originates from "alpha fucks, beta bucks” (i.e. Women prefer sex with alpha males but are willing to use beta males as a source of financial support.) the term is a contraction from bucks used to refer to what incels believe as a beta (low status, looks) male that is used by a woman for money, housing, etc. in an otherwise unreciprocated romantic relationship. They also believe many women who are "betabuxxing" are single mothers, who have previously been with or "used" by Chads.

The Incel Community

Meaning

Major platforms have explicitly banned QAnon-related content, citing disinformation and risk of violence. Shows how conspiracy movements test platform moderation and highlight “gray areas” of speech online.

Place of origin

8kun

Parties Involved

QAnon

Meaning

This term refers to unelected powerbrokers who form a shadow government that persists through changes in administration. In the minds of QAnon followers, the deep state is a contemporary Illuminati.

Place of origin

4chan / Internet forums

Parties Involved

QAnon

Meaning

Anti-vax Twitter/X posts

Anti-vaxxer communities, conspiracy influencers

Reference to a conspiracy to embed tracking chips in humans via vaccine; this is often used in theories and speculations about Bill Gates’s nefarious intentions to control the world population.

Microsoft

Anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, fringe media outlets

The underlying fictional account of child sex-trafficking and resulting actions of a man who attacked a Washington, D.C., area pizzeria with an automatic weapon in 2016 to liberate children he thought held there by high-ranking Democratic party operatives.

QAnon

Conspiracy theorists, alt-right

Many local activists’ posts about EJK were reportedly flagged or pressured offline. It underscored how government offices denied “EJK” terminology, pushing state media to use more neutral or sanitized phrasing (e.g., “homicide cases”).

Citizens protesting Duterte era and Beyond

Activists, media watchdogs, global human rights orgs

"Used to question Duterte’s absence during crises (typhoons, calamities). Hashtag was reportedly suppressed or flooded with bots to bury criticism. Symbolic of citizen pushback vs. government handling of disasters."

Citizens protesting Duterte era and Beyond

Government social media teams, trolls, citizen activists

The archetype here is a white guy over six feet tall, the type of person incels believe excels at dating the women he desires. The platonic ideal of a Chad is a former college football player known as the Greensboro Jock who allegedly grew up to become a multi-millionaire entrepreneur. His apparent success furthers incels’ disordered belief that looks are the sole necessary ingredient for a happy life.

4chan

Incel Subculture

"Normies" refers to individuals who are perceived as ordinary, mainstream, and unaware of niche internet culture or alternative ideologies. Often used pejoratively in online forums to dismiss those who don’t share the beliefs of subcultures such as incels, conspiracists, or fringe political groups.

4chan

Meme culture, incel and fringe communities

Foid is a specialized term derived from “femoid” combining “female” and “humanoid,” an othering/dehumanizing term used when Incels find women to be particularly unacceptable.

Incel forums and 4chan boards

Incel Subculture, misogynistic online groups

The process of going from being an incel to a “normie,” or a “Chad” (see below). This is a group obsessed with the idea of a sexual caste system, and how one might “make it” to the other side.

Incel forums

Incel community, online manosphere

The phrase is an allusion to the SS Death’s Head Units’ smiling skull symbol, which is banned in Germany. This signaled an ideological affiliation with Nazi ideology.

Neo-Nazi message boards

Far-right extremist communities

The embrace of any belief even more bleak than the incel redpill, a.k.a. the initial revelation of your alleged place in that world (see below). The idea is that no amount of self-improvement will be sufficient to help certain people obtain romantic or sexual partners. Those who have taken the blackpill have concluded they have no capacity for ascension (see above).

Incel forums and manosphere blogs

Involuntary celibates (incels)

New term that has emerged where govt of President Marco Jr. is "red tagging" union leaders and accusing them of communist ideology and support

Philippines labor movements

Marcos Jr. administration, union leaders