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When I first entered blackpill spaces, blackpill was simply considered the next step of the redpill, an extention you found if you stayed in the manosphere long enough. Much like the redpill before it, it was never meant to be mainstream, but not for the reasons many think.
@6ft4 made a post on this topic recently about how normies muddle the message of esoteric ideas due to their low IQ.
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However, this doesnt paint the full story since people who rot on forums like these are generally not normie and ND (not talking about looksmax greycels), and yet the messaging and vibe of offtopic has changed to be more bluepilled in nature. Previously understood and explained concepts are questioned, eg. retarded threads on "bp isnt true, i saw an ugly dude with a gl foid" posted daily. Its even more aggravating when the most water threads get pages of replies that should be basic understanding.
Imo the reason this happens is because a lot of new blackpillers are young and find the ideas through tiktok and instagram, instead of real life experience. Back in the day anyone who found the manosphere had usually gone through one or many traumatising experiences with women, including being rejected multiple times, being cheated on, being divorce raped and so on. This meant that the average age was not only older, the concepts were understood more intrinsically because it was backed by experience. If you were an oofy doofy who found his becky girlfriend of 3 years cheating on you with chad, you would never question how normies are in relationship with gl girls, because at one point YOU were that normie and you know how it turns out.
This is a common occurrence that happens in philosophy as well, lots of new readers pickup their favourite philosopher's most prized book and then not understand anything, dropping the subject as schizo ramblings. However, that is not the correct way to read such works since a lot of philosophy is responding to other philosophers. The most popular example i can think of is Nietzche, which every edgy 20 something year old picks up to seem well read. However, a lot of Neitzche's work is responding to Schopenhauer, who most people dont read. Thus he's one of the most misunderstood writers and is mischaracterised as a Nihilist when he explicitly writes *against* nihilism. Neitzche is the whitepill to Schopenhauer's blackpill.
To even understand Schopenhauer however, a background understanding of Kant is required, which again needs the knowledge of rationalist and empericist debates before him, and so on.
Coming back, to be blackpilled you had to go through years of constant rejection and disillusionment before you agreed with its ideas. This usually meant finding TheRedPill and PUA, which often even worked for the slightly aspie failed normies that lurk and rot on the forum these days. People make fun of Redpill now, but its actually a very theoretically dense exposition of human nature and intergender dynamics. To be blackpilled meant you already understood these concepts, and then built on TOP of it. The progress of Bluepill -> PUA -> Redpill -> Blackpill has been severed however, and the mainstreaming of both redpill and blackpill have contributed to this.
Nobody reads hundereds of pages of The Manipulated Man or The Rational Male anymore, not even modern day redpillers, which back in the day were mandatory reading before you could even contribute to TRP. Jokers like Hamza and Andrew Tate are to blame for this. The truth is, lookism simply doesn't explain the full extent of female nature, which is what the blackpill has been reduced to at this point. The other manosphere concepts are essential to gain a holistic understanding, but unfortunately this knowledge has been lost.
Many failed normies here would unironically benefit from reading the TRP sidebar and never even finding out about the blackpill in the first place. Blackpill was and should've been limited to autistic incels or a small subgroup of ugly men who ascended due to genetics or looksmaxxing, and NOT the average slightly weird teenager. This shit is true, but only if you understand and accept it fully, which most here aren't really gonna do. Thus, the conversation has changed and bp has become misunderstood.
@6ft4 made a post on this topic recently about how normies muddle the message of esoteric ideas due to their low IQ.

The downside of the "blackpill" and right wing talking points going mainstream on social media is how low IQ takes start muddying the message
I posted about this before but in Ireland "tall dark and handsome" means a tall irish guy who isn't a ginger or nerdic aka the default irish guy archetype of dark hair. In a street interview vid on instagram some irish foids were asked their type and they said "tall dark and handsome" and the...
However, this doesnt paint the full story since people who rot on forums like these are generally not normie and ND (not talking about looksmax greycels), and yet the messaging and vibe of offtopic has changed to be more bluepilled in nature. Previously understood and explained concepts are questioned, eg. retarded threads on "bp isnt true, i saw an ugly dude with a gl foid" posted daily. Its even more aggravating when the most water threads get pages of replies that should be basic understanding.
Imo the reason this happens is because a lot of new blackpillers are young and find the ideas through tiktok and instagram, instead of real life experience. Back in the day anyone who found the manosphere had usually gone through one or many traumatising experiences with women, including being rejected multiple times, being cheated on, being divorce raped and so on. This meant that the average age was not only older, the concepts were understood more intrinsically because it was backed by experience. If you were an oofy doofy who found his becky girlfriend of 3 years cheating on you with chad, you would never question how normies are in relationship with gl girls, because at one point YOU were that normie and you know how it turns out.
This is a common occurrence that happens in philosophy as well, lots of new readers pickup their favourite philosopher's most prized book and then not understand anything, dropping the subject as schizo ramblings. However, that is not the correct way to read such works since a lot of philosophy is responding to other philosophers. The most popular example i can think of is Nietzche, which every edgy 20 something year old picks up to seem well read. However, a lot of Neitzche's work is responding to Schopenhauer, who most people dont read. Thus he's one of the most misunderstood writers and is mischaracterised as a Nihilist when he explicitly writes *against* nihilism. Neitzche is the whitepill to Schopenhauer's blackpill.
To even understand Schopenhauer however, a background understanding of Kant is required, which again needs the knowledge of rationalist and empericist debates before him, and so on.
Coming back, to be blackpilled you had to go through years of constant rejection and disillusionment before you agreed with its ideas. This usually meant finding TheRedPill and PUA, which often even worked for the slightly aspie failed normies that lurk and rot on the forum these days. People make fun of Redpill now, but its actually a very theoretically dense exposition of human nature and intergender dynamics. To be blackpilled meant you already understood these concepts, and then built on TOP of it. The progress of Bluepill -> PUA -> Redpill -> Blackpill has been severed however, and the mainstreaming of both redpill and blackpill have contributed to this.
Nobody reads hundereds of pages of The Manipulated Man or The Rational Male anymore, not even modern day redpillers, which back in the day were mandatory reading before you could even contribute to TRP. Jokers like Hamza and Andrew Tate are to blame for this. The truth is, lookism simply doesn't explain the full extent of female nature, which is what the blackpill has been reduced to at this point. The other manosphere concepts are essential to gain a holistic understanding, but unfortunately this knowledge has been lost.
Many failed normies here would unironically benefit from reading the TRP sidebar and never even finding out about the blackpill in the first place. Blackpill was and should've been limited to autistic incels or a small subgroup of ugly men who ascended due to genetics or looksmaxxing, and NOT the average slightly weird teenager. This shit is true, but only if you understand and accept it fully, which most here aren't really gonna do. Thus, the conversation has changed and bp has become misunderstood.