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Can anyone think of any notable artworks produced by extremely online and transgressive subcultures like incels (but not limited to them)? Things like Negative XP. Ideally things with some artistic merit and not just meme value (like Elliot Roger's My Twisted World).
There's Saya no Uta, the visual novel. It's an anti-Crime and Punishment where the protag is pushed into doing evil through external circumstances, but instead of succumbing to guilt he slowly embraces the status of a monster -- partly because he has no choice, but partly because once the walls of normalcy have collapsed it's an oddly comfortable and liberating way to live -- though it could end violently at any time, and almost definitely will. The acute periods of violence are interspersed with a level of freedom and calm we never really get in our lives, being beyond the purview of all laws except those of nature. What's impressive is I'm not confident this was a deliberate aim of the writers. Because typically for us to take a theme away from a story, the writers will make a clear and deliberate effort early on to draw our attention, regardless of where the story's at; they'll bend the plot or characters to this end too. But here is an uncommon case where a theme emerges naturally, and the hand of the writer is never felt. I really admire this kind of story more than any other, because it has the highest likelihood of teaching us.
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The first and only one that comes to mind is Katawa Shoujo, a hentai visual novel made by a bunch of people from 4chan, based off of a page of sketches of a bunch of disabled girls by a hentai artist named Raita. It's a basic dating sim style visual novel where the protagonist goes to a school for disabled people and can bed girls who are deaf, blind, lacking legs, lacking arms, or just has severe burns over most of her body. It's quite good and was well received and, IIRC, had a Steam release in the last year (all versions of it are completely free, AFAIK).
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