Most active manosphere forum by post volume by end of 2013.
Red Pill movement spreads online
Event Not yet reviewed This page has not yet been through the automated review pipeline.Created on Reddit in October 2012, r/TheRedPill grows over the following year to become, by post volume, the most active community in the manosphere by the end of 2013 and the most popular by mid-2014. Reddit quarantined it in September 2018.
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Ribeiro, M. H., Blackburn, J., Bradlyn, B., Cristofaro, E. D., Stringhini, G., Long, S., Greenberg, S., & Zannettou, S. (2021). The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 15(1), 196-207. States that r/TheRedPill was created in October 2012, became the most active community by post volume by the end of 2013 and the most popular by mid-2014, and was quarantined by Reddit in September 2018. Source for this event's date and growth claims.
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Reddit, via the Internet Archive. r/TheRedPill (earliest archived capture). (2012). Capture of 27 December 2012 corroborating the subreddit's existence in late 2012. The exact creation day is not established by any source consulted, so this event carries month precision.
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Valkenburgh, S. P. V. (2021). Digesting the Red Pill: Masculinity and Neoliberalism in the Manosphere. Men and Masculinities, 24(1), 84-103. Peer-reviewed textual analysis of the r/TheRedPill sidebar material; source for what the term denotes rather than for any date.
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Tomassi, R. (2013). The Rational Male. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Tomassi's book, published in 2013. Month of publication was not confirmed against a publisher or library authority record.
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Red Pill movement spreads online
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