How I Got Radicalized

I Was a Teen Troll Against Incels on 4Chan

For years, I was an anonymous vigilante against their extreme hate

Kaylin Dodson
GEN
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7 min readMar 12, 2021
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Welcome to How I Got Radicalized, a series from GEN that tells the story of a cultural moment that made you drastically rethink how society works.

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Kaylin Dodson
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