gymcel

English

Etymology

gym +‎ -cel

Noun

gymcel (plural gymcels)

1. (incel slang) An incel who works out to become more physically fit and improve their sexual market value.
   • 2020, Sara Brzuszkiewicz, “Incel Radical Milieu and External Locus of Control”, in The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague (ICCT) Evolutions in Counter-Terrorism‎^[1], volume 2, page 6:

     Most likely, they will end up being gymcels, i.e. incels who go to the gym trying to improve their bodies.

   • 2020, anonymous, quoted in Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 54:

     lmao at all of the gymcels telling me I'm wrong but not realising their gymcelling has failed to attract a single girl which actually proves my point

   • 2021, anonymous, quoted in Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 24:

     It was chosen as it is one of the most viewed and commented threads on the forum. “[Tinder Experiment] Ugly gymcel gets hot Tinder matches! [Spicy thread] [GTFIH]” from the 14/1, 2018. This thread is also a “Tinder experiment” thread and was chosen because of the same criteria as the previous thread.

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Verb

gymcel (third-person singular simple present gymcels, present participle gymcelling, simple past and past participle gymcelled)

1. (incel slang) To work out to become more physically fit and increase one's sexual market value.
   • 2020, "OrangeFez2311", quoted in Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 25:

     However, many insist that, for truecels, looksmaxing does not actually improve one’s status: “Gymcelling doesn't work. We all know that. You need good genes to succeed at gymcelling, and if you have such genes you'll never need to gymcel anyway because women will be naturally attracted you and you'd have been getting validation for as long as you were getting pubes,” says OrangeFez2311.

   • 2020, anonymous, quoted in Vanja Zdjelar, "Alone together: Exploring community on an incel forum", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 54:

     I gymcel at home with minimum equipment... my father did so with no equipment back in the day (rocky style). Your logic is stupid.

   • 2021, anonymous, quoted in Hugo Engholm, "The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus", thesis submitted to the University of Uppsala, page 48:

     The game is rigged. Average looking guys have to gymcel for years and get minor surgeries and have extremely low levels of body fat all year round, […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gymcel.

Hypernyms

• looksmaxx