red pill

"This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill: you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus, The Matrix

'Red pill' has become a popular phrase among cyberculture and signifies a free-thinking attitude, and a waking up from a "normal" life of sloth and ignorance. Red pills prefer the truth, no matter how gritty and painful it may be.

"I took the red pill"

by ironuckles October 29, 2004

Red pill

Red pill is the concept that what is presented as truth by the corporate press is, in fact, a carefully constructed narrative designed to keep some very unpleasant people in power.

My comfortable illusions fed to me by Fox and CNN were shattered when I realized we weren't nation building in the Middle East, but serving the interests of military tech corporations and politicians at the cost of peoples lives. I'd taken the Red pill.

by boss_baby2010 January 7, 2021

red pill

The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are a popular cultural meme, a metaphor representing the choice between: Red Pill: A life of harsh knowledge, desperate freedom, and the brutal truths of reality. Blue Pill: A life of luxurious security, tranquil happiness, and the blissful ignorance of illusion. It probably originates from the movie "Matrix".

The Matrix's red pill of truth has long been a symbol for the online misogynists of the men's-rights movement.

by NTGRX April 23, 2019

Red Pill

A movement for pathetic men to feel special about themselves. The idea itself comes from the matrix, where in the film taking the red pill means that you see the reality of life no matter how painful it is. In recent years a lot of internet personas (such as professional douchebag Andrew Tate) have used this philosophy as a cash cow to take advantage of the waves of fatherless virgins that make up the fanbase of red pill preachers. They often speak to their fanbase by claiming that by following their teachings, they will gain the successes they desire. The irony is that there's a rather obvious disconnect between the preachers and the followers of the red pill philosophy, to the point where it becomes painfully obvious to those not indoctrinated that it's a load of bologna used by those who preach this ideology in order to sell bogus online courses to their fans. Most often these courses will supposedly detail how to get money or get women to like you. However, if these losers actually wanted these things they'd be thinking for themselves (another irony, since red pill also encourages free thought) and wouldn't need advice from these scumbags. TLDR a movement for losers adopted by scammers to take advantage of said losers

"Bro Malcolm is such a loser. I hear he's one of those incels who watches that Andrew Tate guy."

"Ikr. What a red pill bootlicker"

by Suckmytoes_77 September 30, 2023

red pill

Part of a trace program. It's designed to disrupt your input/output signal so your location can be pin-pointed.

You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and trip your balls off.

by DrAlbertHofmann January 21, 2005

Red Pill

A term referring to someone who has converted their beliefs to those of the alt-right. It is a reference to a scene in the Matrix, a film by two trans woman.

Person 1: I have been red pilled, I can see the world for what it really is now.
Person 2: Look at this alt-right fascist weirdo.

by SGoW November 28, 2020

Red Pill

Becoming “red pilled” is when you break free from believing what society tells you to believe and instead believe whatever other red pilled people tell you to believe so you can be just like all the other unique people

“He isn’t red pilled. He doesn’t agree with us”

by Buttpoo April 27, 2022