Jack R. Peterson
American former spokesperson for the incelosphere
Jack Richard Peterson is an American filmmaker, media personality, and former, self-proclaimed representative of a community of the incelosphere named incels.me.
Certain media outlets describe Jack as a spokesperson for incels.me during April 2018, while The Daily Beast describes him as unpopular within incels.me and also at one point sanctioned by incels.me staff during April 2018. During his involvement with the forum and after his alleged forum departure in May 2018, he became an on-off media personality on the subject of incels from 2018–2021.
After the 2018 Toronto van attack, Jack disavowed misogynistic incels.me members and spoke out against hate speech in media interviews, eventually claiming to have left all incel communities entirely.
Incelosphere activity
incels.me activity
Peterson has claimed in media interviews to have been a minor staff member of incels.me and presented himself as an incels.me spokesperson during April 2018. Journalist Mandy Stadtmiller paints a different picture. During April 2018, while Jack was still a member of the incels.me forum, Mandy writes that Jack was banned by incels.me staff from the incels.me public chat room, before Jack made a 30 minute PowerPoint video to be let back in. According to Mandy, Jack was also insulted as a 'status-seeker' and an 'opportunist' by the incels.me community for attempting to represent their community and trying to paint the incels.me forum in a positive light.
Departure from incels.me
Jack subsequently began portraying incels in general in a more negative light, describing many as 'entitled' and stating he changed his mind about the hate speech on the incels.me forum being 'ironic'. During May 2018, Peterson announced on his YouTube channel that he left incels.me voluntarily by requesting a permanent ban on incels.me.
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