful wizard – more powerful than me, more powerful than Leesha, even more powerful than you.

2021 November 1, Dale Stubbart, The Wizard Without a Wand, Dale Stubbart:

Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.

Use the "Add Network Connection" wizard to connect to a network in a series of simple steps.

Figure 10-10 shows a typical wizard. The user enters data in New Employee on each tab and then moves on to the next one. This wizard asks […]

2010 September 17, Bill Evjen, Christian Nagel, Rod Stephens, Robert Vieira, Nick Randolph, .NET 4 Wrox PDF Bundle: Professional ASP.NET 4, Professional C# 4, VB 2010 Programmer's Ref, WPF Programmer's Ref, Professional Visual Studio 2010, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 169:

(computing) A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.

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computing: program or script used to simplify complex operations

Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently[…]

1997, Philip Agre and Douglas Schuler, Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Explorations of Computing as a Social Practice, page 153:

It is certainly easy to believe the stories I hear of MUD wizards who demand deference and severely punish those who transgress […]

1997, Sara Kiesler, editor, Culture of the Internet, page 132:

(Internet) One of the administrators of a multi-user dungeon.

mag

internet: administrators of a multi-user dungeon

See how from far upon the eastern road / The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odours sweet!

1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

“I see this image of the basement-dwelling wizard who rejects societal conventions to such an extreme degree as one of the tragic heroes of our times.”

2014 September 23, Joe Zadeh, quoting Jon Rafman, “"Musician rebels embrace darknet to explore uncensored internet frontiers”, in Guardian:

The incels’ folk hero is the 30-year-old virgin wizard – if you can make it to 30 without having sex, you will be endowed with magical powers. And the threads are so pathetic that it is hard to feel anything but ambient pity (on the site Wiz Chan – subtitle “disregard females, acquire magic” – one thread titled How do I live in my sedan? is like a short story).

2018 April 25, Zoe Williams, “‘Raw hatred’: why the 'incel' movement targets and terrorises women”, in The Guardian:

Incels are mostly losers who don’t get laid — involuntarily celibate. Basically it’s a giant pity party that started on the 4chan board R9K. R9K is a board on 4chan where inceldom started. They have their own terms and stuff like that. For example if you’re over 30 and still a virgin they call you a "Wizard."

2018 April 25, Oli Dugmore, “What is an incel? A former member of the internet subculture explains”, in JOE:

(incel slang, sometimes humorous) A virgin over the age of 30 who does not socialize and thus cannot find a sexual partner.


wizard

"We had a wizard show," the young leader of an Australian squadron said, trying to keep the excitement out of his voice.

1942, Quentin James Reynolds, Only the Stars are Neutral:

But he was a wizard flyer, that boy.

1943, Howard Macy Coffin and Walter Leslie River, Malta Story:

(slang, dated, British) Fine, superb (originally RAF slang).


Tyrone

en-prop

Tyrone (countable and uncountable, plural Tyrones)

From Irish Tír Eoghain (literally “land of Eoghan”).

der

The overkingdom of Airgialla comprising Armagh, Monaghan, parts of Louth, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, had ceased to be when the Book of Rights was compiled.

1922, John Ryan, Ireland from A.D. 800 to A.D. 1600, Browne and Nolan, page 282:

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland#English

A county of Northern Ireland, Ireland island, United Kingdom; One of the six traditional counties in Northern Ireland, often known as County Tyrone.


Tyrone

(incel slang) Alternative letter-case form of tyrone.


cope

Etymology tree
Old French couperder.
English cope
From Middle English coupen, from Old French couper (“to strike, to cut”).

etymon

There was some public grousing about the number of white supremacists attempting to recruit, however; some incels argued that white supremacy was just another "cope"–just another self-deluding attempt to cover over the grim truth of the blackpill.

2019, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, unnumbered page:

My only 2 copes for the past 3 years have been food & the internet/surfing. Both of these copes have only hurt me further as I have addictions to both sugar and the internet now and have isolated myself further and further into the oblivion.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Jacob Conley, "Efficacy, Nihilism, and Toxic Masculinity Online: Digital Misogyny in the Incel Subculture", thesis submitted to The Ohio State University, page 18

Just as it sounds, a Gymcel is an incel who goes to the gym a lot, which in their mind is a cope.

2020, Brian Whitney, The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer: The True Story of an Incel Mass Murderer, unnumbered page:

(slang)A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure a hopeless situation.


ascend

en-verb

ascend (third-person singular simple present ascends, present participle ascending, simple past and past participle ascended)

ascends (present singular third-person)
ascending (participle present)
ascended (participle past)
ascended (past)

From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendō (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scandō (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.

Instead of using sexual conquest as an opportunity to “ascend,” these members advocated for pursuing internal self-improvement.

2022, Alyssa Jewel Davis, "Climbing the masculine hierarchy: Examining constructions of masculinity through incel identities", thesis submitted to Clemson University, page 35

As such, race and class are not only factors in attractiveness (i.e. “Just Be White” and “job/career maxxing” are often used in the forums), but is also a factor when incels discuss ways for them to “ascend” and leave their incel status.

2023, Julia R. DeCook, Megan Kelly, “Interrogating the 'incel menace': assessing the threat of male supremacy in terrorism studies”, in Ann-Kathrin Rothermel, Laura J. Shepherd, editors, Gender and the Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism, unnumbered page:

Many femcels take extreme measures to 'ascend from femceldom', and Laura describes how she is in the process of improving her looks and personality.

2023, Maria Brix Rasmussen, "The Lack of Love: The Sacred and the Suffering Experiences of Female Involuntary Celibates", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 57

(incel slang) To cease being an incel, generally by losing one's virginity/having sex, or by forming a romantic relationship.


Stacy

A male given name from Ancient Greek transferred from the surname.

A female given name from Ancient Greek derived from the surname, popular in the 1970s.


Stacy

Stacys (plural)
Stacies (plural)
stacy (alternative)

Incels scoff at Beckys, hoping to score exclusively with Stacys because Stacys alone are the sexual currency that will lead to admiration.

2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, page 41:

While incels rant against Stacys for only paying attention to alpha men, they desire and despise them at the same time for being, according to the incel stereotype, attractive, spoiled, successful, and promiscuous all at once.

2020, Renata Salecl, A Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why, pages 120–121:

Yet, incels want nothing more than to finally be desired by and be with a Stacy.

2022, Bonni Rambatan, Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism:

(Internet slang, chiefly incel slang, sometimes derogatory) An attractive, popular woman who is sexually active, often conceived as the female counterpart of a Chad.


ascension

en-noun

ascension (countable and uncountable, plural ascensions)

From Middle English ascencioun, from Old French ascension, from Latin ascēnsiō, ascēnsiōnem (“ascent”).

In contrast to red pilled ascension thinking, our sample on r/IncelExit urged users to exit inceldom by engaging those strategies for the sake of personal wellbeing and new social capital.

2023, Ruxandra Mihaela Gheorghe, David Yuzva Clement, “'It's time to put the copes down and get to work’: a qualitative study of incel exit strategies on r/IncelExit”, in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, number 1:

“When I see how popular white guys are, I almost start to believe ascension is possible. But then I remember all of my other defects. Like the fact that I'm middle-aged”.

2024, anonymous, quoted in Václav Báča, "Hierarchy at the Bottom of the Hierarchy: Involuntary Celibates, Identity, and Race", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 45

Furthermore, the concept of "ascension" highlights incels' fixation on intimate relationships as the ultimate source of social fulfillment.

2024, S. Verhoef, "Defining female involuntary celibacy: a data-driven study on/r/trufemcels", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, page 43

(incel slang) The act or process of ceasing to be an incel, generally by losing one's virginity/having sex, or entering a romantic relationship.


Becky

Beckys (plural)
Beckies (plural)
Becki (alternative)
Beckie (alternative)

A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca.


poz

Her test results were poz.

At a contentious public meeting to discuss barebacking in New York in 1999, an interesting statement came from a man who described himself as the manager of the nation's largest moderated bareback computer list. He stated almost in passing that the list was “about 98 percent poz guys.”

2002, David Nimmons, The Soul Beneath the Skin, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 74:

I recall when we exchanged our HIV statuses at one point; not tonight. He's poz.

2010, Rick Reed, Tales from the Sexual Underground, page 61:


foid

(geology, colloquial) Clipping of feldspathoid.


foid

Mr. Genco posted on an incel website that he had also shot couples and “foids” — short for “femoids,” an incel term for women — with orange juice from a water gun, which made him feel “spiritually connected to the saint on that day,” according to the indictment.

2021 July 21, Michael Levenson, “‘Incel’ Is Charged With Plotting to Shoot Women, U.S. Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(incel slang, derogatory, offensive) Clipping of femoid.


AMOG

So he watched the body language AMOGs used to lower his status in sets; he observed the eye contact they used to signify to girls that he was a creep; he analyzed the way they’d pat him on the back with so much force that he’d lose his balance.

2005, Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 234:

You start the whole thing by approaching a “set,” then pick a “target,” throw her a “neg,” assess her IOIs, use your wingman to help you with a DHV, then, working your way from the final attraction phase, A3, you change location for C1 through C3, always ready to counter her ASD and disarm or escape the AMOG. Who ever said women were the more complicated sex?

2008, Faye Flam, The Score: How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man, Penguin Group, →ISBN, →OL, page 2:

He backs this up with an understanding of how to annihilate an AMOG—the alpha male of a group—with a vital skill known as ‘amogging’ (making them look stupid).

2011, Anouchka Grose, Why Do Fools Fall in Love: A Realist's Guide to Romance, Tin House Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 197:

(seduction community, incel slang) Initialism of alpha male of group.


incel

incel (countable and uncountable, plural incels)

Blend of involuntary + celibate. Coined by "Alana" in 1997 on an online forum (originally as invcel). Came to widespread usage in the mid-2010s, chiefly online, but now more widespread.

(uncountable, seduction community, informal) "Involuntary celibacy": the state of being not sexually active despite wishing to be.


incel

People who are 'incel' are often suspected as being gay. It's annoying.

2001 May 30, Gra - gra, “I love you!”, in alt.support.shyness (Usenet):

(seduction community) Not having sexual relations despite wishing to.


volcel

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Blend of voluntary + celibate by analogy with incel; also voluntary + -cel.

All of these subsets have a shared loathing of “volcels,” otherwise known as voluntary celibates.

2018 October 30, Judah Weinerman, “Meet incels, the internet's resident anti-women hate brigades”, in The Justice, Brandeis University, page 11:

If you are good-looking, or not ugly enough, you are a volcel, a voluntary celibate.

2019, Thea Høiland, "Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89

One commenter explained he was “a tiny bit of a volcel” since he did not like women from his country because of their personalities.

2020, December Maxwell, Sarah R. Robinson, Jessica R. Williams, Craig Keaton, “'A Short Story of a Lonely Guy': A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Involuntary Celibacy Using Reddit”, in Sexuality & Culture:

(neologism) A person who is voluntarily celibate, i.e., who chooses to avoid sexual activity with other people.


AWALT

I'm from Russia. It's not better there than it is anywhere else... . stop thinking different places are better about women or whatnot. You're forgetting the single most important rule. AWALT [All Women Are Like That].

2019, "CzarCronik", quoted in Amanda DiGioia, Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis, unnumbered page

In expressing any attitude beyond the “it’s over” narrative, or refusing to believe AWALT, the incel is denoted as “coping”, a negatively charged label indicating that you have yet to completely swallow the blackpill, and are therefore naïve and “low IQ”.

2020, Katrine Rummelhoff, "Incels and Misogyny; what’s so appealing about hatred?", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, pages 59-60

Personal stories about unhappy relationships, cheating partners and manipulative ex-wives were often described in detail, usually to illustrate AWALT and serve as the basis for the MGTOW lifestyle.

2020, Scott Wright, Verity Trott, Callum Jones, “‘The pussy ain’t worth it, bro’: assessing the discourse and structure of MGTOW”, in Information, Communication & Society, volume 23:

(manosphere slang) Initialism of all women are like that.


purple pill

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From an advertising slogan for the branded version, Nexium. The incel sense is from a mix of the colors red and blue, modeled after red pill and blue pill.

An esomeprazole tablet, taken to reduce stomach acidity.


truecel

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“If you haven’t raped someone by age 22, you’re prob a truecel for life,” one said. His comment sparked a flurry of furious agreement.

2014 May 29, Sam Clench, “Mass murderer Elliot Rodger's hatred of women is shared by more men than we would like to believe”, in The News (Australia):

There is, for example, a thread discussing whether Joey, in the Vice documentary mentioned in my introduction, is a truecel. He is too good looking, according to many tellers.

2019, Thea Høiland, "Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 90

If u think of urself as a ”mentalcel” ur most likely a truecel in denial

2020, anonymous, quoted in Melinda Karlsson & Terese Wisberg, "'Live to be mogged. The truecel tale': En kritisk diskursanalys av forumen incels.co och looksmax.me", thesis submitted to the University of Gävle, page 38

(incel slang) An incel who has never experienced any form of physical intimacy, including kissing or holding hands, and believes they have (or is believed to have) little to no chance of changing that status.


roastie

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From roast + -ie. The Internet slang sense likens a (promiscuous) woman's vulva to the filling of a roast beef sandwich.

My dad made crispy, rough-edged roasties lovingly cooked in beef dripping but I perversely much preferred the drier, soak-up-the-gravy ones we had at school.

[…] I keep quiet when Billie piles the roasties on my plate, scoffing everything put in front of me.

2013, Niven Govinden, Graffiti My Soul, page 64:

Miriam gave a squawk of dismay as she lifted the lid off the potatoes.
'How are the roasties doing?'

“Shut the fuck up roastie,” wrote anonymous Twitter users with anime images as their avatars.

2019, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, unnumbered page:

Defy me and you will regret it, roastie.

2019, S. J. Maher, Social Misconduct, page 151:

[…] and "Stacy" denotes an attractive "roastie," a promiscuous young woman.

2020, Anne Hendershott, The Politics of Envy, unnumbered page:

(vulgar, derogatory, incel slang) A woman, especially a promiscuous one.


black pill

black pills (plural)
black-pill (alternative)
blackpill (alternative)

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Nihilism sense influenced by preexisting red pill. See there for further explanation.

Once an individual had accessed this page they would be directed to a number of stories that described other candidates, in this case Fillon and Macron, as crooked, and also described French democracy as a broken system (the 'black pill' content).

2018, Jacob Davey, Erin Marie Saltman, Jonathan Birdwell, “The mainstreaming of far-right extremism online and how to counter it: a case study on UK, US and French election”, in Trumping the Mainstream, Routledge, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

They see a dangerous trend in the incel movement: “The spreading of the blackpill would no doubt increase shooting (and suicides) because some young men lose control”.

2019 November, Sylvia Jaki et al., “Online Hatred of Women in the Incels.me Forum: Linguistic Analysis and Automatic Detection”, in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, volume 7, number 2, →DOI:

The first way forum posters express how they deal with depression is through the term “LDAR” or “lay down and rot”. This phrase follows the logic of the blackpill that life is hopeless for incels due to their inability to reach stereotypical standards of masculinity.

2020, Anne Jones, Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online (thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida), page 67:

(often attributive) A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a nihilistic, usually (but not necessarily) far-right philosophy, especially incels who believe unattractive men will never be sexually or romantically successful.


femoid

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Members describe women as “femoids” and the men they have sex with as “chads”.

2017 November 8, Olivia Solon, “'Incel': Reddit bans misogynist men's group blaming women for their celibacy”, in The Guardian:

The user wrote: "Although I don’t condone what celbro Frank Yeager did, normies and femoids need to understand what can happen after you bully us for so long."

2017 November 9, Alexandra Richards, “Reddit bans 'misogynist' group which blamed women for its members' celibacy”, in Evening Standard:

But when they abandon the pursuit of relationships in favor of long-winded posts about their anger toward “femoids,” one’s sympathy wanes.

2018 April 27, Brooke A. Rodgers, “The online ‘incel’ culture is real – and dangerous”, in New York Post:

Alongside the terms used in Minassian’s message, a common idiom in their discussions is “femoid”. Short for “female humanoid”, it’s used in place of the word “woman” to depict how, in an incel’s view, women are not entirely human, but are instead robot-like androids who only crave sex with Chads.

2018 April 28, Kate Wilson, “Last week in tech: sex robots”, in The Georgia Straight:

Mr. Genco posted on an incel website that he had also shot couples and “foids” — short for “femoids,” an incel term for women — with orange juice from a water gun, which made him feel “spiritually connected to the saint on that day,” according to the indictment.

2021 July 21, Michael Levenson, “‘Incel’ Is Charged With Plotting to Shoot Women, U.S. Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(incel slang, derogatory, offensive) A woman.


inceldom

In between all of the blame shifting and backhanded advice, some incels attempt to discuss a solution to their 'inceldom'.

2017, Ed Pitt, "Sick Sad World", Farrago (University of Melbourne), Edition 1 (2017), page 29

If all men knew the truth about modern gender roles, incels argue, proper gender roles could be restored and their inceldom would be at end.^([sic])

2018 October 30, Judah Weinerman, “Meet incels, the internet's resident anti-women hate brigades”, in The Justice, Brandeis University, page 11:

An early study on inceldom, published nearly two decades ago, further suggested that involuntary celibacy is likely a combination of timing and both the sequencing and duration of sexual behavior (or lack thereof), and that there are three types of incels, segmented according to different relationship status (Donnelly, et al., 2001).

2020 April, D. J. Williams, Michael Arntfield, “Extreme Sex-Negativity: An Examination of Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Misattribution of Blame Among 'Incel' Multiple Homicide Offenders”, in Journal of Positive Sexuality, volume 6, number 1, page 35:

The framing of inceldom as an “adverse life circumstance”, repeated across the Wiki, lends credibility to the framing used by incels who wish to dissociate themselves from the common descriptions of incels as a ‘movement’, ‘ideology’ or ‘community’.

2023 January 18, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present themselves in their own words on the incel Wiki”, in Institute for Strategic Dialogue, page 5:

The state of being involuntarily celibate.


LDAR

Initialism of leak detection and repair.


LDAR

en-verb

LDAR (third-person singular simple present LDARs, present participle LDARing, simple past and past participle LDARed)

LDARs (present singular third-person)
LDARing (participle present)
LDARed (participle past)
LDARed (past)

It is an ideology that breeds despair, and, thus, perhaps the only solution one might find is to LDAR – or, failing that, seek retributionary violence.

2020, Emily Price, "We live in a society: Violence and radicalization in the Internet Manosphere", thesis submitted to Arcadia University, page 18

In “taking the blackpill” incels admit to themselves that “its over”, that no amount of effort will change the way they are perceived, and that they may as well give up and LDAR (lay down and rot).

2020, Katrine Rummelhoff, "Incels and Misogyny; what’s so appealing about hatred?", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 30

However, even taking the blackpill and accepting this harsh reality, some of them are reluctant to LDAR (“Lay Down and Rot”), choosing instead to do what they can to try to ascend.

2021, Will Gerdes-McClain, "Differents: Essays About a Human (and Humans)", thesis submitted to Georgia College, page 104

(incel slang) Initialism of lie down/lay down and rot (“to resign oneself to the hopelessness and unchangeability of one's circumstances, especially as a single, unattractive male”).


-cel

A clipping derived from incel. A highly-productive suffix; compare the more offensive -fag, which may have partly inspired it. First attested in c. late 2010s.
Possibly influenced by honorific Japanese suffixes associated with anime and manga culture (as with 4chan suffix above), like -kun, -chan, etc.

curry + -cel → currycel (“an Indian incel”)

rice + -cel → ricecel (“an Asian incel”)

gym + -cel → gymcel (“an incel who works out”)

(incel slang) Denoting a type of incel (often through a stereotype).


tyrone

Decapitalization of Tyrone.
From the prominence of the male given name "Tyrone" among African-Americans.

(incel slang) A black man who is successful with women and dating.


stacy

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During the rampage by former student Nikolas Cruz at a Florida high school in September 2017, incel communities were desperately rooting for the killer in the same ironic idiom: scorning the 'normies, stacies and chads' and praying the 'HERO' with the gun would also be 'ugly'.

2020, Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine, page 133:

When news emerged of Arzaga's murder, I saw incel forum members describe it as “good news” and suggest that “nothing of value was lost,” as they assumed “she may be a stacy since she works in a spa.”

2021, Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:

(incel slang) Alternative form of Stacy (“attractive woman who is sexually active”).


femcel

Fiona, a femcel I speak to on Reddit, has a similar outlook on misogyny within the incel community.

2018 December 5, Nick Chester, “Meet the women of the incel movement”, in Huck:

While male incel culture has been exhaustively analysed, femcels have largely been ignored.

2020 February 19, Arwa Mahdawi, “Why do we only care about incels when they are men?”, in The Guardian:

A “femcel support group” on Facebook, with over 800 members, offers a safe space for women who self-define as involuntarily celibate, […]

2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:


black piller

black pillers (plural)
blackpiller (alternative)

But in contrast to a therapeutic mode of connecting with others, this nihilistic network does not seek to overcome its condition: Black Pillers accept their fate and even dwell in its finality.

2019, Jack Bratich, Sarah Banet-Weiser, “From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: Con(fidence) Games, Networked Misogyny, and the Failure of Neoliberalism”, in International Journal of Communication, volume 13, page 5017:

Hate and revenge are the principal driving satisfactions for Blackpillers targeted at women (especially fat women and Indian and Asian women because they only want to have sex with "Chads"); […]

2019, Stephanie Swales, Carol Owens, Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch, unnumbered page:

Some biological essentialists blackpillers promote fatalism, believing that it is impossible to change female nature (gender essentialism), so we should just "give up".

2020, Incels.co wiki, quoted in Anne Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 66

A person who has adopted a nihilistic and often far-right philosophy, especially an incel who believes men's dating success is determined purely by their physical appearance.


looksmaxx

looksmaxx (third-person singular simple present looksmaxxes, present participle looksmaxxing, simple past and past participle looksmaxxed)

looksmaxxes (present singular third-person)
looksmaxxing (participle present)
looksmaxxed (participle past)
looksmaxxed (past)
looksmax (alternative)

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Incel culture advises men to “looksmaxx” or “statusmaxx”—to improve their appearance, to make more money—in a way that presumes that women are not potential partners or worthy objects of possible affection but inconveniently sentient bodies that must be claimed through cold strategy.

2018 May 15, Jia Tolentino, “The Rage of the Incels”, in The New Yorker:

Some attempt to “looksmaxx” with money by finding methods of increasing their sexual market value like getting plastic surgery.

2020, Annie Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 48

This can be achieved through one of two ways: by ‘looksmaxxing’ or improving one’s physical characteristics in order to become more attractive (Chapter Four) or through the ‘just be white’ (JBW) theory.

2020, Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, page 79

(transitive, intransitive, slang, originally incel slang) To seek to enhance one's physical appearance to increase one's sexual market value.


currycel

From curry + -cel, referencing the stereotype of curry as a staple of Indian cuisine.

Currycel teen, extreme manlet (5'5 3/4 but I say 5'6 so I can make myself seem taller), incel because I am curry in the west, and if you are ethnic in the west you are fucked unless you can pass as either white, latino or black.

2019, anonymous, quoted in Clara Rubertsson, "'The majority of females are selfish and don’t want to help us lonely men out': En netnografisk studie om män som är incels", thesis submitted to Lund University, page 33

Particularly for self-described ‘currycels,’ there seemed to be a consensus that white Incels held a higher value on the sexual market.

2020, Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, page 83

So are you suggesting me to stay in india among currycels where I earn mediocre salary?

2022 June 18, Ksenija Bogetic, anonymous quotee, “Race and the language of incels: Figurative neologisms in an emerging English cryptolect”, in English Today, volume 39, number 2:

(incel slang, often offensive) An incel of South Asian (especially Indian) heritage.


ricecel

From rice + -cel, referencing the fact that rice is a staple food in East Asia.

As with some other incel terms, this manages to come remarkably close to a structural critique of racism and white supremacy, but the underlying reasoning that ricecels use is almost always grounded in the evolutionary psychology of women, rather than socially constructed structures of oppression.

2020, Whiteaker A. James, “The Story of the 'Incel Saint': A Rhetorical Analysis of Elliot Rodger's My Twisted World”, in Shayna Engdahl, editor, Source 2020: Conference Proceedings, page 150:

Bitter pill to swallow for ricecels: we are inferior to white men in every possible way.

Picture a dead average ricecel working in computer related field. Me so horny, me so sad, me so over

2022, Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo, anonymous quotee, “An analysis of self-other representations in the incelosphere: Between online misogyny and self-contempt”, in Discourse & Society, volume 34, number 1:

(incel slang, often offensive) An incel of East Asian (especially Chinese) heritage.


mentalcel

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Joey, on the other hand, claims he is a mentalcel: involuntary celibate due to his mental challenges.

2019, Thea Høiland, "Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 90

We even have research confirming that 'mentalcels' struggle in the same way high-functioning autistic adolescents struggle when it comes to relationships.

2019, “Dr. Castle”, in The Blackpill Theory: Why Incels Are Right & You Are Wrong, page 143:

Some suspect that gay men are using this site and attempt to ostracize them from it. Others insist that mental illness is not an excuse for someone to be an incel. Jewsel does both in the same comment: “Well, you are severe gaycel, or an extreme mentalcel. Just go to therapy and stop being this loli creepy guy and you would escape inceldom easily.”

2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don’t Understand... It’s Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 31

(incel slang) Someone who is an incel due to mental illness or a psychological disorder.


Chadlite

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Because redpillers are usually normies or Chadlites while incels are ugly low-value males that women feel innately repulsed by.

2018, anonymous, quoted in Rebecca Karlén, "Incels: En kartläggning av diskursen på forumet incels.is", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 31

This story starts with the sentence: “When you hear the foid above you gets pushed down the stairs by her Chadlite bf but she gets up and goes back to him” (A), accompanied by an image of Pepe the frog laughing so hard he has to dry tears from his eyes (see image 4).

2019, Thea Høiland, "Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 74

One user states: “They don’t give a shit about us. Nobody does. That’s why I have no problem if any of us starts killing as many people as possible. The more young women, Chads, Chadlites, normies, cucks, and Boomers who get slaughtered, the better”.

2019 November, Sylvia Jaki, Tom De Smedt, Maja Gwóźdź, Rudresh Panchal, Alexander Rossa, Guy De Pauw, “Online Hatred of Women in the Incels.me Forum: Linguistic Analysis and Automatic Detection”, in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, volume 7, number 2:

(incel slang) A man of a slightly lower ranking on a scale of physical attractiveness than Chad.


looksmatch

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Overwhelmingly incels (and men in general) want to date someone they consider to be their "looksmatch."

2019, “Dr. Castle”, in The Blackpill Theory: Why Incels Are Right & You Are Wrong, page 31:

Body dysmorphia “was invented by old psychologists who grew up in the Fifties and had NO problem to find a looksmatch [someone who is your counterpart in terms of appearance] or even better-looking wife”, noted another.

2019 June 8, Alice Hines, “Men are having their faces rebuilt – and it’s all to get a date”, in The Times, UK:

High iq. If all those things happened giving us an equal playing field it would be like before feminism, and foids [women] wouldn't be as picky with men around their looksmatch, probably even willing to settle for less than their looksmatch since usually men make more money.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Annie Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 57

(incel slang) A person of equal ranking to another on a scale of physical attractiveness.


betabux

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From beta + bux, the second component being a leetspeak-influenced respelling of bucks (“money”), from the phrase alpha fucks, beta bucks.

They reproduce with "genetically inferior" men just fine. They don't usually reproduce with chads because they use birth control, they wait until they turn 35 and find some betabux cuck to have giga incel kids with.

Chad has to work hard to avoid having kids, roasties will beg for condoms off and lie about birth control to get his seed. … Meanwhile normie betabux can’t even be sure that his one kid is biologically his. The foid could’ve cheated on him while ovulating and his blue pilled ass would never know.

2019, anonymous, quoted in Stephane J. Baele, Lewys Brace & Travis G. Coan, "From 'Incel' to 'Saint': Analyzing the violent worldview behind the 2018 Toronto attack", Terrorism and Political Violence

For one user “Hoping to go back to uni so I can moneymaxxx and not die of a lack of healthcare in this American shithole country. If I can get enough money, some foid will at least want me to be her betabuxx provider.”

2020, anonymous, quoted in Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, page 54

(incel slang, derogatory) A beta male who acts as a provider for a woman who has decided to finally settle down.


incelosphere

Almost 1,000 references to dehumanising misogyny or violent action are recorded each day in the “incelosphere” as the toxicity of male supremacist content continues to intensify.

2022 October 30, Mark Townsend, “Experts fear rising global ‘incel’ culture could provoke terrorism”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2023-12-03:

2023 June, Lewys Brace, Stephane J. Baele, Debbie Ging, “Where do ‘mixed, unclear, and unstable’ ideologies come from? A data-driven answer centred on the incelosphere”, in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism:

(Internet, neologism) The online communities where incels communicate.


fakecel

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While some posters questioned whether Minassian, 25, was a “fakecel” — the term for someone whose average looks disqualifies him from community membership — most hailed him as a hero of the movement.

2018, NBC News, After Toronto attack, online misogynists praise suspect as 'new saint':

Thus Peterson was called a “fakecel.” No, Peterson says, that’s wrong. He definitely still is an incel. He is a part of the group. Where then does he now belong?

2018, Daily Beast, Sympathy for the ‘Incel’:

Shut the f*** up you fakecel (ph). Like, oh, well, if you had any experience, then you can get another one eventually.

2019, NPR Invisibilia, The End of Empathy:

Others insist that race alone does not make someone an incel. For example, spicycurry says, “Arab men can get Indonesian/Pakistani/Back girls without a problem. If you only try for white girls then you are a fakecel.”

Anyone who successfully interacts with women is instantly branded a "fakecel" - meaning "fake incel".

2020, BBC, Toronto van attack: Inside the dark world of 'incels':

The following expressions recur with particular frequency: "Looksmaxing" (the business of personal self-improvement and cosmetic surgery); "NEET" ("Not in education, employment, or training"); "LDAR" ("Lay Down and Rot"); "AWALT" ("All Women Are Like That"); "Roped" (to have committed suicide) "Statusmaxx" (to make more money); "Manlet" (a short incel); "Volcel" (voluntary celibate); "Marcels" (married incels); and "Fakecels" (those who falsely claim to be an incel).

[2020 September 24, Simon Cottee, “Incel (E)motives: Resentment, Shame and Revenge”, in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, volume 44, number 2, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

(incel slang) Someone who claims to be incel, despite having had some success in romance and dating.


lifefuel

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When Stephen Paddock massacred dozens of “normies” at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Reddit’s incels celebrated the news as “PURE LIFEFUEL.”

2018 May 5, David Futrelle, “The Time For 'Incel' Explainers Was Years Ago”, in Huffington Post:

In the wake of the Toronto van attacks, for example, Minassian was celebrated not merely as a giver of “lifefuel” to the incels, but also as a prophet of black pill ideology—someone whose destruction of the normies would herald a wider apocalypse.

2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:

An example of a LifeFuel thread is titled “Whore crying because her chad bf murdered (sic)”, where a woman’s boyfriend was killed in a terrorist attack and incels responded saying “lmao cry little whore”.

2020, Katrine Rummelhoff, "Incels and Misogyny; what’s so appealing about hatred?", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 59

(incel slang) Something that causes one to feel schadenfreude or nihilistic satisfaction, especially over the suffering of women.


wagecuck

wagecucks (plural)
wage-cuck (alternative)

From wage + cuck (“weakling or traitor”).

Have fun at your lame-ass nine to five, wagecuck.

This Ressentiment, this focus on extolling the virtues of the ‘weak’ in any situation calls back to Anonymous’ gestation on 4chan, a place which to this day still frequently sees similar discussion among people who are (or claim to be) desperately poor, disaffected or lonely; using a shield of Ressentiment against so-called ‘wage-cucks’ or ‘normies’ with jobs, houses or who have any kind of genuine emotional connection to another human being.

2017, Benjamin Thomas Collins, "Who Are Anonymous?: A Study of Online Activism", thesis submitted to King's College London, page 276

I've written a lot and looking back, I wonder why I wrote all this (probably sound like a wagecuck but hey, I probably am one). So let's just end off with this: hire me plz.

2020, "Gradient descent", "How To Create A Company That Co-Op Students Thirst After", mathNEWS (University of Waterloo), 10 July 2020, page 9

Average man is a crippling lonely wagecuck with two childhood friends and a 7 year long dryspell [sic].

2021, anonymous, quoted in Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 62

(Internet slang, originally incel slang, derogatory) A person who works a mindless, low-paying job.


alpha fucks, beta bucks

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Be the guy who's large and in charge because alpha fucks, beta bucks yo.

2018, Jennifer Wright, Why Incels Hate Women (from Harper's Bazaar Web site); quoted in: 2020, John Casperson, What If God Has a Vagina?: Why Eve Took the Rap
Alphas are supposedly men who trigger lust in women, because women settle down with betas only because they offer financial stability. Or, as they pithily term it “alpha fucks, beta bucks.” When you look at the men who are labeled alphas and betas, though, you'll notice it gets weird in a way that might surprise you if you are a woman or a normal human.

This gets into the Alpha-fucks-beta-bucks concept discussed in the previous chapter. As soon as you get to know a girl, she has designated you either as a nice guy who can provide emotional and (possibly) financial support, but isn't attractive to have sex with, or an Alpha whose clear purpose is only for sex but can't be trusted for anything else.

2019, Adam Glasier, Online Dating For Men 101: How to Find, Date, Attract, Connect, and Get Into Great Relationships with Women from Online Dating:

The following, according to popular belief across the manosphere, is the dual biological imperative of what women are attracted to:
1. physical attraction (genes)
2. life comforts (resources)
When writers in the manosphere discuss “Alpha Fucks, Beta Bucks” this is essentially the dynamic they are referring too^([sic]).

2019, Dr. Lukas Castle, The Blackpill Theory: why incels are right & you are wrong, page 155:

(vulgar, slang) Women prefer sex with alpha males but are willing to use beta males as a source of financial support.

альхва ябе, а бэта грошы дае

Women see alpha males as sexual partners, while beta males merely as source of money


currywhore

From curry + whore, referencing the stereotype of curry as a staple of Indian cuisine.

Both noodle and curry whores are self-hating scum

2019, anonymous, quoted in Stephane J. Baele, Lewys Brace, & Travis G. Coan, "From 'Incel' to 'Saint': Analyzing the violent worldview behind the 2018 Toronto attack", Terrorism and Political Violence

Whose only purpose is to move the west, work and study while white chad fucks curry stacy (white guys hate currywhores).

2022 June 18, Ksenija Bogetic, anonymous quotee, “Race and the language of incels: Figurative neologisms in an emerging English cryptolect”, in English Today, volume 39, number 2:

(incel slang, vulgar, derogatory, ethnic slur) A woman of South Asian (especially Indian) heritage.


gymcel

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Most likely, they will end up being gymcels, i.e. incels who go to the gym trying to improve their bodies.

2020, Sara Brzuszkiewicz, “Incel Radical Milieu and External Locus of Control”, in The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague (ICCT) Evolutions in Counter-Terrorism, volume 2, page 6:

lmao at all of the gymcels telling me I'm wrong but not realising their gymcelling has failed to attract a single girl which actually proves my point

2020, anonymous, quoted in Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 54

It was chosen as it is one of the most viewed and commented threads on the forum. “[Tinder Experiment] Ugly gymcel gets hot Tinder matches! [Spicy thread] [GTFIH]” from the 14/1, 2018. This thread is also a “Tinder experiment” thread and was chosen because of the same criteria as the previous thread.

2021, anonymous, quoted in Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 24

(incel slang) An incel who works out to become more physically fit and improve their sexual market value.


suifuel

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The ‘blackpills’ (read: hopeless nihilists) amongst them share ‘suifuel’ (suicidal rant) posts stating there’s no hope, and encouraging fellow incels to kill themselves.

2020 February 19, Jake Hall, “Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel”, in Dazed:

i went through one of my chad coworker’s social media. Worst decision of my life, absolute suifuel. 500 likes on every picture.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Emma Nyström, "'What becomes of the broken-hearted?': En socialantropologisk studie om männen som kallar sig incels", thesis submitted to Lund University, page 28

For me it is pure suifuel when I meet girls in my age group. Knowing that I have no chance with them makes me really sad. Hopefully my upcoming nose surgery will change that, let's hope so.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Kirsti Sippel, "'Tuhoutukoot naiset maailmani mukana': Incel paineen varaventtiilinä, ideologiana ja yhteiskunnallisena ilmiönä", thesis submitted to the University of Turku, page 36

(incel slang) Something which causes or intensifies suicidal ideation and feelings of hopelessness.


gigachad

gigachads (plural)
Gigachad (alternative)
GigaChad (alternative)

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From giga- + Chad (“a very attractive man”). Although isolated uses exist earlier, the term was popularized by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /pol/ board on October 17th, 2017, who referred to Russian model Ernest Khalimov as "Gigachad". See Gigachad for more.

Coordinate term: gigastacy

How can I compete when I get mogged by gigachads as soon as I step outside?

>wearing raybans cause its a private wealthyfag school
 >looks are on GigaChad level
 >bitch is mirin

2015 November 8, 4chan, /b/, archived from the original on 2024-02-16:

A forum commenter applied this definition to a woman he saw on social media, "…the foid [woman] had all the gigastacy [rated 10 on the scale] traits, she was hot, blonde, wore makeup, wears skimpy clothes, popular, parties, and her boyfriend is a muscular bodybuilder gigachad."

2020, anonymous, quoted in Annie Jones, "Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online", thesis submitted to the University of Central Florida, page 76

Those that land in the top 20 percent of the scale earn some variant of “Chad” as a designation, varying from the low-tier "Chadlites" to the ultimate "Gigachad."

2020, Nate Gallagher, "The Blackpill and the Suffering Apparatus: Science, Masculinity, and Race as Represented on Involuntary Celibate (Incel) Virtual Forums", thesis submitted to Dartmouth College, page 62

if you were a foid with the infinite SMV [Sexual market value] that having eggs grants, and every guy on the planet wanted to fuck you, and getting fucked by chads is the biggest source of happiness chemicals possible, wouldn’t you also get fucked by gigachads all day long?

2021, anonymous, quoted in Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 58

(slang, originally incel slang) An exceptionally handsome man, having an even higher level of attractiveness than a Chad.

I heard Robert just donated $500 to Team Trees. What an absolute gigachad!

I have a lot of respect to Tarik for being a gigachad.

2022 March 27, Olivia Richman, “Doublelift calls Tarik "gigachad" for condemning JasonR's sexist behavior”, in Inven Global, archived from the original on 2024-02-05:

As per his IGN interview, LMSH took 242 tries to beat Malenia on his own. After this, he just decided that no other player has to suffer the same fate he did. What an absolute GigaChad.

2022 April 18, RJ Pierce, “Legendary 'Elden Ring' Player 'Let Me Solo Her' Is Now Immortalized In A Mod”, in Tech Times, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

His meteoric rise from ironic gigachad to actual gigachad is a huge story in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but he just one-upped his own reputation. In an RMR match against Ecstatic, HooXi scored an insane HLTV rating of 2.21.

2022 October 5, Kenneth Williams, “HooXi just outfragged the rest of G2 against Ecstatic”, in WIN.gg, archived from the original on 2023-09-25:

(by extension, Internet slang, sometimes sarcastic) An extremely admirable man; a Chad among Chads.


dogpill

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From dog + pill, after the pattern of red pill.

Materials concerning roasties (where women's labia are compared to a roast beef sandwich) and the dogpill (where women are described as engaging in bestiality rather than having sex with incels) ended up being so ludicrous, that any initial shock or revulsion was diffused and ended up having comedic effect, not at women's expense, but at the sheer absurdity of incel's imagination.

2020, Lisa Sugiura, “Engaging with Incels: Reflexivity, Identity and the Female Cybercrime Ethnographic Researcher” (chapter 24), in Anita Lavorgna, Thomas J. Holt, editors, Researching Cybercrimes: Methodologies, Ethics, and Critical Approaches, →DOI, →ISBN, page 486:

Relevant to this quote is the Incel ”theory” of the ”Dogpill” which argues that women are more likely, and prefer, to have sex with dogs over ugly men.

2021, Hugo Engholm, The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus, Uppsala: University of Uppsala, page 58:

Or “take the dogpill,” meaning to acknowledge the fact that women would prefer to have sexual intercourse with a dog before an incel, and (according to commonly accepted wisdom in the incel community) many do.

2021, Will Gerdes-McClain, Differents: Essays About a Human (and Humans), Milledgeville: Georgia College, page 95:

(incel slang) The notion that women would rather engage in bestiality than have sex with unattractive men.


surgerymaxx

surgerymaxx (third-person singular simple present surgerymaxxes, present participle surgerymaxxing, simple past and past participle surgerymaxxed)

surgerymaxxes (present singular third-person)
surgerymaxxing (participle present)
surgerymaxxed (participle past)
surgerymaxxed (past)

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If you ever surgerymaxx, make sure to only pump and dump and never "fall in love".

2020, anonymous, quoted in Emma Nyström, "'What becomes of the broken-hearted?': En socialantropologisk studie om männen som kallar sig incels", thesis submitted to Lund University, page 43

I just want to surgerymaxx so I don’t have to see myself become old as an ugly man.

2020, "Barnacle", quoted in Alva Svenning & Moa Åkne, "'Normies don't know hardship': Incels och kvinnoförakt på digitala forum", thesis submitted to Lund University, page 22

There are constant posts announcing plans to or providing updates on a member’s plan to ‘surgerymaxx,’ ‘thugmaxx’ or some other type of ‘maxxing.’

2021, Will Gerdes-McClain, "Differents: Essays About a Human (and Humans)", thesis submitted to Georgia College, page 104

(incel slang) To undergo cosmetic surgery to enhance one's physical appearance in a bid to increase one's sexual market value.


gaycel

One of the most actively repudiated members of Incel forums are Femcels as well as Incels from the LGBTQ community, commonly referred to as “Gaycels” who are actively met with great hostility, shut out, and blocked from Incel forums.

2019, Farshad Labbaf, “United By Rage, Self-Loathing, And Male Supremacy: The Rise of the Incel Community”, in INvoke: Gender, Colonization, and Violence, volume 5, page 19:

He feels depressed, disconnected from the gay community, and ostracised by his fellow incels, who respond to his nihilistic posts with the argument that ‘gaycels’ are always ‘volcels’ (voluntarily celibate), a rationale which stems from the untrue stereotype that gay guys can always get laid.

2020 February 19, Jake Hall, “Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel”, in Dazed:

Jewsel does both in the same comment: “Well, you are severe gaycel, or an extreme mentalcel. Just go to therapy and stop being this loli creepy guy and you would escape inceldom easily.”

2020, "Jewsel", quoted in Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 25


pinkpill

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From pink + pill, after the pattern of red pill, and because of the association of pink with femininity.

Interestingly, other pills, such as the purplepill and pinkpill, hint at some being undecided about whether dating is skewed in favour of one group or another and to femcels or female involuntarily celibates.

2020, Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 10

Femcels often refer to "Pink Pill" philosophy, a similarly desolate understanding of human nature in which sexually undesirable women are the victims of society's in-built "lookism," an immovable prejudice based on physical appearance.

2021, Jilly Boyce Kay, “Abject Desires in the Age of Anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability”, in Suzanne Leonard, Diane Negra, editors, Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture, unnumbered page:

The former occurs within the context “have you taken the pinkpill yet” and the latter within “amalt what are your thoughts on this”.

2021, anonymous, quoted in Irina Levit, "'Foids have no soul, they are not human': A sociological examination of the language used by an online male supremacy group", thesis submitted to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, page 52

(incel slang) A notional pill taken by femcels (female incels) who have adopted a nihilistic philosophy that unattractive women will never be sexually or romantically successful.


moid

Presumably from male + -oid, after the pattern of foid, itself a clipping of femoid.

[…] not to mention foids calling themselves femcels for not getting a Chad and copying many of our viewpoints and perspectives and terms(LOL Pinkpill? Moids?), […]

2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 162

Does this moid even know the meaning of the term ‘butterface’? If this woman is ugly, there is no hope for most of the female population.

2021, anonymous, quoted in Ella Guest, Bertie Vidgen, Alexandros Mittos, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson, & Helen Margetts, "An Expert Annotated Dataset for the Detection of Online Misogyny", Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2021), page 1343

No one here will be debating with any moids about her femcel status.

2021, Trufemcels Reddit, quoted in Jilly Boyce Kay, "Abject Desires in the Age of Anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability", Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture (eds. Suzanne Leonard & Diane Negra), unnumbered page


go ER

go ER (third-person singular simple present goes ER, present participle going ER, simple past went ER, past participle gone ER)

goes ER (present singular third-person)
going ER (participle present)
went ER (past)
gone ER (participle past)

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Initialism referring to Elliot Rodger, who carried out a series of deadly mass shootings in Isla Vista, California, in 2014 with the intent of punishing women for rejecting him and men he envied.

As far as I know, femoids going ER are extremely rare or maybe non-existent.

2018, anonymous, quoted in Rebecca Karlén, "Incels: En kartläggning av diskursen på forumetincels.is", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 30

Arguably, the most effective way to prevent an incel from “going ER” is by proactively addressing his suicidal impulses.

2020, Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware, Ezra Shapiro, “Assessing the Threat of Incel Violence”, in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, volume 43, number 7:

Yes, because there will always be some self-proclaimed incel out there who will go ER.

2021, anonymous, quoted in Rosa Auf der Strasse & Ebba Philipson, "My loneliness is killing me (and everyone else): En kvalitativ studie om hur incels diskuterar våld online", thesis submitted to Kristianstad University, page 29

(incel slang) To commit an indiscriminate mass murder, particularly one that targets women.


soycuck

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Guys today are either soycucks, limp pussy-whipped foid worshippers or violent impulse lunatics that don’t understand the term restraint.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, pages 70-71

It is only jealous older roasties and soy cucks, who complain about men fucking younger females (Especially if it is an ugly man).

2020, anonymous, quote in Katri-Maaria Kyllönen, "'The Incel Rebellion Has Already Begun!': Diskurssianalyysi vihan oikeutuksen representaatioista Incels.co -palstan keskusteluissa", thesis submitted to the University of Lapland, page 65

Fifth, it pisses off normies, soycucks and feminists.

2020, Brian Whitney, The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer: The True Story of an Incel Mass Murderer:

(incel slang, derogatory) A weak or effeminate man; a beta male.


gigastacy

en-noun

gigastacy (plural gigastacys or gigastacies)

gigastacys (plural)
gigastacies (plural)

/ˈɡɪɡəˌsteɪsi/

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A forum commenter applied this definition to a woman he saw on social media, “...the foid [woman] had all the gigastacy [rated 10 on the scale] traits, she was hot, blonde, wore makeup, wears skimpy clothes, popular, parties, and her boyfriend is a muscular bodybuilder gigachad.”

2020, Annie Jones, “Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(incel slang) An exceptionally attractive Stacy.


escortcel

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Escortcels arent even incels to begin with it.

2020, "yeshualla", quoted in Ingrid Frantzen, "'Verden er Chads lekeplass': En analyse av incels som gruppe i dagens samfunn", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page 19

Legal prostitution won't fix inceldom. Escortcels […] exist for a fucking reason. Inceldom isn't about sex, but validation.

2020, Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 52

dont give a fuck about normal chads who use hookers but escortcels are absolutely desperate retards who had to cheat ""ascension"" through betabuxx.

2021, anonymous, quoted in Eirik Sande, "Verdiløse menn: En kvalitativ studie av kjønn, erotisk kapital ogfellesskap blant incels på internett", thesis submitted to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, page 46

(incel slang) An incel who has sex by hiring a sex worker.


incelism

Incelism tends to generalize beyond just a disdain for women and reflects a general contempt for the world at large.

2019, Ramani S. Durvasula, "Don't You Know Who I Am?", page 314:

Incelism or 'involuntary celibacy' culture is on the rise, with online radicalisation being the main cause of this, and attacks of terror from such groups are becoming more common.

2021 September 17, Eve Hebron, “How gen Z women are tackling gaslighting and abuse one TikTok at a time”, in SCREENSHOT Media:


framecel

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From frame (“the structure of a person's body”) + -cel.

suffix

Being a framecel/wristcel is fucking killing me.

2019, "Nicotene", quoted in Alva Svenning & Moa Åkne, "'Normies don't know hardship': Incels och kvinnoförakt på digitala forum", thesis submitted to Lund University, page

Blackpill Brainlets to Framecels; How the contrasting imperatives between natural selection and sexual selection may have helped create incels

2020, incel forum thread title, quoted in Ida Lewenhaupt, "Passive radicalisation without mobilisation: A narrative of collective identities and emotions as driving forces of online radicalisation", thesis submitted to Swedish Defence University, page 58

Gymceling helps you look more robust if you are a framecel

2020, anonymous, quoted in Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 54

(incel slang) An incel with the skeletal structure of an adolescent boy.


clowncel

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The thing about Joker that specifically appeals to clowncels is the heroic mirage imparted on the Joker.

2019, Caroline Cabe, "Inside Todd Phillips’ Joker and the Rise of the ‘Clowncel’, The Texas Orator, 22 October 2019

As for Joker, after the FBI warned of mass-shooting threats from so-called “Clowncels,” some theaters in the United States banned makeup and costumes during the screening of Phillips’s movie (Margolin and Katersky).

2021 March, Manuel Herrero-Puertas, “Super Whitman 1885”, in Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, volume 47, number 1, page 311:

There is a key difference here, however, in that clowncels seem to replace the self-pitying discourse common in incel forums with anger towards the rich and the powerful.

2021, Aylin Kuryel, “Looking at and with images: Crowds in Joker, Joker in the crowd”, in Sean Redmond, editor, Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy, unnumbered page:

(incel slang) An incel who identifies with the Joker from the Batman franchise.


rentoid

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From rent + -oid, influenced by incel slang such as femoid.

I fuck more girls on my parents couch than you ever will in your no frame bed rentoid

2021 February 25, @CogumeloImperor, Twitter:

Although it started explicitly as bait, the Landchad/Rentoid dichotomy, and specifically the way in which landlords can treat renters as inferior and even contemptible, reflects a real world dynamic.

2021 March 3, Gita Jackson, “Where People Pretend to Be 'Landchads' and Make Fun of 'Rentoids'”, in VICE:

Describing themselves as well-fed "Landchads" and their tenants as despicable "Rentoids" who waste their money on expensive coffee and Funko Pops, the supposed property owners who hang out in this forum trade stories of evicting single moms, neglecting repairs and the common prejudice they face (aka "landphobia").

2022 July 11, Miles Klee, “Now Everyone Can Experience the Joy of Being a Heartless Landlord”, in MEL Magazine:

(Internet slang, humorous, derogatory) One who rents property, especially one seen as lazy and pathetic.


nigcel

en-noun

nigcel (countable and uncountable, plural nigcels)

Blend of nigger + incel. By surface analysis, nig + -cel.

Nigcel is a play on the word incel, which stands for “involuntary-celibate.” This term refers to a subculture of men who are typically white males.

[2020 November 19, Sade Spence, “What is a Nigcel?”, in StayHipp.com, archived from the original on 2021-11-21:

Nigcels were being described as a particular type of Black “man”. He, in the logic offered in the room, is one that could be rehabilitated out of their violent ideology. Nigcels are a radicalized Black man, not a “real” or “good” Black “man”.

2021 March 1, Misandrynoir, “Our Obsession with Redeeming Men”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2021-03-03:

They’re often characterized by resentment, misogyny, misanthropy, self-pity and self-loathing, racism, a sense of entitlement to sex, and the endorsement of violence against sexually active people.” I was becoming that, but the Black version. A Nigcel.

2021 March 11, Stanley Fritz, “I Almost Became an Nigcel Because I Couldn't Get a Girlfriend”, in Let's Not Be Trash, archived from the original on 2022-04-29:

After thousands & thousands of comments from nigcels objectifying & villainizing me I’ve come to the conclusion that I no longer have the capacity to have empathy for cis straight black men.

2021 September 13, Ann Brown, “What Is A Bullet Bag? Inside The New Liberal Smear Against Black Men”, in The Moguldom Nation, archived from the original on 2021-10-11:

(incel slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person who is an incel.


-maxx

en-verb

-maxx (verb-forming suffix, third-person singular simple present -maxxes, present participle -maxxing, simple past and past participle -maxxed)

-maxxes (present singular third-person)
-maxxing (participle present)
-maxxed (participle past)
-maxxed (past)
-max (alternative)

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Clipping of maximize, with a superfluous x presumably to mimic Internet slang. Compare doxx.

looks + -maxx → looksmaxx

surgery + -maxx → surgerymaxx

trans + -maxx → transmaxx

(incel slang) Denoting an enhancement or improvement, with the goal of "maximizing" one's attractiveness or appeal.

rope (“to commit suicide”) + -maxx → ropemaxx

hope (“to be filled with hope”) + -maxx → hopemaxx

Made it with 5 minutes of my scheduled lunch to spare. Napmaxxed

2022 February 16, SWAMP SAM (@mardirooster), Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-14:

Soupmaxx immediately. If you fear veggies, soups are a great way to extract the beneficial nutrients safely.

2022 October 7, Hyde (@BreatheLesss), Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-14:

hard work with long hours and serious legal liabilities tied to your performance - or some brunchmaxxing tech job. what would you choose?

2022 December 26, Akhlys (@MetaphysicE), Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-14:

Never leaving my bed again im sleepmaxxing

2023 April 7, bane (@banewastaken), Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-14:

languagemaxxing by learning french through german (not fun)

2023 June 28, milan (@neumilan), Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-14:

(Internet slang, loosely, ironic) Used tongue-in-cheek for a wide range of effects unrelated to romance.


JBW

‘JBW’ or ‘Just Be White’—the idea that being white automatically makes you more attractive, particularly to non- white women

2021, Will Gerdes-McClain, "Differents: Essays About a Human (and Humans)", thesis submitted to Georgia College, page 96

In misogynist incel communities, the acronym “JBW” (Just Be White) is a popular expression of white men’s perceived sexual advantages.

2021, Megan Kelly, Alex DiBranco, Dr. Julia R. DeCook, in collaboration with the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, "Misogynist Incels and Male Supremacism", https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/misogynist-incels-and-male-supremacism/a-brief-overview-of-intersections-with-race-and-class/

I'm not denying that, being white gives you an advantage, what annoys me about JBW spammers is they think ONLY being white will get you laid, when being white is merely an advantage, just like being tall. That's all really, if JBW spammers would say being white is just an advantage that's fine, I agree being white is advantageous, but simply being white alone won't get you laid. Same with being tall for that matter.

2021, TigerFestival, quoted in Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 43

(incel slang) Just be white (used sardonically to reflect the belief that white men are greatly advantaged over other men at attracting women)


ropefuel

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(incel slang) That which provokes suicidal ideation.


youngcel

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For any youngcels out there, find a girl who has NEVER had a boyfriend and be with her. The moment a woman loses her virginity and breaks up with her first boyfriend is the moment she becomes a whore.

2020, Ida Lewenhaupt, quoting an anonymous Incels.co poster, Passive radicalisation without mobilisation: A narrative analysis of collective identities and emotions as driving forces of online radicalisation (thesis), Stockholm: Swedish Defence University, page 33:


hunter eyes

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Coordinate term: prey eyes

But according to incels, there are very clear male beauty standards: wide cheek bones, hunter eyes, thick eyebrows, a square chin, a symmetric nose, rugged jawline and a lean body.

2023, Julia Ebner, Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over:

(incel slang) A man's eyes that are relatively hooded, elongated and recessed into the skull, believed by incels to be particularly attractive to women.


ropemaxx

ropemaxx (third-person singular simple present ropemaxxes, present participle ropemaxxing, simple past and past participle ropemaxxed)

ropemaxxes (present singular third-person)
ropemaxxing (participle present)
ropemaxxed (participle past)
ropemaxxed (past)
ropemax (alternative)

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From rope (in reference to its use in suicide by hanging) + -maxx (suffix forming verbs relating to maximizing one's beauty or some other attribute); ironically offered as an alternative to other solutions for one's lack of beauty, such as looksmaxxing, when it is deemed that redeeming one's appearance is impossible and the only way to fix it would be to kill oneself, praying to be reincarnated in a more attractive body.

suffix

Don't remember the account but he was just like u but more annoying, one day he left and never came back, probably ropemaxxed

2023 June 10, u/Hot_Spray5309, “she is the cutest girl ever”, in Reddit, r/teenagers, archived from the original on 2023-08-13:

I am interested in applying to CS and engineering. I am interested in sciences but I don't want to end up getting rejected from med/opto school and ropemaxxing. Please comment my chances for the below schools.

2023 July 26, u/WinterJacob, “What are my Chances for CS and Engineering”, in Reddit, r/OntarioGrade12s, archived from the original on 2023-08-13:

t50 negative canthal tilt weak jawline prey eyes is it time to ropemaxx?

2023 August 2, u/Some-Top4572, “is it over for me?”, in Reddit, r/Mewing, archived from the original on 2023-08-13:

this is what happens when you don't mew it's over littlest bro ropemaxx

2023 August 5, @ishouIdkms, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-08-13:


canthal tilt

en-noun

canthal tilt (countable and uncountable, plural canthal tilts)

Popularized during the 2010s in incel forums. The term gained further popularity in mid-2023 on TikTok after a user created a filter that draws a line showing one's canthal tilt.

The lateral canthal position is normally 2 mm superior to the medial canthal position (i.e., a positive canthal tilt). A negative lateral canthal tilt may indicate descent of the lateral canthus from disinsertion, laxity, or the presence of a prominent eye.

2008 January, Andrew P. Trussler, Rod J. Rohrich, “MOC-PS^(SM) CME Article: Blepharoplasty”, in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, volume 121, number 1S, →DOI, page 2:

When viewing the eye en face, the lateral canthus should rest superior to the medial canthus. This canthal tilt varies between males and females. In men, it is approximately 2 mm, yet in females this difference is up to 4 mm. This canthal tilt is considered aesthetically pleasing and contributing to a perception of alertness.

2010, Basil M Hantash, Hayes B Gladstone, “An algorithm and review of blepharoplasty and canthopexy”, in Expert Review of Dermatology, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, page 480:

Despite the fact that he is universally fancied by almost every woman on the internet, Timothee Chalamet's negative canthal tilt would land him firmly in "prey" territory.

2023 June 7, Ruchira Sharma, “Women Want One Thing in Men, and It's 'Hunter Eyes'”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-06-13:

Some have said that "it is over" for people who have negative canthal tilts.

2023 August 5, Mary Connelly, “What is a canthal tilt?”, in The US Sun, archived from the original on 2023-08-13:

As SurfiaMD's video points out, though, human diversity is beautiful, and there is no perfect recipe for good looks. What people find attractive is as varied as people themselves are, and it doesn't make a ton of sense to explain all your problems by analyzing your canthal tilt. In all likelihood, it has very little to do with whether you're getting laid or not.

2023 August 7, Joseph Allen, “Some Incels Are Bummed About Their Canthal Tilt and Talking About It on TikTok”, in Distractify, archived from the original on 2023-08-09:

(chiefly medicine or incel slang) The tilt of a line drawn from the outer corner (the lateral canthus) to the inner corner (the medial canthus) of one's eyes; a lower inner corner is referred to as a positive tilt while a lower outer corner is referred to as a negative tilt.


prey eyes

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Coordinate term: hunter eyes

On TikTok alone, videos tagged with "hunter eyes" have attracted a total of 49.6m views. Men on the least desirable side of this beauty spectrum, according to these communities, have "prey eyes", and these doe-eyed schmucks are thought to look weak and unassertive.

(especially incel slang) Eyes which are relatively round and have a negative canthal tilt, said to be less attractive to women.


transmaxx

en-verb

transmaxx (third-person singular simple present transmaxxes, present participle transmaxxing, simple past and past participle transmaxxed)

transmaxxes (present singular third-person)
transmaxxing (participle present)
transmaxxed (participle past)
transmaxxed (past)

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So my question here to all members is, should I try to looksmaxx and find a girlfriend and get laid, of^([sic]) should I transmaxx and become a girl?

2023 March 3, u/InevitableQuirky3249, “Guys... I need your advice to take the most important decision of my life.”, in Reddit, r/transmaxxing, archived from the original on 2023-08-30:

sexual marketplace
sexual marketplace#Noun

(incel slang, sometimes 4chan /lgbt/ slang) To undergo gender transition (particularly from male to female) for the perceived social advantages that come with being the opposite sex, especially as regards the sexual marketplace.

incel slang; sometimes 4chan /lgbt/ slang; incel slang; sometimes 4chan /lgbt/ slang


geomaxx

geomaxx (third-person singular simple present geomaxxes, present participle geomaxxing, simple past and past participle geomaxxed)

geomaxxes (present singular third-person)
geomaxxing (participle present)
geomaxxed (participle past)
geomaxxed (past)
geomax (alternative)

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Here's my anecdotal experience: 100% of my friends who geomaxxed got married and appear to have stable, loving relationships with their wives.

2022 December 23, “"I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."”, in Reddit, r/PurplePillDebate, archived from the original on 2023-09-07:

this is why i will geomaxx to korea or japan or some shit, white guys are only hot when they are jb

2022 December 31, u/puririnpa, “proof of dysgenics: increading mutational load”, in Reddit, r/AllPillDebate, archived from the original on 2023-09-07:

Women geomaxx by moving to the city, men have to move to another country because America has become a gynocracy

2023 February 15, @RogueScholarPr, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-07:

I don't plan to ever geomaxx because I can't just leave everything I have just to live in some 3rd world country.

2023 August 30, u/CobWeb72, “All the guys around me are taller than me, how do I cope?”, in Reddit, r/shortguys, archived from the original on 2023-09-07:

sexual market value
sexual market value#Noun

(incel slang) To move to another region or country with the expectation of increasing one's sexual market value.


chadmaxx

chadmaxx (third-person singular simple present chadmaxxes, present participle chadmaxxing, simple past and past participle chadmaxxed)

chadmaxxes (present singular third-person)
chadmaxxing (participle present)
chadmaxxed (participle past)
chadmaxxed (past)

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(incel slang) To act in an exaggeratedly masculine way in a bid to increase one's sexual market value.


statusmaxx

statusmaxx (third-person singular simple present statusmaxxes, present participle statusmaxxing, simple past and past participle statusmaxxed)

statusmaxxes (present singular third-person)
statusmaxxing (participle present)
statusmaxxed (participle past)
statusmaxxed (past)
statusmax (alternative)

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They are encouraged in their culture to "looksmax" or "statusmax"; either, improve their attractiveness or make more money to attract women (Tolentino 2018).

2019, Brooke Collins, International Public Policy Review, volume 13, number 1, page 15, column 2:

The following expressions recur with particular frequency: "Looksmaxing" (the business of personal self-improvement and cosmetic surgery); "NEET" ("Not in education, employment, or training"); "LDAR" ("Lay Down and Rot"); "AWALT" ("All Women Are Like That"); "Roped" (to have committed suicide) "Statusmaxx" (to make more money); "Manlet" (a short incel); "Volcel" (voluntary celibate); "Marcels" (married incels); and "Fakecels" (those who falsely claim to be an incel).

[2020 September 24, Simon Cottee, “Incel (E)motives: Resentment, Shame and Revenge”, in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, volume 44, number 2, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

To succeed in the dating game, other incels advise them to "looksmaxx" or "statusmaxx" – telling them how to improve their appearance or make money.

2021 August 18, “Inside incel forums: what happens in the darkest corners of the internet?”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-20:

(incel slang) To improve one's sexual market value by making money and increasing one's social status.


jestermaxx

jestermaxx (third-person singular simple present jestermaxxes, present participle jestermaxxing, simple past and past participle jestermaxxed)

jestermaxxes (present singular third-person)
jestermaxxing (participle present)
jestermaxxed (participle past)
jestermaxxed (past)

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Women's exploitation also applies to incels, with one commenter complaining about a recent interaction by stating, "she just needs someone to entertain her when there are no Chads [i.e., attractive men] around and I am perfect for jestermaxxing [i.e., acting as entertaining company] unironically because I am interesting."

2021 December, Michael Halpin, Norann Richard, anonymous quotee, “An invitation to analytic abduction”, in Methods in Psychology, volume 5, London: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:

A Chad, for example, can be funny without jestermaxxing, because his likeability doesn't hinge on his humor. Someone who jestermaxxes, however, must be entertaining to women in order to keep their place among them, much like a jester in a king's court.

2022 January 14, Magdalene Taylor, “Incels Actually Defined This New Dating Trend Correctly”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 2023-07-08:

One person wrote on the Lonely Men subreddit: "I jestermaxxed hard in middle school, just made myself look r*****ed. ¶ "Don't do it. Chads can get away with most things because of the halo effect."

2022 January 14, Daisy Maldonado, anonymous quotee, “Incels have coined a cringe new dating term called 'Jestermaxxing'”, in Indy100, archived from the original on 2023-03-21:

Those who intentionally jestermaxx, however successfully, are also starting connections off on a disingenuous footing.

2022 January 21, Jessica Lindsay, “The problem with 'jestermaxxing', the incel-coined term for men making women laugh”, in Metro, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-24:

I jestermaxxed early in back in freshman year and became the "funny" friend and even though I had already been fucked up height wise, knowing peoples true colors fucked me up even more.

2023 June 29, “Stop telling actual kids "it's over"”, in Reddit, r/shortguys, archived from the original on 2023-09-22:

They [incels] get really mad at dudes uglier than them who successfully jestermaxx their way into a gf as well lol

2023 August 23, @delawarecryptid, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-22:

(incel slang) To act in a clownish or ridiculous way to try to attract female attention.


TRP

I heard about incels online first, although I knew more about blackpill and TRP before that. […]

2021 November 5, Lisa Sugiura, quoting Carl, The Incel Rebellion, page 41:

(incel slang) Initialism of the red pill.


gymmaxx

gymmaxx (third-person singular simple present gymmaxxes, present participle gymmaxxing, simple past and past participle gymmaxxed)

gymmaxxes (present singular third-person)
gymmaxxing (participle present)
gymmaxxed (participle past)
gymmaxxed (past)

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Within the incel movement, there are a variety of different attitudes, said [Laura] Bates. "Gymmaxxing" or "Looksmaxxing" incels believe they can improve their attractiveness to women by working out or otherwise improving their appearance.

2021 August 13, Alexandra Topping, “Plymouth shootings may be a sign 'incel' culture is spreading”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-05:

Idk about you but bald men with beards are hotter than most men. If you can't grow a beard and you're balding, shave all of it off and gymmaxx.

2022 November 19, u/ELLENRAPELEY2, “You ran for the mirror, but slipped in the clippings”, in Reddit, r/NewGreentexts, archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

Luke explained that he has severe osteoporosis, which means he could not benefit from lifting weights or gymmaxxing.

2023 April, Shane Murphy, Lost Boys and Incel Forums: Mental Health and Masculinity in the Age of Loneliness (thesis), Dublin: Dublin City University, page 134:

Gymmaxx + go to medical school

2023 August 26, u/Shitposter420696969, “Anon has a dilema”, in Reddit, r/greentext, archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

Self-doxx. Please go easy. I packed a few extra pounds but have gymmaxxed since then. This is from Gyatso monastery some time back

2023 October 12, @bvlldhist, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

(incel slang, intransitive) To work out at the gym and build muscle in order to increase one's attractiveness.


sex-haver

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(chiefly Internet slang, humorous or informal, incel slang) One who has sex, especially frequently; a person with an active sex life.


softmaxx

softmaxx (third-person singular simple present softmaxxes, present participle softmaxxing, simple past and past participle softmaxxed)

softmaxxes (present singular third-person)
softmaxxing (participle present)
softmaxxed (participle past)
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It begins with “softmaxxing”. This includes basic hygiene such as teeth brushing and whitening, removal of face and body hair, and “mewing” (tongue exercises that supposedly help tone facial muscles).

2024 January 31, “‘Looksmaxxing’ is the disturbing TikTok trend turning young men into incels”, in The Conversation:

(transitive, intransitive, incel slang) To act to improve one's physical appearance using a body care routine or other simple method; to engage in light looksmaxxing.


hardmaxx

hardmaxx (third-person singular simple present hardmaxxes, present participle hardmaxxing, simple past and past participle hardmaxxed)

hardmaxxes (present singular third-person)
hardmaxxing (participle present)
hardmaxxed (participle past)
hardmaxxed (past)

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Looksmaxxing attaches "scores" to aspects of male appearance, focusing particularly on jawline, muscularity and skin. Looksmaxxers aim to increase their scores via "softmaxxing" (such as using a gua sha, burning more calories than consumed, or moisturising) and "hardmaxxing" (such as steroid use, hair transplants, or cosmetic surgery).

2024 March 26, “Inside looksmaxxing, the extreme cosmetic social media trend”, in BBC:

(transitive, intransitive, incel slang) To act to improve one's physical appearance using body modifications or other extreme methods; to engage in extreme looksmaxxing.


heightmog

heightmog (third-person singular simple present heightmogs, present participle heightmogging, simple past and past participle heightmogged)

heightmogs (present singular third-person)
heightmogging (participle present)
heightmogged (participle past)
heightmogged (past)

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From height + mog (“to dominate in appearance”).

af

Man, I can barely go outside without being heightmogged by some 6′5″ gigachad.

Bald gymcel heightmogged by anime boy

2019 June 3, @DreamerLeaks, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-22:

One could be heightmogged by someone taller, or voicemogged by someone with a deeper voice.

2020 March 17, Brian Whitney, The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer:

Mogs (AMOG – alpha male of group, heightmogged, lifemogged) – to be dominated by another man's looks

2021 November 5, Lisa Sugiura, The Incel Rebellion:

Barron Trump heightmogs entire family in Christmas photo.

2023 December 26, @AFpost, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-22:

Here we see Rob heightmogging Glenn. In response, Glenn simultaneously skullmogging Rob and mewing. Not sure but think Rob might be edging too. Excellent back and forth looksmaxxing battle between these two incredible talents

2024 February 6, @TheJaegerB0mber, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-22:

(Internet slang, incel slang, transitive) To be significantly taller than someone, making that person feel inferior.


mewmaxx

en-verb

mewmaxx (third-person singular simple present mewmaxxes, present participle mewmaxxing, simple past and past participle mewmaxxed)

mewmaxxes (present singular third-person)
mewmaxxing (participle present)
mewmaxxed (participle past)
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Getting married this weekend. 72 hours to mewmaxx.

Lil bro is constantly mewmaxxing how can anyone find this attractive ?

(intransitive, incel slang) To attempt to enhance one's attractiveness by mewing.


looksmaxxer

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Many of Mr. Latham’s followers are so-called Looksmaxxers, part of a booming digital community of young men seeking to enhance their physical attractiveness. Its suffix comes from the world of role-playing games, in which to “max” means to fully develop a single character trait, like strength or wisdom.

2023 November 6, Joseph Bernstein, “Young Men Seek Answers to an Age-Old Question: How to Be Hot”, in The New York Times:


purplepiller

Purplepillers attempt to explain male-female behaviors in a more moderate and, relatively speaking, sensible way.

2019 June 11, “The Extremist Medicine Cabinet: A Guide to Online “Pills””, in ADL:

(incel slang) A person who rejects both the red pill and the blue pill.


incelhood

This is arguably linked to two things: declining tolerance for straight men’s behavior may have, on the one hand, caused this; the effect is misogynistic backlash in the form of rising incelhood.

2022 November 19, Amlan Sarkar, “A Straight Masculinity Crisis Is Underway — And It’s a Good Thing”, in The Swaddle:


jawmaxx

jawmaxx (third-person singular simple present jawmaxxes, present participle jawmaxxing, simple past and past participle jawmaxxed)

jawmaxxes (present singular third-person)
jawmaxxing (participle present)
jawmaxxed (participle past)
jawmaxxed (past)

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And finally, we talk to The Times’s Styles reporter Callie Holtermann about facial fitness gum, a “jawmaxxing” product targeted at teen boys online.

2024 July 19, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, “Social Media Reacts to an Attempted Assassination; Tech Elites for Trump; and TikTok’s Jawmaxxing Trend”, in The New York Times:

(incel slang, rare) To enhance one's jawline.


bone smashing

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Shami says older adults don’t get looksmaxxing. There has been much hand-wringing in the media over “bone smashing”, for example, an extreme technique that involves taking a hammer to your face to promote more “manly” regrowth when the bones repair, but little evidence that anyone is actually doing it.

2024 February 15, Simon Usborne, “From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces”, in The Guardian:

(incel slang) The act or practice of hitting one's face against a blunt object (e.g. a hammer or bottle) with the goal of improving one's facial appearance.


voicemog

voicemog (third-person singular simple present voicemogs, present participle voicemogging, simple past and past participle voicemogged)

voicemogs (present singular third-person)
voicemogging (participle present)
voicemogged (participle past)
voicemogged (past)

(incel slang, transitive) To have a deeper voice than someone.


Chadpreet

From a blend of Chad (“an attractive man”) and various Sikh given names ending in -preet, from Hindi प्रीति (prīti, “love, affection”).

It could've been Tyrone, Chaddam, Chadriguez, Chang or Chadpreet that cucked him

2023, Frazer Heritage, anonymous quotee, Incels and Ideologies: Exploring How Incels Use Language to Construct Gender and Race, page 171:

Chadpreet would be above chang since he can be Mediterranean passing

2024 February 18, Mark McGlashan, Alexandra Krendel, anonymous quotee, “Keywords of the manosphere”, in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, volume 29, number 1:

[…] or asking questions which are meant to undermine the findings: "So are you telling me some ugly white dude will mog some Chadpreet?".

2024, Václav Báča, "Hierarchy at the Bottom of the Hierarchy: Involuntary Celibates, Identity, and Race", thesis submitted to Charles University, page 39

(incel slang, often derogatory, offensive) An attractive man of South Asian heritage.