Meanings
- uncountableincel slangSomething that causes one to feel schadenfreude or nihilistic satisfaction, especially over the suffering of women.
When Stephen Paddock massacred dozens of “normies” at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Reddit’s incels celebrated the news as “PURE LIFEFUEL.”
2018 May 5, David Futrelle, “The Time For 'Incel' Explainers Was Years Ago”, in Huffington Post2 more examples
In the wake of the Toronto van attacks, for example, Minassian was celebrated not merely as a giver of “lifefuel” to the incels, but also as a prophet of black pill ideology—someone whose destruction of the normies would herald a wider apocalypse.
2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered pageAn example of a LifeFuel thread is titled “Whore crying because her chad bf murdered (sic)”, where a woman’s boyfriend was killed in a terrorist attack and incels responded saying “lmao cry little whore”.
2020, Katrine Rummelhoff, "Incels and Misogyny; what’s so appealing about hatred?", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 59
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