What Adam Aleksic has said about Manosphere
1 quote · 1 episode · Aug 21, 2026
Adam Aleksic, Linguist and TikTok creator featured in part two of the series, has been quoted on Manosphere once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on August 21, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
In his TED Talk, Aleksic said that the slang suffix "-pilled" derives by analogy from "black-pilled," a term tied to incel ideology.
“that word was formed through analogy with black-pilled, a term meaning convinced into incel ideology”
TED Radio Hour: How the creator economy is making you talk like the internet (Aug 21, 2026) · Listen from 49:43
Episodes
How the creator economy is making you talk like the internetTED Radio Hour · Aug 21, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with linguist and creator Adam Aleksic about how social media algorithms shape slang, influencer speech, identity and politics.
Others on Manosphere
- Nadège · 2 quotes
- Greg Adams · 1 quote
- Will Sommer · 1 quote
Adam Aleksic on other topics
- Social media algorithms · 5 quotes
- Internet slang · 3 quotes
- Unalive · 2 quotes
- Creator economy · 2 quotes
- Media theory · 1 quote
- Surveillance capitalism · 1 quote
- Cottagecore and aesthetic subcultures · 1 quote
- Influencer accents · 1 quote