Incel Trivia 1
This color pill is "taken" when incels accept that they are physically unattractive and nothing they do will result in a successful relationship.
Black
Why is it so difficult to stop incel communities from spreading their violent rhetoric online?
Every time they get banned from one site host, they just switch to another.
What do the acronyms VR and AI stand for?
Virtual Reality & Artificial Intelligence
According to Tavani, what is a blog?
A Website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.
What does SNS stand for?
Social Networking Services
What is an incel?
Someone who is involuntarily celibate.
What internet security company has become notorious for enabling controversial groups like incels to keep their forums up and running?
Cloudfare
What separates Virtual Reality from Augmented Reality?
VR requires one’s field of vision to be substantially replaced by computer-generated vision whereas Augmented Reality enhances one's view of the real world.
What is a pseudonym?
A fictitious name, especially one used by an author.
Why do online communities present a greater opportunity for political fracture than traditional communities?
Access to communities that are not geographically constrained, where you can communicate with more people who share your political beliefs.
Who is the "Supreme Gentleman" of the incel movement?
Elliot Rodger
The incel community philosophy might best be described as:
Nihilism and/or Fatalism
What is the Turing Test?
Tests if a person engaged in conversation with a computer is able to tell whether he or she is conversing with another human or with a machine.
According to Gordon Graham (1999), what is one aspect of online communities that may increase personal freedoms?
It can be easier to disregard personal attributes such as gender or ethnicity online
What is at the core of what determines a traditional community versus an online community?
At the core of traditional communities is a spatial location whereas online communities core is based on common interests.
Not all delivery networks are like Cloudflare, and some have pledged to ban certain types of content from their platforms. Name 3 things that might get you banned from Akamai or Encapsula’s networks:
Material that is illegal, defamatory, libellous, indecent, obscene, pornographic, harmful, threatening, abusive or defamatory (any three or synonyms).
Is there a legal requirement for internet companies to regulate hate speech?
No
What is "Gold Farming"?
The practice of playing an online computer game for the purpose of gaining items of value within the internal economy of the game and selling those to other players for real money.
One 2008 survey found what percentage of online community members felt “as strongly” about their digital communities as they did about their real life ones?
43% (tolerance of 10%)
What is a MOO
Multi-user object-oriented environment
Explain the distinctions between Chads, Stacys, and Beckys.
Stacy: females who are hyperfeminine, attractive, and unattainable and who only date “Chads.”
Chad: muscular, popular men who are presumed to sleep with lots of women.
Becky: the “average” woman who owes attention to the incels.
What is the name of the incel community sub-Reddit that was just recently banned? What is the name of a still active incel community on Reddit?
/r/incels
/r/ braincels
2001: A Space Odyssey
According to Tavani interpretation, what are two cons of SNSs.
Facilitate social polarization
Threaten our traditional notion of friendship
Facilitate deception
In 2006, on what online community did Lori Drew, a 49-year-old, pose as a 16-year-old in order to bully 13-year-old Megan Meier to the point of suicide.
MySpace