-pilled
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Influenced by redpilled, blackpilled, etc. whose stems refer to the colour of the notional pill rather than their actual effects.
Suffix[edit]
-pilled (adjective-forming suffix, comparative more -pilled, superlative most -pilled)
- (originally 4chan slang) Forming adjectives denoting dedication to or a heightened awareness of something.
- bread + -pilled → breadpilled (referring to The Conquest of Bread and anarcho-communism)
- [2022 June 3, Günseli Yalcinkaya, “Are you content? How the internet rewired our brains”, in Dazed[1], archived from the original on 2022-12-16:
- No longer simply an allegory for the trans experience in the Matrix, or right wing radicalisation on shady corners of the internet, the 'pilled' suffix has moved beyond internet-speak and has become a part of our everyday vernacular. Have you discovered the benefits of fish oil? You're fish oil-pilled. Are you fangirling over Rihanna? You're Riri-pilled. Are you obsessed with the salacious dynamic between Euphoria's Maddy and Cassie? You're bitchpilled.]
- 2023 January 9, Lauren O'Neil, “I Simply Love To Put A Little 'X' After Everything”, in Refinery29[2], archived from the original on 2023-01-16:
- Like a lot of the online-pilled, my brain has been rotted by memes, which have become cornerstones of the way I talk to my friends who suffer from the same affliction.
- 2023 January 13, Saahil Desai, “You Don't Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is”, in The Atlantic[3], archived from the original on 2023-01-16:
- By merely looking at a pie, I can tell you whether the cornicione is too puffy or just right, if the crust could use a bit more leoparding, and whether the dough should have spent another day in the fridge. I am now, in a word, pizza-pilled.
- 2024 February 29, Jack King, “Why everyone you know is suddenly a Letterboxd head”, in GQ[4]:
- The social media app, in which users are encouraged to log, rate, and review every movie they’re watching and have ever watched, has in recent years become the social platform du jour. Martin Scorsese is Letterboxd-pilled.
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