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=== Alt-right and racism === | === Alt-right and racism === | ||
The person who first formalized the blackpill, [[Paragon]], was not a white nationalist and is thought to be currently living in the Phillipines. The first blackpill boards anywhere were founded by a self-described "neo-reactionary", ie [[Caamib]]. Reddit made it clear they would not tolerate that style of incel discussion and so Braincels was populated next. Braincels was a previously dormant sub founded by an anarcho-communist named [[AnathematicAnarchist]]. Braincels actively sought to minimize racism in their Reddit community and before [[AnathematicAnarchist]] killed himself, were largely hostile to the [[alt-right]].<ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=racism%20&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051366&size=100</ref><ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=alt-right&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051401&size=100</ref> The lack of racism on Braincels was largely due to the fact that at that point in time, if any [[alt-right]] blackpill subreddit got popular, they would have been banned, so it was mainly Reddit admin pressure which kept the [[alt-right]] out of a blackpill forum for so long. On [[incels.co]], the current largest blackpill community, there exists a large [[alt-right]] presence, with 15% of polled users stating that alt-right views were their most valued subject matter outside the forum.<ref>https://incels.co/threads/whats-your-second-preferred-division-of-the-manosphere-after-incel.106366/</ref>. Their continued non-banned presence on the forum<ref>https://incels.co/threads/to-the-wns-would-asians-or-hapas-be-allowed-in-the-ethnostate.108581/</ref><ref>https://incels.co/threads/james-allsup-youtuber-casually-drops-the-race-realism-pill-on-1-5-million-viewers.109543/</ref> leads to constant threads complaining about race-baiting and there exists mild but ultimately toothless animosity between "stormfrontcels" and ethnic users. Alt-right sentiment also bleeds into purplepill spaces. [[Incelistan.net]] has hundreds of registered users, but their most active poster in early 2020 is an [[alt-right]] half-Jew, while their admin is not [[alt-right]]. Alt-righters tend to be very vocal. | The person who first formalized the blackpill, [[Paragon]], was not a white nationalist and is thought to be currently living in the Phillipines. The first blackpill boards anywhere were founded by a self-described "neo-reactionary", ie [[Caamib]]. Reddit made it clear they would not tolerate that style of incel discussion and so Braincels was populated next. Braincels was a previously dormant sub founded by an anarcho-communist named [[AnathematicAnarchist]]. Braincels espoused the blackpill and were not particularly traditionalist or alt-right (outside of slut-shaming) for most of it's life, defining the blackpill to mean "women just care about looks". Braincels actively sought to minimize racism in their Reddit community and before [[AnathematicAnarchist]] killed himself, were largely hostile to the [[alt-right]].<ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=racism%20&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051366&size=100</ref><ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=alt-right&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051401&size=100</ref> The lack of racism on Braincels was largely due to the fact that at that point in time, if any [[alt-right]] blackpill subreddit got popular, they would have been banned, so it was mainly Reddit admin pressure which kept the [[alt-right]] out of a blackpill forum for so long. On [[incels.co]], the current largest blackpill community, there exists a large [[alt-right]] presence, with 15% of polled users stating that alt-right views were their most valued subject matter outside the forum.<ref>https://incels.co/threads/whats-your-second-preferred-division-of-the-manosphere-after-incel.106366/</ref>. Their continued non-banned presence on the forum<ref>https://incels.co/threads/to-the-wns-would-asians-or-hapas-be-allowed-in-the-ethnostate.108581/</ref><ref>https://incels.co/threads/james-allsup-youtuber-casually-drops-the-race-realism-pill-on-1-5-million-viewers.109543/</ref> leads to constant threads complaining about race-baiting and there exists mild but ultimately toothless animosity between "stormfrontcels" and ethnic users. Alt-right sentiment also bleeds into purplepill spaces. [[Incelistan.net]] has hundreds of registered users, but their most active poster in early 2020 is an [[alt-right]] half-Jew, while their admin is not [[alt-right]]. Alt-righters tend to be very vocal. | ||
=== Blackpill science === | === Blackpill science === | ||