The guy who shot Reagan was trying to impress an underaged actress like the guy in the movie did by shooting a politician. Of course these people have always existed.
People who never had sex even though they want to is definitely not a new thing, but the term and especially its current usage that isn’t even exclusive to virgins (e.g. people call Andrew Tate an incel, even though he’s more accurately described as a rapist and slaver) is newer.
They’ve always existed, they just have been given a label in recent times. Can’t say what they were like that long ago since there was no internet and I wasn’t alive until '85. I’m guessing they were just seemingly regular miserable bastards instead of the loud obnoxious ones you see online, since they had no platform to be loud about their bullshit. Or they were straight up rapists.
