Reddit is an addictive website for sharing and discussing media. It consists of user curated subforums. Users can vote on links and comments to decide what is shown near the top for about one day. Users receive worthless points (karma) according to the votes they receive. New users and users who get downvoted too much are rate-limited, resulting in them only allowing to post content once every 10 minutes.
A downside of the karma system, as noted by many, is that it tends to result in group think by effectively censoring views divergent from the mainstream via downvoting and often through the actions of politically motivated moderators. Redditors are conditioned to crave the upvotes, and can easiest achieve this by parroting the latest mindless memes or by virtue signaling.
In recent years, Reddit has been subject to rampant shilling by GPT AI driven bots, to the point where they are nearly indistinguishable from real users. This, in combination with rampant censorship, has made the site nearly unusable to discuss any topic considered inconvenient or politically incorrect. As a result (see below) most subreddits deemed not NPC friendly have been banned.
With the banning of r/Lonely_men the incel community on reddit has died out, moving to 4chan and incels.is. r/Truevirgin was the most recent incel community to be banned as of May 2024.
Archives[edit | edit source]
Most banned subreddits have been archived on rareddit.com and pushshift.io (which can be searched on redditsearch.io and camas.github.io). URLs of deleted Reddit threads can sometimes be retrieved by replacing reddit.com with rareddit.com, ceddit.com or removeddit.com.
On Archive.org one can sometimes access /top/?sort=top&t=month or /top/?sort=top&t=all to see some of the top posts. Ever since Pushshift API was blocked by reddit in mid 2023,most of aforementioned alternatives have died out.
Incel-themed subreddits and bannings[edit | edit source]
Reddit hosted some of the largest incel forums, most of which have been memoryholed for "bullying" and "harassing" of women, presumably out of fear of bad advertiser relations and upon pressure of anti-incels.
| Name | Related wiki articles | Link, archive | founding date | banning date | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /r/Incel | R/incel | Archive.org | 17th of May, 2010 | 24th of April, 2017 | Banned |
| /r/Incels | /r/Incels | Archive.org | 2nd of August, 2013 | 7th of November, 2017 | Banned |
| /r/TheIncelPill | Archive.org | 22nd of July, 2016 | 17th of June, 2019 | Banned | |
| /r/IncelsWithoutHate | Link | 9th of April, 2017 | 11th of March, 2021 | Banned | |
| /r/IncelTears | /r/IncelTears | Link | 19th of May, 2017 | ||
| /r/IncelTear | Link | 10th of April, 2020 | — | Still active, an anti-incel forum | |
| /r/ProveTheIncelWrong | Link | 28th of January, 2021 | — | Still active, an anti-incel comic subreddit | |
| /r/IncelsInAction | Link | 24th of June, 2017 | — | Still active, an anti-incel forum | |
| /r/Braincels | /r/Braincels, Battle of Incelistan | Archive.org, Partial archive, Large archive | 21st of October, 2017 | 30th of September, 2019 | Banned. 'Partial archive' only has some posts in early 2018. 'Large archive' is nearly complete except for late 2018 (159 MB download, 2 GB extracted). Posts from late 2018 are missing, also from Pushshift.io, so they are possibly irreversibly lost. Many pics are still online except by accounts that Reddit has suspended. The v.reddit URLs can be downloaded with youtube-dl. |
| /r/BlackPillScience | Scientific Blackpill | Link, theredarchive.xyz | March 26th 2018 | — | Still active |
| /r/Shortcels | Heightpill | Archive.org | 8th of March, 2018 | 24th of March, 2020 | Banned, a subreddit focusing on shortcels and heightism. |
| /r/Shortcells | Link | 12th of October, 2019 | 26th of June, 2020 | Banned, a subreddit focusing on shortcels and heightism | |
| /r/Celouts | Archive.org | 6th of September, 2018 | 17th of October, 2019 | Banned | |
| /r/DepressedVirgins | Archive.org | 28th of September, 2018 | 28th of October, 2018 | Banned | |
| /r/askanincel | Archive.org | 30th of November, 2018 | 10th of January, 2020 | Banned | |
| /r/Intelligentcels | (unknown) | 30th of March, 2020 | Banned | ||
| /r/Standardcels | Standardcel, Weebcel | Link | 29th of April, 2019 | 11th of August, 2020 | Banned, subreddit focusing on weebcel |
| /r/Ricecels | Ricecel | Link | 30th of October, 2017 | 31th of August, 2021 | Banned, subreddit focusing on ricecels |
| /r/MarxismRodgerism | Elliot Rodger | Link | 13th of August, 2018 | 30th of June, 2020 | Banned subreddit which adhered communism and blackpill |
| /r/celmates | Link | 20th of January, 2020 | 9th of August, 2020 | Banned | |
| /r/kindnesscels | Link | 4th of January, 2021 | 24th of January, 2021 | Banned |
Other incel-themed subreddits: /r/Truecels, /r/gaycel, /r/incelselfies, /r/gymcels, /r/IncelDense, /r/SupportCel, /r/Truefemcels, /r/DogpillScience
Forever alone: /r/MaleForeverAlone, /r/Foreveraloneteens, /r/ForeverAloneLondon, /r/ForeverAlone, /r/ForeverUnwanted, /r/ForeverAloneDating
Pill Jargon-themed subreddits[edit | edit source]
| Name | Related wiki articles | Link, archive | founding date | banning date | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /r/TheBluePill | Bluepill | Link | 9th of January, 2013 | — | Still active, subreddit focusing on the bluepill and satire of r/TheRedPill |
| /r/TheRedPill | Redpill, PUA | Link, Archive | 25th of October, 2012 | — | Quarantined, subreddit focused on the redpill. |
| /r/TheBlackPill | Blackpill | Link | (Unknown) | (Unknown) | Private/banned, subreddit focused on the blackill. |
| /r/ThePurplePill | Purplepill | Link | (Unknown) | (Unknown) | Private, subreddit focused on the purplepill. |
| /r/ThePinkPill | Pinkpill | Link | (Unknown) | (Unknown) | Private, subreddit focused on the pinkpill. |
| /r/PurplePillDebate | Purplepill | Link, Archive | 22nd of August, 2013 | — | Still active, subreddit focused on the purplepill. |
| /r/AskTRP | Link, Archive | 2nd of August, 2013 | 10th of June, 2022 | Banned | |
| /r/PinkPillFeminism | Pinkpill, Feminism | Link | 26th of June, 2019 | 7th of January, 2021 | Private, subreddit focused on pink pill and feminism. |
Manosphere-themed subreddits[edit | edit source]
| Name | Related wiki articles | Link, archive | founding date | banning date | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /r/MGTOW | MGTOW, /r/MGTOW | Link, Archive | 4th of June, 2011 | 3rd of August, 2021 | Banned |
| /r/MGTOW2 | Link | 30th of June, 2017 | 3rd of August, 2021 | Banned | |
| /r/HAPAS | HAPA, Eurasian Tiger | Link | 28th of September, 2014 | — | Stil Active |