Misogynistic language is used as a recruiting and radicalizing tool, and the prevalence of keywords in online chat logs from Telegram reveals the degree to which rape culture is normalized and even celebrated, is evident from the amount of chatter that involves sexual violence.
In addition to being a tool, the distress that violent humor and rhetoric causes average members of society is thus a form of entertainment in and of itself. them” pictures delineating the boundary between the in-group and the rest of society. By centering discourse along virulently misogynistic and antisemitic lines online commentators of the far-right can paint very clear “us vs.
Such a semi-porous border creates an imagined community beyond anything that Benedict Anderson could have dreamed of in his 1983 book, Imagined Communities. The cultivation and curation of space and identity is an essential part of far-right culture online and the semi-porous border of far-right corners of the internet allow for potentially anyone to access the material of content creators such as Catboy Kami/Brooks. The screenname alone speaks to an absurdity that can only be born online, but it is exactly the absurdity of online culture that feeds into the ironic-not-so-ironic far-right humor. One figure at the center of misogynistic troll culture is Australian-native Tor Gustafsson Brooks, who goes by Catboy Kami online. Humor plays a central role in mainstreaming violent misogyny and far-right ideologies generally understanding how far-right extremists can use humor and, specifically, image-based memes, is thus a critical component of understanding the nature of the contemporary far-right.
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