any time i see it, it just screams "incel" (is that the joke?)
The Vocel bot on the subreddit was reasonably useful. It seemed to cut down on people being overly horny/creepy like what happened when that woman posted a pic of a tattoo she'd got.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I could smell some of the comments on reddit tbh. I wouldn't want to be on the actual recieving end of them, it doesn't seem like fun.
I always thought Vocelbot worked because it was so fucking silly that whoever got prodded by it didn't really have any way to kick off over it without making themselves look worse.
Mocking proud boys and self depricating humor about not wanting to be intimate with libs or chuds. Also just a general anti horny posting initiative.
Mocking proud boys
its called fascism, learn your history kids, https://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/blog/festival-of-the-future-city/sex-sexuality-and-the-alt-right-in-nineteen-eighty-four/
You really thought you could produce a struggle session out of this didn't you
There's nothing funny about the volcel pledge or the volcel police
Remember when a bunch of libs (subredditdrama I think) started refering to us as chapocels but gave up after it became obvious that the sub found it far funnier than they did?
Didn't one of the 4chan madlads actually put pictures of his dick on the subreddit for people to laugh at?
I have no idea where they came from but yes, the subreddit did once succeed in making a chud post hog
on one of the first ten or so Chapo episodes, they made a crack about incels and volcels
the bit wound up having benefits in that it helped the subreddit develop as a safer space from the usual male worldview on reddit
I think it was in reference to a Zack Snyder Superman capeshit movie. Man of Steel, maybe? The running bit was that Superman had super powers because he rejects Lois's advances, and thus, as a volcel, is the opposite of an incel. The bot on the old sub added a reference to the "protect our precious bodily fluids" gag from Dr. Strangelove.
Perfect example of this in action is Bronies or the 👌 hand symbol, both were either ops or jokes in 4chan that evolved into people taking them seriously then either unironically watching MLP or using the ok hand as a fascist symbol.
Also, basically what happened to Conservapedia. It started out as a conservative echo chamber/safe space, and then trolls started pouring in and turning up the batshit insanity dial to 11. The cons went along with it because, well, they're conservatives, and they wholeheartedly believe everything they read on the internet.
Cis straight men like to post awful and creepy things about women
This is now a thread about themes of sexuality and oppression in the book 1984
https://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/blog/festival-of-the-future-city/sex-sexuality-and-the-alt-right-in-nineteen-eighty-four
‘We are the dead … you are the dead’. An examination of sexuality as a weapon of revolt in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/095892300102452
“In the Place Where There is no Darkness”: Sexuality, Ideology and Space in George Orwell’s 1984 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00144940.2018.1536640?src=recsys
https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/engl-246-fall2011/2011/12/19/sex-law-and-power-in-orwell%E2%80%99s-nineteen-eighty-four/
