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The '''blackpill''' is a philosophy that [[men]]'s [[dating]] problems require systemic rather than personal solutions, if a solution exists at all.<ref>https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/she-felt-unloved/#comment-22914</ref> It has emerged in opposition to the [[redpill]] movement which instead promotes [[work on yourself|self-improvement]] and [[PUA|various dating tricks]]. More generally, a 'blackpill' refers to a proclaimed fact with particular dire and inevitable consequences (see [[pill jargon]]).

The first large blackpill communities were hosted on [[Reddit]]. [[R/incels|/r/incels]] (a quarantine evasion of [[/r/truecels]]) was the first major incel community to use the term 'blackpill' and [[/r/braincels]] was the largest one. Most of the discussions there focused on [[roastie|slut-shaming]] and [[lookism]], largely ruminating on [[Tinder experiments|experiments]] and memes from [[r9k]], but also creating new ones, especially memes on lookism such as [[St. Blackops2cel]].

Some do this to lessen feelings of shame or guilt among incels and relieve them from false hope,<ref>https://incels.is/threads/what-are-you-doing-to-spread-the-blackpill.53911/#post-995860,</ref> some want to change discourse in society,<ref>https://incels.is/threads/infiltrating-universities-to-spread-the-blackpill.67531/</ref> while others are vocal about trying to full-on "spark a revolution". Seemingly, the main thing that distinguishes the most cultish members from traditional death cults is their lack of congruent or zealous community philosophical leaders. On [[incels.co]] there are no such leaders as the community admin, [[SergeantIncel]], advocates the [[whitepill]].

The person who first formalized the blackpill, [[Paragon]], believed in radical [[biological essentialism]]. The first two blackpill boards anywhere were either founded or discussion-seeded by a self-described "neo-reactionary", i.e. [[Caamib]]. Reddit made it clear they would not tolerate that style of incel discussion, and so Braincels was populated next. Braincels was a previously dormant sub founded by an anarcho-communist named [[AnathematicAnarchist]]. The forum espoused a unique version of the blackpill and was not particularly traditionalist or alt-right (outside of slut-shaming). Braincels actively sought to minimize racism in their Reddit community before [[AnathematicAnarchist]] committed suicide were largely hostile to the alt-right.<ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=racism%20&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051366&size=100</ref><ref>http://redditsearch.io/?term=alt-right&dataviz=false&aggs=false&subreddits=braincels&searchtype=posts&search=true&start=0&end=1583051401&size=100</ref>

The blackpill is a reaction against other manosphere philosophy, the [[redpill]]. Redpillers and blackpillers share some beliefs, but redpillers believe men can [[Work on Yourself|improve]] their dating situation through various [[PUA|social manipulation]] tricks and [[bodybuilding]] (internal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control locus of control]). The blackpill is also a reaction against [[social justice]] movements, which claim that society can determine human desire, and humans are not bound to their genetics. Blackpillers instead believe romantic success without 'tying women down' will always be mostly genetically predetermined (mostly only controlled through evolutionary time, or eugenics, or efforts to 'cheat' such, such as plastic surgery).

'''Lowering women's status''': Women's [[hypergamy]] means that for each man there needs to be a woman of lower status. This implies, to reduce inceldom, women's status relative to men needs to be lowered in general. Not necessarily as far that all women are below men, but many in the manosphere do advocate for this.

Such blackpillers are often driven by [[biological essentialism|essentialist]] views that female sexuality is so strongly biologically hardwired that it would require a civil war to undo the sexual revolution, or that it is simply not feasible and has also historically never been substantially better (which is false since the number of incels is likely at a [[demographics|historical peak]]).

'''Too much focus on looks''': Superficial traits like looks, height, income, masculinity are at best weak predictors of sexual success as measured by e.g. partner count,<ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-006-9075-x</ref><ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1474704915604563</ref><ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2011.587758</ref><ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Across_91_studies.2C_bodily_masculinity_was_predictive_of_men.27s_mating_and_reproductive_success</ref> with muscularity being the only consistent predictor of lifetime sexual success among a variety of superficial variables,<ref>https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.06.980896v3</ref> so looks are unlikely to explain most inceldom except for extremely physically unattractive individuals perhaps. Men are also seemingly bad at accurately judging their own looks.<ref>[https://doi.org/10.2307/3033724 http://doi.org/10.2307/3033724]</ref><ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjop.12631</ref> However, looks ''do'' matter somewhat in terms of {{W|assortative mating}} as attractiveness ratings within couples (both short and long-term) are moderately correlated (r = .4), meaning very attractive people rarely mate with very unattractive ones.<ref>https://dor.org/10.1037/0033-2909.104.2.226</ref>

'''Too little focus on economics''': Economic causes of inceldom like wealth inequality and economic stagnation come up short. Costs of living increasing discourage family formation.<ref>https://ablogaboutincels.com/2019/12/21/expectations/</ref> Millennials have only a fraction of the worth babyboomers had at the same age.<ref>[https://archive.fo/wip/z8CaW http://archive.is/wip/z8CaW]</ref> Many blackpillers only focus on hypergamy as an economic issue, but the effect sizes of women dating up are typically pretty small (see [[hypergamy]]).

 

'''Furthering the welfare state rather reducing it''': Some blackpillers hold that poverty is a better solution to inceldom than mass abundance.<ref name="ref208">https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/she-felt-unloved/#comment-22914</ref><ref>Roger Devlin said this somewhere too</ref> To the contrary, child-rearing could instead be more subsidized to reduce female selection based on income. Blackpillers respond that women would then turn to looks and status. State welfare advocates also tend to promote broad societal egalitarianism (Jante Law, e.g.), a sort of status leveller that is rumored to reduce intrasexual competition.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGn0lFlEV3A</ref> However, they do not usually put forth a plan on how to reduce [[sexual dimorphism]] in the face of globalization. And in 2019 they tend to favor open-borders and liberal internet policy, which can increase sexual dimorphism in the dating sphere.

'''Bluepill''': The [[bluepill]] is pretty much the complete opposite of the blackpill. Bluepillers tend to deny even biology determinism and propose self-help, personality-altering, individualism, [[neoliberalism]], and other self-actualization type philosophies. They also promote an overall positivity as a solution to inceldom.

'''Too much focus on fast [[life history]] women''': As little as 7% of women have used the most popular dating app, [[Tinder]], in 2020.<ref>https://www.statista.com/statistics/814691/share-of-us-internet-users-who-use-tinder-by-gender/</ref> Also data on [[demographics|sexual activity]] in the U.S. suggests that only a small minority of women is currently engaging in a promiscuous lifestyle. These are presumably particular women with a genetic disposition for a fast life history, i.e. they are promiscuous and do not invest much in the offspring (i.e. [[NAWALT]]). Only 33% of users who have dated through Tinder got a committed relationship out of it, the rest went for one-night stands or causal sexual relationships, suggesting the majority of Tinder users are indeed fast-life strategists,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Women_get_2-3_times_as_many_casual_sexual_relationships_from_Tinder_than_men</ref> with such women being possibly more superficial in their choices based on looks only. Women who truly enjoy [[rape]] are presumably also only a minority of fast-life strategists among women as the [[Jolly Heretic]] noted.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZMb5eij6dI</ref>