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Incel.life was shut down in 2018, due to efforts by [[Babe Magazine]]. In early 2018, [[Alana]] decided to rebrand her abandoned research project to "Love not Anger," while claiming that the term "incel" has acquired negative connotations. Although the trueforcedloneliness.com website is no longer operational, there nevertheless are many sporadic blogs and vlogs wherein content creators self-identify as [[TFL|TFLers]]. | Incel.life was shut down in 2018, due to efforts by [[Babe Magazine]]. In early 2018, [[Alana]] decided to rebrand her abandoned research project to "Love not Anger," while claiming that the term "incel" has acquired negative connotations. Although the trueforcedloneliness.com website is no longer operational, there nevertheless are many sporadic blogs and vlogs wherein content creators self-identify as [[TFL|TFLers]]. | ||
In 2018, Braincels was quarantined from Reddit on the basis of misogyny. | |||
In early 2019, [[incelistan.net]] was created as a response to technical downtime for [[Facebook's Incelistan]]. | In early 2019, [[incelistan.net]] was created as a response to technical downtime for [[Facebook's Incelistan]]. | ||
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Also, in 2019, the Washington Post and other outlets released articles detailing how [[demographics of inceldom|rates of celibacy]] among men between ages 18-30 was approaching 30% per year (an all time high), validating the intuition of many incel forums, and ending some of the [[gaslighting]] directed at incels<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-americans-not-having-sex-has-reached-record-high/?utm_term=.9b52429c7136</ref>. This became one of the largest topics of discussion across the entire incelosphere. | Also, in 2019, the Washington Post and other outlets released articles detailing how [[demographics of inceldom|rates of celibacy]] among men between ages 18-30 was approaching 30% per year (an all time high), validating the intuition of many incel forums, and ending some of the [[gaslighting]] directed at incels<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-americans-not-having-sex-has-reached-record-high/?utm_term=.9b52429c7136</ref>. This became one of the largest topics of discussion across the entire incelosphere. | ||
Also, in 2019 [[love-shy.com]] took down their FAQ page on incels while also allowing their most extreme incels to stay on the site, a | Also, in 2019 [[love-shy.com]] took down their FAQ page on incels in a distancing attempt while also allowing their most extreme incels to stay on the site. Also, this year a podcast devoted to incel topics by a non-incel was started called [[The Incel Project (Podcast)]], which has absolutely no association with the previous [[The Incel Project (documentary)]]. | ||
==Concurrent== | ==Concurrent== | ||