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Not all incels are blackpillers and [[noncel blackpiller|not all blackpillers are incels]]. The media often conflate the two. More [[pill jargon|generally]], a blackpill is any uncomfortable truth associated with extreme negativity, pessimism and fatalism. | Not all incels are blackpillers and [[noncel blackpiller|not all blackpillers are incels]]. The media often conflate the two. More [[pill jargon|generally]], a blackpill is any uncomfortable truth associated with extreme negativity, pessimism and fatalism. | ||
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== Relation to the bluepill == | == Relation to the bluepill == | ||
The blackpill can be seen as a counterweight to the prevalent and bluepilled assumption that having a poor social and [[romance|romantic]] life is mostly [[Neoliberalism|one's own fault]] and/or a matter of cultivating a positive [[personality]]. It provides an basis whereby one can reject day-to-day [[platitude]] and the commonly fraudulent "[[work on yourself|self-improvement]]" advice that is ubiquitous in media, advertising and the [[redpill]]. | The blackpill can be seen as a counterweight to the prevalent and bluepilled assumption that having a poor social and [[romance|romantic]] life is mostly [[Neoliberalism|one's own fault]] and/or a matter of cultivating a positive [[personality]]. It provides an basis whereby one can reject day-to-day [[platitude]] and the commonly fraudulent "[[work on yourself|self-improvement]]" advice that is ubiquitous in media, advertising and the [[redpill]]. | ||
The growing popularity of the blackpill is a result of the failure of the [[mainstream media]] and society of [[bluepill|bluepilled]] pontification, to account for otherwise inexplicable phenomena such as the [[halo effect]], [[hybristophilia]], [[cacophobia]] and how female choosiness is leads to [[hypergamy|female hypergamy]]. | The growing popularity of the blackpill is a result of the failure of the [[mainstream media]] and society of [[bluepill|bluepilled]] pontification, to account for otherwise inexplicable phenomena such as the [[halo effect]], [[hybristophilia]], [[cacophobia]] and how female choosiness is leads to [[hypergamy|female hypergamy]]. | ||
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== Origin of the term == | == Origin of the term == | ||