Turns out he was an incel.
Jake Davison was obsessed with the fact that he didn't have a girlfriend and subscribed to the so-called 'blackpill' movement
www.telegraph.co.uk
The
suspected Plymouth shooter described being “defeated by life” in videos recorded just weeks before the massacre, as he blamed his troubles on not having a girlfriend.
Jake Davison, a 23-year-old apprentice crane operator, described himself on his YouTube channel as an ‘incel’ and made references to the ‘blackpill’ philosophy to which the radical fringe group subscribes.
An apparent
gun obsession was also apparent from a playlist of videos compiled by Davison.
On Thursday night, witnesses claimed a gunman had “gone berserk” in Plymouth before opening fire. The suspect was named locally as Mr Davison.
Five people including a young girl "under ten years old" were killed during the shooting spree in the Keyham area of the city.
There were reports the victims included the shooter’s parents and police said the gunman was found dead at the scene from a gunshot wound.
In his final video blog, on July 28, the suspected killer spends 11 minutes ranting about how his life has hit a dead end, as he struggles to attract women or lose weight.
“I’m beaten down and defeated by f****** life, that drive I once had, that’s gone,” he says.
At the climax of his final video blog, Davison claims he likes to think “I’m a Terminator”.
He continues: “The whole premise of the
Terminator movies is that you know everything is rigged against you, there's no hope for humanity, you know, we're on the brink of extinction, these machines are unstoppable killing machines that can't be beaten, can't be outsmarted, but yet humanity still tries to fight to the end.
“I know it's a movie, but, you know, I like to think sometimes I'm a Terminator or something and despite reaching almost total system failure, he keeps trying to accomplish his mission.”
Davison earlier claims that “most people would have been completely, utterly broken if they had lived my f****** life”.
Despite insisting he was not trying to stage a “pity party”, Davison goes on to claim the only way his life would be worse would be if he had suffered sexually abuse.
“For the most part, it’s just been me against the world, it’s just been me fighting an uphill battle with a big f****** rock on my back, while I’m seeing motherf****** that don’t deserve half of anything, they’re getting a free road to the top,” he says.
He describes working in construction scaffolding as a teenager, when he felt positive about life - he was “finally going to move out...get my passport...do all the things I wanted to do in life”.
This all changed, he complains, after he suffered an ankle injury. He says he struggled to recover from the setback in the way other men, like professional fighters, would.
“I always keep trying but it's like I'm at the point now where it's like, why do I even bother? For what? I'm still in the same house, same situation, same position, still everything's the same,” he says.
He ruefully reflects that other men have wives and children to support them.
“Does an incel, a virgin get that? No,” he continues.
"I'm socially isolated have no social circle and don't know any girls. Been in male dominated environments most my life. Last girl I spoke to was when i was 18 years old unless you count cashiers and supermarkets."
Comments made by Davison below his YouTube videos further espouse the worldviews of an incel, short for involuntary celibate.
The subculture is made up of young men who consider themselves unable to attract women sexually. Their views are characterised by deep misogyny and hostility towards the opposite sex.
In one online comment, Davison, who is a weightlifter, said he had been “consuming the blackpill overdose”.
The blackpill, named as an alternative to the so-called bluepill and redpill in the Matrix films, is a fatalist outlook centred on the belief that success with the opposite sex is determined at by genetics at birth.
According to one article online, blackpillers believe that no amount of working out (gymmaxxing), earning money (betabuxxing), or sexual strategy (running game) will ever lead to a relationship. They believe there is nothing left to do but to commit suicide (rope) or lay down and rot (LDAR).
Davison says in one YouTube comment beneath his own video: “The blackpill makes you looks (sic) obsessed I never used to be this way the longer you go without any kind of interaction with women and sex relationships etc etc the more you become concerned about looks but blackpill turbo charges it.”
In one online comment, Davison (pictured), who is a weightlifter, said he had been 'consuming the blackpill overdose'
In another video, uploaded three weeks before the shooting, Davison goes on a 10-minute misogynistic rant about biological attraction.
He accuses most women of being “very simple-minded” and only being drawn to attractive men.
“The reality is, and, this is my view, I think a big proportion of people don't realize that black pill doesn't just apply to incels guys, it applies to a lot of guys these days not having sex for six months, for a year,” he says.
He then continues, in a particularly shocking outburst: “Why do you think sexual assaults and all these things keep rising? The reality is that women don't need men no more and they certainly don't want and don't need average men and below average, you have to go abroad to fund a woman.”
Over several years, Davison had liked nearly 800 videos on YouTube which point to an obsession with US gun culture and the second amendment, violent video games, and heavy weight lifting.
In several videos, YouTube personalities from the US take the viewer through various gun demonstrations, including shooting a teddy bear and an SUV vehicle with a rifle and 20mm bullets.
One video from the US gun show includes a salesman showing off a pistol inspired by the former US President Donald Trump. The gun, which was being sold for $3,000, had 'make america great again' inscribed on its side.
Aside from a clear fascination with firearms, Davison also watched a vast range of videos on weightlifting and dieting, including one clip titled 'Why Am I Fat?'.
His obsession with his weight and looks appears rooted in a misogynistic desire for a girlfriend, with several of the videos he liked asking “why women always lie” and “why toxic masculinity is a lie”.
One video looks at “why some hot women date down” and “why she dates a fat man”.
Davison also liked a clip from a video game which was shared on YouTube in Jan 2015, where the male character says he is “looking for a whore”.
Incel culture has been associated with a string of killings and acts of violence, particularly in the US.
Elliot Rodger, 22, became a spiritual figurehead of the incel movement when he murdered six people in Isla Vista, California, in 2014.
Before his deadly rampage, Rodger had uploaded a YouTube video outlining his attack and motives in which he said he wanted to take revenge on women for rejecting him.
