Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care (arstechnica.com)

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[-] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Aren't these guys misusing blackpilled? I thought it was specifically for suicide not just going NEET? Which like we should talk about but not through this corporate productivity-washed drivel.

[-] bier@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

If you also didn't know

"Not in Education, Employment or Training", its an acronym for people that don't go to school, don't work and are mot looking for work.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Also it's a backronym from the similar Japanese term which refers to a growing number of people there who have abandoned society and hole themselves up in their room literally never going outside.

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago

Wictionary says it went the other way from NEET to ニート(nīto): https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88

You're probably thinking of 引きこもり(hikikomori): https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BC%95%E3%81%8D%E3%81%93%E3%82%82%E3%82%8A#Japanese

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I always found "hikikomori" very amusing, because if it was slightly different, and written "hikikomero", it would literally mean "sweat closet" in Finnish (hiki = sweat, komero =closet) , which is a very apt concept for how lots of hikikomori live.