This the peak, comedown, but don't be down around me
Since a jit, I been different but no one could see
Adderall since 3rd grade, why mama do that to me?
Why she do that to me?
Bad kid couldn't sit still, focused on the screen
I was hungry couldn't eat a meal, all my friends were phony
I was so damn lonely
So I had to look cool
Do that to me, why she do that me?

The enlightened state of having heroically escaped the Matrix by replacing one set of unquestioned internet dogmas with another, slightly edgier set of unquestioned internet dogmas. Achieved primarily by watching 47-minute YouTube compilations titled “They Don’t Want You To Know This” while feeling profound superiority over people who still believe things they read before 2015. Side effects include referring to basic social norms as “bluepill programming,” developing an allergy to commas, and believing you are now immune to propaganda because you only consume propaganda that calls itself anti-propaganda.

The transcendent quality of not caring what anyone thinks—except for the several thousand anonymous accounts in your replies whose approval you quietly crave. A person is truly based when they have reached such a pinnacle of indifference that they post the exact same take 17 days in a row and still call it “speaking truth to power.” The term is most commonly applied to anyone who says something rude on the internet and then mutes notifications. Peak basedness is achieved the moment you type “touch grass” while having 47 browser tabs open about 19th-century phrenology charts that prove your bloodline is 3% Viking warlord.

Redpilled and based (phrase)
The sacred combination achieved when someone simultaneously Knows The Truth™ and doesn’t care if you know it too—except they very obviously do care, which is why they just spent 45 minutes ratioing a random 19-year-old who said “be nice to people.” It is the philosophical equivalent of screaming “I’M NOT MAD” while veins visibly pulse in your forehead. The ultimate flex: to be so enlightened that you’ve transcended the need for human connection… while still doom-posting at 3:47 a.m. about how everyone else is a midwit NPC.