Ivan Mirov came to America to reinvent himself.He didn't expect to become a witness to its unraveling.At twenty-one, Ivan leaves Moscow chasing the American dream he saw online-freedom, creativity, and the chance to become someone new. Instead, he finds himself working twelve-hour shifts in a freezing fish factory, surrounded by burnout, wage theft, and a city addicted to distraction.Inside this industrial purgatory, Ivan meets a cast of equally disillusioned outsiders: a conspiracy-addled tech dropout, an economist studying inequality from the inside, a cynical immigrant who's already surrendered-and Saffron, a brilliant, damaged anarchist who insists the system is collapsing.What begins as curiosity becomes obsession when Ivan's footage of factory life accidentally goes viral, turning him into a symbol of outrage he never meant to represent. Suddenly, he is being watched, praised, attacked, and recruited by people who don't care who he is-only what he can do for their movement.As surveillance tightens and violence escalates, Ivan must decide whether to join the revolution, flee the country, or reject the entire narrative others keep forcing onto him.Darkly funny, unsettling, and fiercely honest, "I Threw Up the Red Pill" is a contemporary satire about the myths we chase, the ideologies we swallow, and what happens when the dream you're sold becomes the nightmare you can't wake up from.