Puahate Sluthate Lookism (PSL): Difference between revisions

None of these forums had sub-forums that were explicitly related to incel discussion, although the term was widely used in the "Shitty Advice" section of PUAhate, which was the most visited sub-forum in the last few years of the site.

In spite of this lack of an explicit focus on inceldom, many users of the PSL network of sites were incel (to some degree or other), and the memes, concepts, and beliefs commonly espoused on these forums substantially influenced the culture of several subsequent incel forums.  

Although the forums had origins in pick-up-artistry criticism, PUAhate eventually morphed into a place whose main purpose was to discuss [[lookism]] and aesthetics, or to engage in internet trolling, often directed at the particularly credulous, generally [[Asperger's Syndrome|autistic users of the forums]]. After PUAhate was shut down in response to the attack, most of the users of the "shitty advice" forum moved to a new website, "Sluthate." Sluthate users later migrated to a new website, "lookism.net", mainly in response to server downtime and the slowness of Sluthate.

The latest iteration of PSL, Lookism.net, broke with PSL tradition by self-identifying as an incel forum around 2017 and becoming more sympathetic to pick-up artistry (ironically due to the installation of a mod that completely rejected the validity of male looks as being the key to attracting women). The users of the forums eventually developed their own supposedly "objective" rating system that follows a rough {{W|normal distribution|normal distribution}}, which is known as a ''[[PSL rating|PSL rating]].''