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Dataset Card for Stormfront & Incels Raw Text

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains raw, unannotated textual posts from two online extremist platforms: Stormfront (white supremacist) and Incels.is (misogynistic). Each post is provided as a single line of text in .txt files, with no metadata.

This simplified format supports unsupervised tasks such as domain adaptation, masked language modeling, and linguistic analysis of extremist cryptolects. The dataset was used in:

IYKYK: Using language models to decode extremist cryptolects
(de Kock et al., 2025)

Files

stormfront.txt: ~9 million posts, one per line
incels.txt: ~9 million posts, one per line

All posts are in English, with minor traces of French, German, and Spanish.

Format

Text-only .txt files
One post per line

Ethical Considerations

This dataset was curated under strict ethical review. Due to the sensitive nature of the content:

All posts are from public, anonymous forums
Access is restricted to verified academic and policy researchers
Researchers should consider the psychological toll of repeated exposure to extremist content

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@misc{dekock2025iykykusinglanguagemodels,
  title={IYKYK: Using language models to decode extremist cryptolects},
  author={Christine de Kock and Arij Riabi and Zeerak Talat and Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull and Pranava Madhyastha and Eduard Hovy},
  year={2025},
  eprint={2506.05635},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CL},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05635}
}