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==Positive Masculinity== | ==Positive Masculinity== | ||
The community was active | The community was active throughout most of 2019 despite being [[quarantined]] by Reddit admins on September 27 2018 because of misogyny. The day Braincels was quarantined Reddit gave a link to a feminist male studies organization telling incels to learn "positive masculinity," sparking many memes making fun of the terms for their comically vague thought-police vibe. It was later learned that the founder of the male organization that Reddit linked to, Michael Kimmel, [https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/15/us-womens-rights-campaigner-accused-of-sexual-harassment was an alleged sexual assaulter,] leading to much questioning as to whether or not Reddit meant "positive masculinity" to mean [[rape]]. | ||
==Banned from Reddit== | |||
r/Braincels was banned from Reddit on September 30th 2019 for "posting of content that harasses or bullies." [[Master]], who was hired as a mod on the subreddit a month before its closing posted a Reddit PM he got notifying him of the closing. The PM said that the creation of new subreddits to evade the ban was not allowed and that the content on Braincels was, "materially incompatible", with new rules Reddit admins created for the purpose of shutting down a bunch of subreddits. | |||
Various external forums such as [[incels.co]] and [[incelistan.net]] opened their forums to [[Braincels]] refugees, but there is unlikely to be a second mass exodus to external forums. As people were already aware of the external forums, and Braincels was never really much of a community at any point in time. And in the last few months of it's life was increasingly populated by culture warrior types. | |||
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