On the red/blue pill dichotomy (and on all those other made up pills)

The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are a metaphor representing the choice between:

• Knowledge, freedom, and the brutal truths of reality (red pill)
• Security, happiness and the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill)

The terms are derived from the 1999 film The Matrix. In the film, the main character Neo is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill by rebel leader Morpheus. The red pill would free him from the enslaving control of the machine-generated dream world and allow him to escape into the real world, but living the "truth of reality" is harsher and more difficult. On the other hand, the blue pill would lead him back to stay in the comfortable simulated reality of the Matrix.

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: All I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more." -Morpheus, The Matrix (1999)

Lately I've come across this trend of people coming up with these redundant different colored metaphorical pills online. People talk about "Black pills", "White pills", "Pink pills" etc.. Probably to spice things up, or to come up with something new and trendy to feel special or something... Who knows..

There are only red and blue pills. Taking the metaphorical pill is about consciously choosing to either face the truth, or to stay ignorant; Opening your eyes or keeping them shut; Accept the reality or deny it (which still doesn't change how things really are). There is no middle ground, no different colors beyond those two: Anything that isn't the truth, is a lie by default. Using those redundant different pills beyond the aforementioned red and blue just obfuscates the core meaning of the dichotomy.

One excuse I've heard goes as following:
"White pill" is the same concept as "X gives me hope", and stands as a foil to the black pill, which is hopelessness in the face of a globalist victory one sees as inevitable.

Hope is something you have, when you don't have the knowledge of how things are, i.e. the truth, which is what the red pill stands for. Hope (the counterpart of despair) is just ignorance that feels good. Hoping is an act of willingly giving up on the pursue of knowledge. Thus taking the "white pill" is same as taking the "blue pill." 

Lose hope, gain knowledge.