![]() There they were, right on the landing page: a red pill and a blue one. ![]() Or at least it was until Tuesday, when a mysterious new landing page emerged on, teasing the trailer that dropped this morning. The phrase perhaps reached its nadir last year when Elon Musk sent a tweet encouraging his followers to “take the red pill,” to which then-presidential adviser Ivanka Trump responded “Taken!” Not one to let her work be misconstrued, Lilly Wachowski-who, along with her sister Lana, created the Matrix franchise-quickly responded “ fuck both of you.” It was one of the first, if not the first, times the movie’s creators expressed discontent at the way their creation had been co-opted by the darker corners of the internet. Most recently, the idea of “red-pilling” has become a metaphor for a certain kind of political awakening, an adoption of far-right, and often misogynistic, views. In the two decades since, the sociopolitical meaning of red pill vs. His narrative arc was changed, and a meme was born. In 1999, Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus presented this option to Keanu Reeves’ Neo, who gulped down the red one with only the slightest trepidation. ![]() ![]() Take the blue, remain in blissful ignorance. Swallow the red and it’s like eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil-suddenly all the universe’s dark secrets are revealed. The choice has always been, relatively speaking, simple: red pill or blue pill. ![]()
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