Tegning: Philip Ytournel

Suddenly, words and hashtags from shady online forums are appearing on mainstream platforms like TikTok. Young people risk getting used to concepts that normalize self-hatred and a misogynistic worldview, according to a counseling organization.

Explosion in the incel-sphere's scope is felt in Danish classrooms

Tegning: Philip Ytournel
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There has been an unsettling shift online that worries Sandra Halskov.

For it might draw far more Danish teenage boys into toxic communities built on self-loathing and misogyny.

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