Jack Peterson is an American filmmaker and spokesman for the Incel community.
Biography
Peterson's birth name is Kalerthon Demetro. He was born in Chicago in 1998. Despite claiming to be incel, Peterson has stated that he has had a girlfriend in the past, yet claims it was not a productive relationship. By Peterson's own admission he hacked his girlfriend's emails, distributed revenge porn of her, and was attacked by her after traveling to her city of residence unannounced and repeatedly attempting to contact her. Peterson first stumbled upon the manosphere at the age of 11 on 4chan. A psychiatrist has diagnosed him as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, but this has been disputed by other doctors. He is a high school dropout. Peterson directed an experimental film, Sawgrass, which was released in 2019. After finishing the screenplay for Sawgrass, he was given career advice and motivation to complete the film from Bob Odenkirk and Ken Levine. Eric Paddock, the brother of the Las Vegas shooter, was befriended by Peterson and interviewed in Sawgrass. Aaron Fechter, the creator of The Rock-afire Explosion, also made an appearance in the film. Peterson was reported missing in December 2019, but was quickly located. Peterson confessed to working as an FBI informant for six months in 2019.
Activism
Peterson is a former staff member and chat room administrator of Incels.me, which is the largest incel website on the internet, a site he describes as more honest than other incel forums. He previously ran the "Incelcast", wherein he interviewed incels and discussed how they came to their position. His podcast also discussed the phenomenon in Japan and the likelihood of the same thing happening in the Western world. He has been the subject of television and phone interviews with the media to discuss incel topics. Peterson was the only incel to be featured on Canadian national television in the aftermath of the Toronto terrorist van attack. He believes that involuntary celibacy is a social phenomenon rather than a movement and has described online communities as support groups for discussing depression and loneliness. 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. In May 2018, Peterson announced on his YouTube channel that he left the incel community voluntarily by requesting a permanent ban on the forum "Incels.me". He appeared on Invisibilia in April 2019 claiming he was not actually ideologically reformed, but was attempting to outwardly change in whatever way he could to "make my life not horrible". Peterson still displays images of himself with popular Men's Rights Activists. Peterson made an appearance on ABC News Nightline in August 2019, discussing his departure from the incel community. In March 2020, Peterson uploaded a video to his YouTube channel claiming he hated women, and stated that his prior departure from the incel community was actually a lie in order to make money from media interviews. Peterson later stated he believes the entire universe should end because he cannot find a loyal girlfriend.
