When you get people showing up to events in neo Nazi iconography, being allowed to stay and play, and then the IP owner has to clarify (again) that they don't actually support hate groups? [0]
Or the community makes memes about a certain type of fan? [1]
That feels like a lot.
And I get it -- lots of people are too dumb for satire.
But when GW plays with fire they have a social safety responsibility to be extra cautious, not laissez faire 'Who could have ever forseen that burning trash in my house might lead to the entire building catching fire?'
It's a very unfortunate thing that the 40k community has mythologized this large contingent of Nazis that is allegedly omnipresent yet never even a creepshot of them surfaces at events. I feel like many more people would love to join the community (which is great) but are scared off by this self-slander the community puts on itself.
Every fandom - Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Doctor Who, D&D, gaming, anime, all of them - have garnered a vocal contingent of incels raging about "DEI" and "woke" and trying as hard as possible to shit in the pool and ruin the fun for everyone else. It's the legacy of GamerGate.
Probably a hot take but if you use the word 'incel' to label people you are kinda trash. If you use sexuality to label people in a bad way/try to demean them (especially when one of the worlds you use is involuntary I.E. out of their control), you are definitely trash.
Incelism has nothing to do with sexuality. Incel culture labels people - especially women - in bad ways and demeans them all the time. It's misogyny as an identity, it is not an immutable personal characteristic. Their participation in that culture and their behavior is entirely within their control.
