Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap

Figures & data

Figure 1. Acts and targets by subreddit forum.

Figure 2. Violent posts on r/NoFap by year.

Figure 3. Upvotes by target of violent content (top 5).

Table A1. Examples by post classification from r/NoFap.

Action described	Examples
Death	“you know the part about malice? This week i had thoughts of just wanting to fucking punch someone to death” “I will kill the CEO of p0rn and violently slaughter their entire family” “Almost murdered my girlfriend last night. That being said, I did something last night that goes far beyond my addiction to PMO as an escapist crutch. I literally threatened someone with murder. Not just anyone: A socially respected sociolytic sociopath female.”
Rape	“Everybody who experienced the stop PMO had, some time, a very big urge period and I don’t want to try to force myself to stop PMO when I will have very huge urges I’m afraid to assault/rape anybody (for example).” “15 days Hardmode but almost committed a rape. Plz help me. Yesterday I was sitting in the building park. it was late evening. There I saw a girl (maybe 16 or 17) and she was alone too talking on the cellphone. The moment she looked at me and smiled I got a mad insane rush. I felt like raping her then and there. Yes there was no one around it was late evening. I got up and walked toward her slowly. Alarmed she looked at me in shock and backed off. When I almost held her hand to pull her close I gained control over myself and made a filmsy excuse. I’m scared I’ll do this again. I feel so mad and horny I swear I could fuck a watermelon with a hole in it. I’m scared I’ll end up raping a woman. I cannot control.” “When are we gonna raid the headquarters of porn producers? and rape them 1000 time with a hammer while filming them so they experience the pain and agony they caused for countless of innocent people”
Violence	“day 31-~50: Like my brain is in a blender. Sometimes it’s the best day ever. The next day I curl up in a corner and just want to die. Urge to stab people in the face for things that don’t really matter becomes a problem here.” “or just burn down their server buildings entirely, which could be construed as arson, instead of that massive level of theft, and would actually get rid of it all instead of just shutting down one site, which would probably just lead to a power vacuum being filled in a matter of months. Only problem is, they’re all over the world, and you’d probably want to do them all at about the same time, to make sure they can’t do anything about it, so you’d need to coordinate, and odds are it’d be much harder to play off as an accident that way.” “Don’t let a broken society tell you what’s right and wrong!I left society and stopped giving a fuck what people say about me,in the end I let people do what they want as long as it doesn’t fuck over other peoples’ mentality or feelings,I don’t mind if a guy does ballet,but if the ballet guy starts saying to avoid all muslims because they’re all terrorists,I’d feel inclined to punch him in the nose!”
Destroy property	“I’ll do you one better. Me and a few friends are hitting it [pornography website] with a DDoS.” “Send the link man So i can DDOS” “If there are any questions I’ll make a response but if that question is ‘how do we fix this?’ there are two answers. […] The hard way: Guerrilla insurgency against media companies; no killing just incessant destruction of broadcasting tools, Television and radio broadcasting towers, DDoS attacks on porn sites would be a strong secondary objective, the goal is to take away man’s comfort blanket and get him to take a hard look at where he is living, who he is and why he is living this way this would need to be a prolonged event anything less than a month would have a negligible effect. This should allow the more peaceful option to take root.”
Dox	“Also Nicole Prause is literally financed by xhamster if I remember correctly. Here’s a picture of her (far right) at some adult film awards.” “I just got scammed from a guy off grailed for $775 and I feel like relapsing. He blocked me off his Instagram (@[redacted real handle]). I have his friends number aswell ([redacted real phone]). I will pay everyone who blows up their phone $1. Make my night as I will be very disappointed the entirety of it.” “Just dox her already, why would you protect a porn star?”
Targets
Women	“Unbelivable me too I feel so bad man…. :-(My brain was like do it do it or u will rape someone ….and now….hello backpain….hello depression….hello creepy behavior” “I hooked up with this chick when we we’re drunk one time, and she sent me a message saying I ‘raped’ her the next day.”
Specific person	“What do you mean telling on your friend is not easy? He’s a fucking pedophile for fuck sake. It wouldn’t be easy not to want to kill him there an then.” “You said you have their name. I don’t imagine it’d be impossible to track them down somehow or other. Even if you can’t pursue them somehow or other through the law it probably wouldn’t be foul play should you manage to dox them. A coworker of mine gave me a machete and a fillet knife for Christmas, and I’m itching to try them out. That person is a sick bastard and doesn’t deserve to live another day in comfort.”
Scientist	“We’re basically fighting to the death against these people.” “I can kill that bitch any time if you’d like me to. Fuck those people”
Pornography industry	“Let’s KBS this demon [referring to porn industry]. KBS=KILL BUTCHER UPAND SLAUGHTER” “Kill all pornographers”
Other forum user	“I will kill you if you let her down bro” “I WILL FIND YOU AND I WILL KILL YOU!”
Anyone	“Day 22: have intense urge to Murder.” “There is nothing like scientific Evidence. That is Bullshit. Fuck off with your Idea. Pmo has ruined my life so much that whenever I hear someone Endosing it, I just wanna kill him.”
Other target	“I wanna go back to kill even more stray animals” “A one page summary of Protocols of Zion Goyim (Gentiles) are mentally inferior to Jews and can’t run their nations properly. For their sake and ours, we need to abolish their governments and replace them with a single government. This will take a long time and involve much bloodshed, but it’s for a good cause.”

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