In the recently released Netflix series, 'Adolescence', the audience sees the story of a family in the UK struggling with wrapping their head around the fact that their 13-year-old boy is a key suspect to the stabbing of a fellow female schoolmate to death. As the show progresses, it is revealed that James Miller, played by first-time actor Owen Cooper, was exposed to incel culture, the digital 'manosphere' and the formidable logic of online misogynists.
The four-part show, with every episode filmed in one-take style, 'Adolescence', exposes social media's grim and dark side, especially one consumed by the younger generation. But what is the so-called 'manosphere' and its most extreme subculture, 'incels,'? Here is everything you need to know about the growing online community.
