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CCDH's new research shows that the largest incel forum responded to Netflix's 'Adolescence' with renewed misogynist hate, racism and antisemitic conspiracies, reinforcing the show’s important call to action on tackling online misogyny.
Content warning: misogyny, violence, antisemitism, racism, and abuse.
New research finds that the largest online incel forum responded to the Netflix series Adolescence with renewed misogynist hate, racism and antisemitic conspiracies, reinforcing the show’s important call to action on tackling online misogyny.
The forum, which received 2.7 million visits in the first three months of the year, is an online home for involuntary celibates or “incels” who often express hostility to women and wider society, blaming them for their lack of sexual and romantic experiences.
The analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate examined 658 posts from the forum in discussion threads about Adolescence, made between 24 February and 23 April.[ii]
Researchers found that 1 in 4 posts in forum threads discussing Adolescence contained misogynist hate, racism or antisemitic conspiracies, including claims that:
“The only parents that will lose their panties over this [Adolescence] are millennial muttwhores and their male feminist enablers.”
“The killer was some n***** immigrant, not a white. Fuck that show for pushing more jew propaganda.”
“2 dirty n****** wiped out of the genepool yet it’s starring an English kid the k**** are drinking goy blood with glee”
“F*ck that little rude JB b****, she deserved it. Too bad Jamie didn’t kill Katie’s monkey best friend as well.”
A majority of posts expressed disapproval of the Netflix series, with forum members claiming the show’s central character was too attractive to be an incel, or that the show’s writers had failed to distinguish incels from misogynist influencers like Andrew Tate.
Netflix’s Adolescence has captivated global audiences, becoming the third most watched English language show in the platform’s history.[iii] The show follows a teenager who delves into online misogynist communities before murdering a female classmate, which has sparked discussion about the real-world dangers of the manosphere and incel ideology.
CCDH research revealed network of forums offering pathways into the incelosphere
Previous research from CCDH revealed that the incel dedicated forum was part of a larger network of four forums set up by two individuals in 2017, which host discussions on body image, unemployment and suicide.[iv]
“Involuntary Celibates” or “incels” are an online subculture of the “manosphere”, which refers to a network of interconnected misogynistic websites and online communities.[v] Incels refers to predominately young, heterosexual men who believe they are unable to establish relationships, often blaming society – and women in particular – for their lack of sexual or romantic experiences.[vi]
The Center’s analysis of over 1.1 million incel forum posts from between January 2021 and July 2022 revealed promotion of extreme hatred, rape, pedophilia and mass shootings.[vii] The analysis found that forum members posted about rape every 29 minutes, while 16% of posts contained a misogynistic slur.[viii] Researchers also noted that the volume of posts on the forum had grown over time to reach a daily average of 2,340 posts.[ix]
In September 2022, researchers identified that the largest dedicated incel forum had 17,000 members, which has since grown to 30,000 members, although overall traffic to the website has declined.[x]
1 in 4 incel forum posts about Adolescence contain hate speech or slurs
Researchers identified that many posts in Adolescence-related threads in the forum contained hostile language, with 26% of the 658 posts featuring explicit hate speech or slurs.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate’s previous report, The Incelosphere, found that a fifth of all posts on the forum feature misogynist, racist or homophobic language, with misogynist slurs being the most common form of hate.[xi]
Researchers identified four key themes amongst hateful posts on the topic of Adolescence, with different kinds of hate often intersecting within one post:
1. Misogynist complaints about Adolescence: These complaints usually talk about women in the show or women who like the show using slurs and dehumanizing language.
“The only parents that will lose their panties over this [Adolescence] are millennial muttwhores and their male feminist enablers.”[xii]
[xiii]No boy should be taught by a foid [derogatory incel term for a woman] and this stupid bitch should make me a sandwich.”[xiv]
““Who isnt celibate at 13”
Shiiiii you’d be surprised what some of these c**** are doing these days”[xv]
2. Racist complaints about Adolescence: These complaints often used racial slurs to describe Black or South Asian members of the cast, or they asserted the false claim the main character should have been played by a black actor because the “real murderer” was black.
“The killer was some n***** immigrant, not a white. Fuck that show for pushing more jew propaganda.”[xvi]
“Inspector n** and inspector j** act all tough and self-righteous, it made me want to puke honestly. They drop dumb fucking one liners while making cool faces every 2 seconds. Send that n***** back to africa please.”[xvii]
“may as well cast n******* and p**** as villains in movies and games because of how often they go ER”[xviii]
3. Antisemitic conspiracies about Adolescence: These complaints often focus on the writers or Netflix being controlled by Jewish people, sometimes incorporating antisemitic slurs.
“2 dirty n****** wiped out of the genepool yet it’s starring an English kid the k**** are drinking goy blood with glee”[xix]
“Just like whatever is pumped out of Jewflix it isn’t there to tell an interesting or narrative story as much as push a specific agenda.”[xx]
“Soy overdose. Sometimes violent IS the only way to achieve your goal. Being a pussy and doing nothing is what (((they))) want.”[xxi]
4. Victim blaming: These posts talk about how the girl who is murdered in the series deserves it or generally justify incel violence against women.
“Fuck that little rude JB b****, she deserved it. Too bad Jamie didn’t kill Katie’s monkey best friend as well.”[xxii]
[xxiii]Complete bullshit, the protagonist kills a foid who bullied him and the shitty serie tries to present it as a bad thing.”[xxiv]
“What is surprising but still not that surprising is normiefags have not even emphasised on the bullying part, where he was being bullied 24*7 by that foidlet. She was asking for it.”[xxv]
2 in 3 forum posts about Adolescence are critical, often citing misrepresentation of incels
Researchers found that the majority of posts discussing Adolescence expressed negative sentiment, with 67% containing direct criticisms of the show or its media coverage.
These complaints often claim that the writers misrepresent incels. A common criticism focuses on the casting, with many posts arguing that the main actor is far too young and too attractive to be a realistic incel: “More accurate if he was short, ugly, and ethnic. I hear there’s a lot of curries there [the UK] anyways”.[xxvi]
Another common criticism is that the show fails to distinguish between incel communities and other manosphere content creators like Andrew Tate, whom many incels view as separate from their community.
One user complains: “The show combined incels and redpillers, implying that incels follow Andrew Tate – not true. Tate appeals to low inhib redpillers that think Game works.”[xxvii] This misrepresentation is cited as evidence that the show’s creators have a superficial understanding of incel culture.
The remaining 1 in 3 comments were either neutral on the series, off-topic, or even praised the show for its cinematography and acting – with one user posting: “One thing I do like about this show, if you can get past the writing is the cinematography and acting it’s really good, plus it being mostly realistic besides getting facts about inceldom wrong.”[xxviii]
Researchers used Similarweb, a platform providing web analytics, to estimate page visits to the incel forum. The platform collects data from various sources and before running the data through an algorithm to estimate page visits to a website. Using Similarweb’s data on daily visits to the forum from 1 January to 31 March 2025, researchers were able to calculate the overall sum of page visits for the first three months of 2025, finding that the site had received 2,732,877 visits in total.
The forum in question describes itself as a “community for men that struggle with or are unable to get into romantic relationships with women despite trying.” The forum has not been named in this note in order to avoid promoting it.
[ii] To analyze responses to the show from the incel community, researchers conducted a Google Advanced Search using the query “‘Adolescence’ AND (‘netflix’ OR ‘tv’ OR ‘series’)” to identify mentions of the Netflix series Adolescence on the top incel forum between 24 February 2025 – 23 April 2025. This returned 21 threads containing 658 posts discussing the show.
[iii] “Adolescence’ Becomes 3rd Most-Watched Netflix Show Ever, Beating ‘Dahmer”, Jose Alejandro Bastidas, The Wrap, 15 April 2025, https://www.thewrap.com/adolescence-netflix-third-most-watched-show-ever/
[iv] “The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
[v] “Inside the manosphere: understanding extreme misogyny online”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 12 April 2024, https://counterhate.com/blog/inside-the-manosphere-understanding-extreme-misogyny-online/
[vi] “Inside the manosphere: understanding extreme misogyny online”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 12 April 2024, https://counterhate.com/blog/inside-the-manosphere-understanding-extreme-misogyny-online/
[vii] “The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
[viii] “The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
[ix] “The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
[x] “The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
[xi] ”The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
The world's largest incel forum reacts to Netflix’s Adolescence with hate and conspiracies
CCDH's new research shows that the world's largest incel forum responded to Netflix's 'Adolescence' with misogyny, racism, and antisemitism.
CCDH's new research shows that the largest incel forum responded to Netflix's 'Adolescence' with renewed misogynist hate, racism and antisemitic conspiracies, reinforcing the show’s important call to action on tackling online misogyny.
Content warning: misogyny, violence, antisemitism, racism, and abuse.
New research finds that the largest online incel forum responded to the Netflix series Adolescence with renewed misogynist hate, racism and antisemitic conspiracies, reinforcing the show’s important call to action on tackling online misogyny.
The forum, which received 2.7 million visits in the first three months of the year, is an online home for involuntary celibates or “incels” who often express hostility to women and wider society, blaming them for their lack of sexual and romantic experiences.
The analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate examined 658 posts from the forum in discussion threads about Adolescence, made between 24 February and 23 April.[ii]
Researchers found that 1 in 4 posts in forum threads discussing Adolescence contained misogynist hate, racism or antisemitic conspiracies, including claims that:
“The only parents that will lose their panties over this [Adolescence] are millennial muttwhores and their male feminist enablers.”
“The killer was some n***** immigrant, not a white. Fuck that show for pushing more jew propaganda.”
“2 dirty n****** wiped out of the genepool yet it’s starring an English kid the k**** are drinking goy blood with glee”
“F*ck that little rude JB b****, she deserved it. Too bad Jamie didn’t kill Katie’s monkey best friend as well.”
A majority of posts expressed disapproval of the Netflix series, with forum members claiming the show’s central character was too attractive to be an incel, or that the show’s writers had failed to distinguish incels from misogynist influencers like Andrew Tate.
Netflix’s Adolescence has captivated global audiences, becoming the third most watched English language show in the platform’s history.[iii] The show follows a teenager who delves into online misogynist communities before murdering a female classmate, which has sparked discussion about the real-world dangers of the manosphere and incel ideology.
CCDH research revealed network of forums offering pathways into the incelosphere
Previous research from CCDH revealed that the incel dedicated forum was part of a larger network of four forums set up by two individuals in 2017, which host discussions on body image, unemployment and suicide.[iv]
“Involuntary Celibates” or “incels” are an online subculture of the “manosphere”, which refers to a network of interconnected misogynistic websites and online communities.[v] Incels refers to predominately young, heterosexual men who believe they are unable to establish relationships, often blaming society – and women in particular – for their lack of sexual or romantic experiences.[vi]
The Center’s analysis of over 1.1 million incel forum posts from between January 2021 and July 2022 revealed promotion of extreme hatred, rape, pedophilia and mass shootings.[vii] The analysis found that forum members posted about rape every 29 minutes, while 16% of posts contained a misogynistic slur.[viii] Researchers also noted that the volume of posts on the forum had grown over time to reach a daily average of 2,340 posts.[ix]
In September 2022, researchers identified that the largest dedicated incel forum had 17,000 members, which has since grown to 30,000 members, although overall traffic to the website has declined.[x]
1 in 4 incel forum posts about Adolescence contain hate speech or slurs
Researchers identified that many posts in Adolescence-related threads in the forum contained hostile language, with 26% of the 658 posts featuring explicit hate speech or slurs.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate’s previous report, The Incelosphere, found that a fifth of all posts on the forum feature misogynist, racist or homophobic language, with misogynist slurs being the most common form of hate.[xi]
Researchers identified four key themes amongst hateful posts on the topic of Adolescence, with different kinds of hate often intersecting within one post:
1. Misogynist complaints about Adolescence: These complaints usually talk about women in the show or women who like the show using slurs and dehumanizing language.
“The only parents that will lose their panties over this [Adolescence] are millennial muttwhores and their male feminist enablers.”[xii]
[xiii]No boy should be taught by a foid [derogatory incel term for a woman] and this stupid bitch should make me a sandwich.”[xiv]
““Who isnt celibate at 13”
Shiiiii you’d be surprised what some of these c**** are doing these days”[xv]
2. Racist complaints about Adolescence: These complaints often used racial slurs to describe Black or South Asian members of the cast, or they asserted the false claim the main character should have been played by a black actor because the “real murderer” was black.
“The killer was some n***** immigrant, not a white. Fuck that show for pushing more jew propaganda.”[xvi]
“Inspector n** and inspector j** act all tough and self-righteous, it made me want to puke honestly. They drop dumb fucking one liners while making cool faces every 2 seconds. Send that n***** back to africa please.”[xvii]
“may as well cast n******* and p**** as villains in movies and games because of how often they go ER”[xviii]
3. Antisemitic conspiracies about Adolescence: These complaints often focus on the writers or Netflix being controlled by Jewish people, sometimes incorporating antisemitic slurs.
“2 dirty n****** wiped out of the genepool yet it’s starring an English kid the k**** are drinking goy blood with glee”[xix]
“Just like whatever is pumped out of Jewflix it isn’t there to tell an interesting or narrative story as much as push a specific agenda.”[xx]
“Soy overdose. Sometimes violent IS the only way to achieve your goal. Being a pussy and doing nothing is what (((they))) want.”[xxi]
4. Victim blaming: These posts talk about how the girl who is murdered in the series deserves it or generally justify incel violence against women.
“Fuck that little rude JB b****, she deserved it. Too bad Jamie didn’t kill Katie’s monkey best friend as well.”[xxii]
[xxiii]Complete bullshit, the protagonist kills a foid who bullied him and the shitty serie
“What is surprising but still not that surprising is normiefags have not even emphasised on the bullying part, where he was being bullied 24*7 by that foidlet. She was asking for it.”[xxv]
2 in 3 forum posts about Adolescence are critical, often citing misrepresentation of incels
Researchers found that the majority of posts discussing Adolescence expressed negative sentiment, with 67% containing direct criticisms of the show or its media coverage.
These complaints often claim that the writers misrepresent incels. A common criticism focuses on the casting, with many posts arguing that the main actor is far too young and too attractive to be a realistic incel: “More accurate if he was short, ugly, and ethnic. I hear there’s a lot of curries there [the UK] anyways”.[xxvi]
Another common criticism is that the show fails to distinguish between incel communities and other manosphere content creators like Andrew Tate, whom many incels view as separate from their community.
One user complains: “The show combined incels and redpillers, implying that incels follow Andrew Tate – not true. Tate appeals to low inhib redpillers that think Game works.”[xxvii] This misrepresentation is cited as evidence that the show’s creators have a superficial understanding of incel culture.
The remaining 1 in 3 comments were either neutral on the series, off-topic, or even praised the show for its cinematography and acting – with one user posting: “One thing I do like about this show, if you can get past the writing is the cinematography and acting it’s really good, plus it being mostly realistic besides getting facts about inceldom wrong.”[xxviii]
Researchers used Similarweb, a platform providing web analytics, to estimate page visits to the incel forum. The platform collects data from various sources and before running the data through an algorithm to estimate page visits to a website. Using Similarweb’s data on daily visits to the forum from 1 January to 31 March 2025, researchers were able to calculate the overall sum of page visits for the first three months of 2025, finding that the site had received 2,732,877 visits in total.
The forum in question describes itself as a “community for men that struggle with or are unable to get into romantic relationships with women despite trying.” The forum has not been named in this note in order to avoid promoting it.
[ii] To analyze responses to the show from the incel community, researchers conducted a Google Advanced Search using the query “‘Adolescence’ AND (‘netflix’ OR ‘tv’ OR ‘series’)” to identify mentions of the Netflix series Adolescence on the top incel forum between 24 February 2025 – 23 April 2025. This returned 21 threads containing 658 posts discussing the show.
[iii] “Adolescence’ Becomes 3rd Most-Watched Netflix Show Ever, Beating ‘Dahmer”, Jose Alejandro Bastidas, The Wrap, 15 April 2025, https://www.thewrap.com/adolescence-netflix-third-most-watched-show-ever/
[iv] “The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
[v] “Inside the manosphere: understanding extreme misogyny online”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 12 April 2024, https://counterhate.com/blog/inside-the-manosphere-understanding-extreme-misogyny-online/
[vi] “Inside the manosphere: understanding extreme misogyny online”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 12 April 2024, https://counterhate.com/blog/inside-the-manosphere-understanding-extreme-misogyny-online/
[vii] “The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
[viii] “The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
[ix] “The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
[x] “The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
[xi] ”The Incelosphere”, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, 30 September 2022, https://counterhate.com/research/incelosphere/
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