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On incel boards like [[/r/braincels]] and [[incels.co]], and following [[chadfishing]] experiments and insights from [[online dating]], the blackpill increasingly referred to [[lookism]] with a [[good genes hypothesis|good-gener]] bent. For these blackpillers, ugly, 'genetically inferior' men have no chance of getting laid without more or less tying women down to individual men. Women are assumed to choose based on [[looks]] rather than [[personality]]. | On incel boards like [[/r/braincels]] and [[incels.co]], and following [[chadfishing]] experiments and insights from [[online dating]], the blackpill increasingly referred to [[lookism]] with a [[good genes hypothesis|good-gener]] bent. For these blackpillers, ugly, 'genetically inferior' men have no chance of getting laid without more or less tying women down to individual men. Women are assumed to choose based on [[looks]] rather than [[personality]]. | ||
The media often conflates incels with the blackpill while only a minority of incels actually subscribes to the blackpill. Even many self-identified incels do not believe in the blackpill, and many reject the [[pill jargon|pill dichotomy]] altogether. In more general terms, a 'blackpill' usually refers to anything associated with extreme fatalism, nihilism, pessimism, negativity and catastrophizing, a [[ | The media often conflates incels with the blackpill while only a minority of incels actually subscribes to the blackpill. Even many self-identified incels do not believe in the blackpill, and many reject the [[pill jargon|pill dichotomy]] altogether. In more general terms, a 'blackpill' usually refers to anything associated with extreme fatalism, nihilism, pessimism, negativity and catastrophizing, a [[redpill]], i.e. suppressed knowledge, with a particular gruesome, inevitable outcome. | ||
==Origin of the term== | ==Origin of the term== |