Manosphere Dataset — Incels.co
Incels.coContent moderationExtremismGenderHate speechIdentityPolitical communicationSocial graph A Incels.co (manosphere forum) dataset of 2,436,297 posts from 5,933 unique authors across 117,592 threads, collected by Farrell et al. via web crawl (2019-2020). Each record contains post text, author username, author title/flair, join date, post count, post timestamp, thread URL, reply interactions, embedded links. Incels.co dataset contains 2,436,297 forum posts from 2017-11 to 2019-06, part of the iDRAMA manosphere collection covering incel and anti-feminist communities. Suitable for misogyny detection, hate speech research, radicalization analysis, manosphere community studies, extremist forum analysis, NLP classification, social network analysis.
Cite this dataset at
manosphere-incels.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 123,525 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
manosphere-incels- Authors
- Horta Ribeiro, Manoel; Blackburn, Jeremy; Bradlyn, Barry; De Cristofaro, Emiliano; Stringhini, Gianluca; Long, Summer; Greenberg, Stephanie; Zannettou, Savvas
- Year
- 2021
- Source paper
- The Evolution of the Manosphere across the Web
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 2,436,297
- Nodes
- 123,525
- Edges
- 1,711,782 (directed)
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2017-11 to 2019-06 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/4007913 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-21, 12.0 GB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@article{Horta_Ribeiro_2021,
title = {The Evolution of the Manosphere across the Web},
volume = {15},
issn = {2162-3449},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053},
doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053},
journal = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
author = {Horta Ribeiro, Manoel and Blackburn, Jeremy and Bradlyn, Barry and De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Stringhini, Gianluca and Long, Summer and Greenberg, Stephanie and Zannettou, Savvas},
year = {2021},
month = May,
pages = {196–207}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Horta Ribeiro, M., Blackburn, J., Bradlyn, B., De Cristofaro, E., Stringhini, G., Long, S., Greenberg, S., & Zannettou, S. (2021). Manosphere Dataset — Incels.co [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Horta Ribeiro, Manoel, et al. Manosphere Dataset — Incels.co. 2021, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053.