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Aug 2026
From Intimate Relationship Failure to Social Issues: A Thematic Analysis of Incel Discourse on YouTube
This study examines the online commentary discourse surrounding the "Incel" phenomenon as a sociological field, exploring how frustrations in intimate relationships are transformed into interpretations of self-identity, gender relations, and social order. Drawing on a corpus of 24,648 top-level comments from ten popula...
X. Di, Man-Jie Wang, Jiayi Miao
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