Ever since I wrote an article about Nico Sneako, an "incel" influencer —whose young (some of them pre-teen) fans were captured on video recently shouting really scary woman-hating, gay-hating things — I've wondered about something.

Sneako is not an unattractive young man. Maybe he's not a 10 out of 10 by conventional attractiveness standards, but he's not a 2 or 3 either. If I encountered him on the street, I would think he was an ordinarily attractive, normal guy.

If I were younger and met him in a gay bar, I might even ask him out. He's not "ugly," and even his personality, from what I've seen in his videos, is not particularly grating or off-putting. He can be charming, even.

So, why does he identify as an incel? Why do boys who aren't even physically old enough to have sex look up to him as a hero for his incel ideas? Surely, they can't think of themselves as incels. Can they?

Yet, there they are on video, all of 11 to 13 years old, chanting, "fuck the women, fuck the women." (Besides urging that gay men should be killed.)

I don't get it. I understand that children are impressionable, and I don't suppose they're all going to grow up retaining those incel values. But I don't get Sneako. At all.