Characteristics of Incel Forum Users: Social Network Analysis and Chronological Posting Patterns

Figures & data

Figure 1. Network of subreddits to which incel forum users contributed.

Table 1. Overlap between users of identified communities of subreddits (in %).

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1. Memes and teenagers	67.6%	61.3%	62.0%	55.7%	46.1%	43.0%
2. General interests		73.2%	66.0%	59.0%	47.0%	45.0%
3. Manosphere/Mental health/relationship/advice			77.8%	58.5%	46.4%	44.2%
4. Politics and social issues				63.5%	44.3%	42.0%
5. Surprising or interesting					48.6%	35.3%
6. Gaming and computers						47.4%

Figure 2. Median difference (with 95% CI) in the number of days before first contribution to r/incels (n = 31,273).

Figure 3. Median difference (with 95% CI) in the number of days before first contribution to r/braincels (n = 61,136).

Figure 4. Median difference (with 95% CI) in the number of days before first contribution to r/incelsWithoutHate (n = 45,728).