The online incel community has taken a break from blaming women for their ongoing failures in life to issue a collective tantrum over Netflix’s new drama Adolescence, which dares—dares, mind you—to portray incel culture as the toxic, rage-filled echo chamber it so demonstrably is.
Were those the kids that would normally be incels though? When I was growing up, the ‘incel’ kids weren’t the witty class clowns, they were the quiet ones, usually with a bit of the 'tism in them.