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No. 05

Looksmaxxing & Inceldom: An Investigation

(Qualitative Media Research)

Research * Discourse Analysis * Digital Ethnography

Conducted an original semester-long qualitative research project investigating looksmaxxing's ideological origins in incel subculture and its impact on young men. Produced a literature review, discourse analysis of 34 texts across incel forums and TikTok, and a digital ethnography of a live-streamed audience of tens of thousands, including AI-assisted analysis of 32,047 chat messages.

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Title page of the research paper “Looksmaxxing and Inceldom: Investigating Looksmaxxxing’s Origins in Incel Ideology and its Impact on Young Men” by Omar Alfageeh

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