Style-Shifting Behaviour of the Manosphere on Reddit

Jai Aggarwal, Suzanne Stevenson


Abstract
Hate speech groups (HSGs) may negatively influence online platforms through their distinctive language, which may affect the tone and topics of other spaces if spread beyond the HSGs. We explore the linguistic style of the Manosphere, a misogynistic HSG, on Reddit. We find that Manospheric authors have a distinct linguistic style using not only uncivil language, but a greater focus on gendered topics, which are retained when posting in other communities. Thus, potentially harmful aspects of Manospheric style carry over into posts on non-Manospheric subreddits, motivating future work to explore how this stylistic spillover may negatively influence community health.
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2024.emnlp-main.1226
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Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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21976–21989
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Jai Aggarwal and Suzanne Stevenson. 2024. Style-Shifting Behaviour of the Manosphere on Reddit. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 21976–21989, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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