There's definitely a toxicity issue with hexbear tankies. One of them linked me a video saying it was the "funniest sh*t they've ever seen". It was of a cartoon grandpa turning himself into a pickle. Just simple commentary about the lengths men will go to avoid self-criticism, even absurdly becoming a pickle which isn't scientifically possible. I have seen funnier things and more intelligent cartoons WITHOUT needing to resort to profanity to share them. Rhetorical violence is all they know.

I was looking and I find a different one than I remember! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377612857_General_Risk_Index_A_Measure_for_Predicting_Violent_Behavior_Through_Written_Communication

Yes, it's true. Except it wasn't like it was a proper study, more like a paper done by someone not taken very seriously by the academic community IIRC

https://hexbear.net/post/631450?scrollToComments=false

Y'all are posting the wrong one. It was Richard Rogers and here's his site: https://www.rogersperspectives.com/

He hasn't included Hexbear by name in the most recent "FRAMES OF MISINFORMATION, EXTREMISM, & CONSPIRACISM A Purposive Sample of Social-Media Channels, Discussion Forums, and Web Pages December 2023 Monthly Summary" but he DID get funding from the National Institute of Justice for the next 3 years of Frames reports so maybe we will get featured again. (https://ysu.edu/news/ysu-receives-award-national-institute-justice-research-violent-and-accelerationist-discourse)

May 2023 was the last one IIRC that we were mentioned in: https://web.archive.org/web/20230919015730/https://www.rogersperspectives.com/_files/ugd/86bb54_b3f617b3053443289aaee072161e470f.pdf

I regularly call for the death of officials and individuals as well as entire classes, yet I was not named in these papers, curious