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I'm not sure there's much of an overlap. Incels are a rather small group, and I think most wallstreetbets users are surprisingly... normal. You can't bet on sto
by diarrhea 6y ago
I'm not sure there's much of an overlap. Incels are a rather small group, and I think most wallstreetbets users are surprisingly... normal. You can't bet on stocks if you're poor. So you'll have lots of mid/late 20s educated guys with decent incomes. This to me really feels like a classic "for the lulz" (and some personal profit), avalanche-style event.
- me_me_me 6y agoThis. Plus every subreddit has different make up. Its pretty ignorant putting all reddit as one homogenious group.
- as1mov 6y agoThis applies even to the internet "cesspools" really. Most of my friends were/are regular posters on reddit/4chan, and they are surprisingly normal. All of them have decent jobs that pay well, some are married. If you met them in real life, you couldn't really tell there's something wrong with them. They seem a far cry from what internet tells you a 4chan user looks like. Funny enough, none of them (including me) are white.
- diarrhea 6y ago> you couldn't really tell there's something wrong with them. Okay, but is there? The way you're phrasing it sounds that merely posting to 4chan makes them abnormal. The other way around is true: there's an unusually high share of abnormal people on 4chan. Just posting there shouldn't be a sign of abnormality. It's just a Mongolian basket weaving forum after all.
- icebraining 6y agoYeah, but that doesn't mean they aren't portrayed as incels.
- fwip 6y ago"for the lulz" isn't really a normal-person thing to do.
- briankelly 6y agoNot everybody takes themselves so seriously.