Adolescence has captured the world, a scary story about a teenager who murders a schoolmate after being influenced by incel culture online, and it’s not just fiction.

British mum Rachel Parker has spoken out on TikTok about the terrifying discovery that her real-life son was going through the same thing and explained how she managed to spot the signs.

She noticed that he had been “red-pilled,” a term originating from The Matrix that in this situation represents a strong hatred of women by men.

It all started when Rachel was having a normal conversation with Spencer, who was just 11 at the time, and he said: “Women are gold diggers anyway”.

“I said ‘What women?’ and he said ‘Just women in general’. I said ‘Name one woman in our life that is a gold digger’ and he said ‘Well, I don’t know any. That’s not the point’,” she recalled.

She thought that was a weird thing for an 11-year-old to say, so she asked where he had heard that and he showed her a video of some men talking about it online.

“He watched normal videos of people playing video games and then out of nowhere this information started leaking in,” the mum explained in another clip.

“Because he watched one video of it, another one came in, and then he liked that, and then another one came in.”

“We would talk about other things that came up in these videos, such as women not respecting themselves and women being on OnlyFans,” she continued.

He didn’t even know what OnlyFans was, but jumped on the “hate train”. The teenager also mentioned watching Andrew Tate and said he was sick of people “blaming men for everything”.

The scariest part of it all is that Rachel was regularly checking her son’s phone, but she didn’t notice he was watching it because he wasn’t actually searching for this content.

He would search for gaming videos on YouTube that were perfectly fine to watch, then would get served this negative content through algorithms.

After realising that her son was developing this misogynistic opinion of women, she managed to stop him from watching the clips and change his views.

“Misogyny is everywhere anyway, but recognising it and realising this is something I’ve got to tackle was probably one of the hardest things I’ve done,” she said.

“It was the most important thing I’ve done as a parent as well.”