-pilled
English
Etymology
Influenced by redpilled, blackpilled, etc. whose stems refer to the colour of the notional pill rather than their actual effects.
Suffix
-pilled
- (originally 4chan slang) Forming adjectives denoting dedication to or a heightened awareness of something.
- bread + -pilled → breadpilled (refering to The Conquest of Bread and anarcho-communism)
- [2022 June 3, Günseli Yalcinkaya, “Are you content? How the internet rewired our brains”, in Dazed, 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, 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, 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.