An image released by the Santa Barbara County sheriff’s department shows 22-year old Elliot Rodger, who went on a shooting rampage that killed six people before killing himself. (Michael Nelson/EPA) Elliot Rodger will forever be known as  the 22-year-old who murdered six people in Santa Barbara on May 23. But Rodger’s extensive digital footprint, as well as his stomach-turning YouTube send-off and 137-page manifesto, suggest that he may have identified himself differently: as an “incel,” or involuntary virgin; as an aspirational, if frustrated, pick-up artist; and as an adherent of the so-called “manosphere” — that corner of the Internet where […]

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