Having had one's eyes opened to a supposedly hidden truth, especially in the context of right-wing or anti-mainstream politics.
what if it's the reverse and everyone is dumber from using AI and red-pilled by the elite who actually still educate their kids, while the rest are drip fed their UBI?
They've turned it into a verb, and spread it so successfully that to be “red-pilled” is now widely understood shorthand for having your eyes opened to a certain kind of “conservatism”—generally nationalistic, often wh…
Having had one's eyes opened to a supposedly hidden truth, especially in the context of right-wing or anti-mainstream politics. From The Matrix.
"He went red-pilled after watching too much YouTube."
"red-pilled" means having had one's eyes opened to a supposedly hidden truth, especially in the context of right-wing or anti-mainstream politics. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
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A suffix attached to any topic to mean "fully converted to that viewpoint." "Espresso-pilled," "bike-pilled," "sleep-pilled." From "red-pilled" (The Matrix, 1999), generalized to any conversion. The word works because it compresses "I tried this, it changed me, I'm now proselytizing" into one syllable.
Having been awakened to the full, unfiltered truth of a situation — so thoroughly that you can no longer unsee it or pretend otherwise. Someone who is real-pilled has had their illusions stripped away and now operates on uncomfortable honesty, whether about relationships, society, or themselves. Unlike red-pill rhetoric, real-pilled is context-neutral and often humorous, describing the moment you finally accept what everyone around you has been saying. It's the slang equivalent of taking off the rose-colored glasses permanently.
(internet slang) One who believes that society is gynocentric.
08. [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Courrielche#cite_ref-8)["Premiere Launches iHeart Original Podcast 'Red Pilled America.'"](http://www.insideradio.com/free/premiere-launches-iheart-original-podcast-red-pi…
"red-pilled" means having had one's eyes opened to a supposedly hidden truth, especially in the context of right-wing or anti-mainstream politics. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
"red-pilled" is informal English meaning having had one's eyes opened to a supposedly hidden truth, especially in the context of right-wing or anti-mainstream politics. It is used widely across English varieties. A more formal or neutral equivalent would be something like "having had one's eyes opened to a supposedly hidden truth" expressed in standard vocabulary. A common mistake is to assume "red-pilled" can replace its standard equivalent in every register; keep it for spoken or casual situations and use the formal form in writing.
“what if it's the reverse and everyone is dumber from using AI and red-pilled by the elite who actually still educate their kids, while the rest are drip fed their UBI?”
“They've turned it into a verb, and spread it so successfully that to be “red-pilled” is now widely understood shorthand for having your eyes opened to a certain kind of “conservatism”—generally nationalistic, often white-supremacist, and nearly always suffused with violent misogyny.”
“08. [↑](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Courrielche#cite_ref-8)["Premiere Launches iHeart Original Podcast 'Red Pilled America.'"](http://www.insideradio.com/free/premiere-launches-iheart-original-podcast-red-pilled-america/article_fa401172-dbbc-11e8-b25c-e750be9d82a8.html). _Insideradio.com_.”
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Naive, conformist, accepting mainstream narratives. Counterpart to red-pilled.