Jack Peterson

Jack Richard Peterson is an American filmmaker, media personality, and former, self-proclaimed representative of a community of the incelosphere named incels.me.

Certain media outlets describe Jack as a spokesperson for incels.me during April 2018, while The Daily Beast describes him as unpopular within incels.me and also at one point sanctioned by incels.me staff during April 2018. During his involvement with the forum and after his alleged forum departure in May 2018, he became an on-off media personality on the subject of incels from 2018–2021.

After the 2018 Toronto van attack, Jack disavowed misogynistic incels.me members and spoke out against hate speech in media interviews, eventually claiming to have left all incel communities entirely.

Incel communities activity incels.me activity Peterson has claimed in media interviews to have been a minor staff member of incels.me and presented himself as an incels.me spokesperson during April 2018. During May 2018, Peterson announced on his YouTube channel that he left incels.me voluntarily by requesting a permanent ban on incels.me. He appeared on Invisibilia in April 2019 stating he was in the process of changing in whatever way he could to "make my life not horrible".

Peterson made an appearance on ABC News Nightline in August 2019, discussing his departure from the incel community.

Incel podcast He previously ran the "Incelcast", wherein he interviewed incels and discussed how they came to their position. Peterson describes incels as commonly being males in their late teens who are shy.

Peterson has compared the demonization of inceldom to the generalizations and subsequent xenophobic and Islamophobic sentiments faced by Muslims in the aftermath of Islamist violence.

Missing persons report Peterson was reported missing in December 2019, but was quickly located.