Manosphere Dataset — Love-Shy
A Manosphere forum (Love-Shy) dataset of 29,232 posts from 826 unique authors on Love-Shy, collected by Ribeiro et al. via web crawl (2021). Each record contains post text (text_post), author (author), timestamp, post metadata. 29,232 posts from Love-Shy — part of the Evolution of the Manosphere dataset covering incel, MGTOW, PUA, and related anti-feminist communities across 9 forums. Suitable for manosphere discourse analysis, incel radicalization research, hate speech detection, community evolution, misogynistic content analysis, toxicity measurement.
Cite this dataset at
manosphere-love-shy.echo.directory
Analytics
Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
manosphere-love-shy- Authors
- Horta Ribeiro, Manoel; Blackburn, Jeremy; Bradlyn, Barry; De Cristofaro, Emiliano; Stringhini, Gianluca; Long, Summer; Greenberg, Stephanie; Zannettou, Savvas
- Year
- 2021
- Source paper
- The Evolution of the Manosphere across the Web
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053
- License
- CC BY 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 29,232
- Nodes
- 827
- Edges
- 826 (directed)
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2000s to 2020 (2000s, 2010s, 2020s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/4007913 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-21, 1.3 GB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@article{Horta_Ribeiro_2021,
title = {The Evolution of the Manosphere across the Web},
volume = {15},
issn = {2162-3449},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053},
doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053},
journal = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
author = {Horta Ribeiro, Manoel and Blackburn, Jeremy and Bradlyn, Barry and De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Stringhini, Gianluca and Long, Summer and Greenberg, Stephanie and Zannettou, Savvas},
year = {2021},
month = May,
pages = {196–207}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Horta Ribeiro, M., Blackburn, J., Bradlyn, B., De Cristofaro, E., Stringhini, G., Long, S., Greenberg, S., & Zannettou, S. (2021). Manosphere Dataset — Love-Shy [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Horta Ribeiro, Manoel, et al. Manosphere Dataset — Love-Shy. 2021, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053.