redpills
Converts to extremism
Redpills is a verb meaning to awaken someone to a hidden or suppressed truth, from the 1999 film *The Matrix* where taking a red pill reveals reality.
Originally used across political contexts, the term has become associated primarily with right-wing and men's rights communities who claim to expose uncomfortable truths about society, feminism, or politics: He got redpilled by YouTube videos.
The metaphor implies others remain willfully deluded.
Racist reactionary political movement
- manosphereMale-centric online spaces
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- radicalizationShift toward extreme ideology
- truthersSkeptics of official explanations
conspiracy · online · forums · indoctrination · extremism · recruitment · echo chamber · ideology
Become conscious again
- truthAccordance with reality
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- disillusionmentBitter loss of faith
epiphany · realization · awareness · cynicism · skepticism · seeing through · unmasking · exposing
alt-right
Racist reactionary political movement
- manosphereMale-centric online spaces
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- radicalizationShift toward extreme ideology
truthers · conspiracy · online · forums · indoctrination · extremism · recruitment · echo chamber · ideology · anti-feminist
wake up
Become conscious again
- truthAccordance with reality
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
disillusionment · epiphany · realization · awareness · cynicism · skepticism · seeing through · unmasking · exposing · disillusioned
Matrix
Nineties cyberpunk franchise
simulation · reality · illusion · awakening · Wachowskis · cyberpunk · dystopia · truth · machine · rebellion
redpillsdeceives
Causes false belief
deludes · gaslights · blinds · brainwashes · indoctrinates