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r/Vindicta

Banned · Hate

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Action: banned
Date: 2020
Reason category: Hate

Promoting hate (lookism / identity-based hostility)

Femcel-adjacent appearance-focused community removed in the 2020-2021 sweep documented in academic literature.

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Sources

01
ACM CHI — Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women's Ideological Spaces
Academic2023
02
Johanssen & Kay, 'From femcels to femcelcore', Sage
Academic2025