Adolescence tells a dark tale of a young boy who is accused of his classmate’s murder. The Netflix crime-drama series introduces and explains several important terms and themes relevant to today’s ...

In “Adolescence,” there are no clear answers for why 13-year-old Jamie (Owen Cooper) murdered a female classmate. Yet in the final moments of Netflix’s hit limited series, Jamie’s parents shakily ...

The Nashville high school shooter was a Black teen revealed to have embraced neo-Nazi ideals such as being a “Groyper incel,” according to his social media. The male student who shot two fellow ...

An Ohio man and self-described "incel," short for "involuntary celibate," has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to a hate crime charge, according to federal prosecutors. Tres ...

An Ohio man who described himself as an “incel” and plotted to kill women at a university was sentenced to over six years in prison Thursday, federal prosecutors said. Tres Genco, 24, wrote that he ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A self-described incel who pleaded guilty to planning to shoot women at a university in Ohio has been sentenced to prison. Tres Genco, 24, of Hillsboro, was sentenced Thursday ...

The term hardened: incel began to describe a threat. Today, it refers to a loosely connected online subculture of young men who see themselves as romantically excluded, blame women or society for ...

Ten years ago, using language from the incel community in regular conversation would land you with a couple of weird looks and an awkward silence. And for good reason: the hyper-online, seemingly ...

What once described an isolated internet subculture is now used as shorthand for any expression of male resentment. If you’ve been on the internet within the past few years, chances are you’ve ...

This excerpt from Adam Aleksic’s Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The book is out on July 15th. The modern-­day incel is ...

On Nov. 7, 2017, the American social-media platform Reddit shut down r/Incels, an online forum with more than 40,000 members. This was in line with a new policy the company brought in, banning content ...