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Emory Andrew Tate III is an American and British social media personality, businessman, and former professional kickboxer who gained notoriety for promoting various highly controversial positions in the manosphere. His commentary has resulted in his expulsion from various social media platforms and concern that he promotes misogynistic views to his audience. A divisive influencer, Tate has amassed 10.7 million followers on Twitter as of June 2025 and was the third-most googled person in 2023. He has been dubbed the "king of toxic masculinity", has called himself a misogynist, and is politically described as both right-wing and far-right. As of March 2025, Tate is facing six legal investigations—four criminal and two civil—in Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Logan Alexander Paul is an American influencer, professional wrestler, entrepreneur, boxer, singer and actor. He has over 23 million subscribers on his YouTube channel Logan Paul Vlogs and has ranked on the Forbes list for the highest-paid YouTube creators in 2017, 2018, and 2021. He is the co-founder of beverage company Prime and snack brand Lunchly. Paul has also run the Impaulsive podcast since November 2018, which has over four million YouTube subscribers. In December 2025, Paul was appointed General Partner of the venture capital firm Anti Fund, which was co-founded by his brother Jake Paul. As a wrestler, he has been signed to WWE since June 2022, where he performs on the Raw brand. He is a member of The Vision stable and is one-half of the World Tag Team Champions with stablemate Austin Theory in their first reign, both as a team and individually. He is also a former one-time WWE United States Champion.

An incel ( ; a portmanteau of "involuntary celibate") is a member of an online subculture of mostly male and heterosexual people who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one. They often blame, objectify, and denigrate women and girls as a result. The term inspired a subculture that rose to prominence during the 2010s, after being influenced by and associated with misogynist terrorists such as Elliot Rodger and Alek Minassian.

practice of publicly shaming, rejecting, and ceasing to provide support to people perceived as problematic

Jake Joseph Paul is an American professional boxer, influencer and actor. He began his career posting videos on Vine in September 2013 and had amassed 5.3 million followers and 2 billion views before the app was discontinued. He launched his YouTube channel, Jake Paul, in May 2014, and was ranked by Forbes as one of the highest-paid YouTube creators of the 2010s and 2020s.

American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actress

Japanese-Australian entertainer (born 1992)

The manosphere is a varied collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism. Communities within the manosphere include men's rights activists (MRAs), incels (involuntary celibates), Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), pick-up artists (PUA), and fathers' rights groups. While the specifics of each group's beliefs sometimes conflict, they are generally united in the belief that society is biased against men due to the influence of feminism, and that feminists promote misandry (hatred of men). Acceptance of these ideas is described as "takin

conspiracy theory about the World Wide Web

American YouTuber, streamer and singer (born 1999)

American newspaper (founded 2000)

Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis but has expanded dramatically.

genre of hip-hop music

short squeeze of GameStop stock and many other assets in 2021

character.ai (also known as c.ai, char.ai or Character AI) is a generative AI chatbot service where users can engage in conversations with customizable characters. It was designed by the developers of Google LaMDA, Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas.

Desmond Daniel Amofah (May 12, 1990 – ), better known as Etika, was an American YouTuber and live streamer. Amofah became known online for his dramatic reactions to Super Smash Bros. character trailers, Nintendo Direct presentations, and for playing and reacting to various games. He resided in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, his father is the Ghanaian politician Owuraku Amofah and his granduncle is the former Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo. Starting his online career in 2007, Amofah created his main YouTube channel, "EWNetwork" (Etika World Network), in 2012. His fanbase was dubbed

American actor

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protest movement against Church of Scientology censorship on the Internet

15.ai is a free non-commercial web application and research project that uses artificial intelligence to generate text-to-speech voices of fictional characters from popular media. Created by a pseudonymous artificial intelligence researcher known as 15, who began developing the technology as a freshman during their undergraduate research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the application allows users to make characters from video games, television shows, and movies speak custom text with emotional inflections. The platform is able to generate convincing voice output using mini

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French streamer (1979–2025)

American live streamer (born 1982)

website that deliberately publishes hoaxes and disinformation

2020 death by suicide in Mississippi, US

American Internet personality

Ramsey Khalid Ismael, better known as Johnny Somali, is an American former live streamer and YouTuber, best known for his provocative and hostile behavior while in other countries. Ismael has been banned from Twitch, Kick, Rumble and Parti. His behavior has resulted in his arrest, detention and conviction in various countries, including Japan, Israel, and South Korea. Ismael pled guilty to several charges in South Korea, and in 2026 he was sentenced to six months in prison.

measure used to restrict access to digital content by age

American facial recognition company

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2022 crime fiction novel written by J. K. Rowling

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BetterHelp is a mental health platform that provides direct online counseling and therapy services via web or phone text communication. BetterHelp was founded in 2013 by Alon Matas and Danny Bragonier, and acquired by Teladoc in 2015, maintaining its service and brand name post-acquisition.

/pol/, short for Politically Incorrect, is an anonymous political discussion imageboard on 4chan, created in 2011. As of 2022, it was the most active board on the site. It has had a substantial impact on Internet culture. It has acted as a platform for far-right extremism; the board is well known for its widespread racist, white supremacist, antisemitic, Islamophobic, misogynist, and anti-LGBTQ content. /pol/ has been linked to various acts of real-world extremist violence. It has been described as one of the "[centers] of 4chan mobilization", a title also ascribed to :/b/.

political lobby group created by Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon

Daniel M. Keem (born March 8, 1982), known online as Keemstar, is an American YouTuber, podcaster, and streamer who is mainly known for being the host of the Internet popular culture news show DramaAlert.

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Comicsgate is an alt-right harassment campaign meant to oppose diversity and progressivism in the North American superhero comic book industry. Its proponents targeted the creators hired, the characters depicted, and the stories told, and claimed that these elements have led to a decline in both quality and sales. The name is derived from Gamergate, a similar movement related to video games. Its members present it as a consumer protest, primarily advocating their views on social media; some have produced books intended to reflect the group's values. It is part of the alt-right movement, and ha

American internet reviewer website and associated business entity

Jonathan Aryan Jafari (born March 24, 1990), better known online as JonTron, is an American YouTuber and comedian. He created the eponymous YouTube web series JonTron, where he reviews and parodies video games, films and other media.

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Non-governmental internet organization of South Korea to promote Korean culture and history

American YouTuber and influencer

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