TBBT: r/incels Ban Intervention (2017) Analyzed
A Reddit (r/incels ban intervention, 2017) dataset of 273,009 pre-ban posts from banned community, 841,379 pre-ban control posts, 563,354 post-ban control posts, collected by Cerulli et al. via Reddit API (ICWSM 2026). Each record contains comment ID, selftext (post body), author (pseudonymized), subreddit, score, created_utc, split label (in-before/out-before/out-after). TBBT r/incels: pre- and post-ban Reddit dataset from The Big Ban Theory — standardized 3-month window around the 2017 moderation intervention with matched control communities. Suitable for content moderation effects, community migration, deplatforming research, pre/post intervention analysis, Reddit ban studies.
Reddit