Im being honest, getting hated during the peak of incel popularity gave me a sense of worth and an aura of terrible power.
I remember the media talked about ER so badly, and everyone was writing university theses.
One effect was women all around us, and we got our forums inundated with girls from true crime community, we also got the girls with the "I will save that guy" syndrome, and we got media attention, I got interviewed 3 times. We got badboy status, we got people talk about us, attentions from psychologists, people writing BS theses in sociology.
In a thesis from Bologna they quoted our shitposts, chudur budur was directly quoted. makes you laugh when what you write online ends up in an anthropology course.
Also it made me butthurt, bcause I didnt get payed for having generated revenue for journalists.
But besides that, it gave me also a sense of "im being sexually objectified" and wrote some shitposts. Women projected on us a personality "the terror edgy stylized killer", may seem fascinating at first, but later you see the crushing weight of that social status, and you realize youre nothing but a toy.