An internet meme manifesting as an image macro showing a picture of a stereotypical nerd from a high school yearbook. The text that goes along usually tells of Bad Luck Brian's misdeeds. These are acts that he commits usually with good intentions but turning out to be bad through unforseen consequences or mistakes on Brian's part. Often he has defecated his pants while doing a courageous act quite unlike him.
MISDEEDS OF BAD LUCK BRIAN:
Tries to fart stealthily: Shits.
Escapes a burning building: Gets hit by a fire truck.
Wins raffle for the first time: Hunger Games.
Stops, drops, and rolls: Into another fire.
A day when nothing anyone says to you makes sense, nothing you say makes sense to anyone else (including yourself), following directions proves problematic and items which should be readily locatable cannot be found (or are found only after much searching on top of one's head).
I knew it was going to be a bad brain day when I finally located my keys in the drawer where I always keep them, my glasses on top of my head, and remembered only after entering the now empty garage that my wife had earlier mentioned that it was her yoga day, which meant she was taking the car.
An individual, usually of the Boomer generation, whose brain is clinically bad, resulting in irregular or bizarre behavior, often causing meaningful harm to those around them, especially in the workplace.
Dude, Karen’s such a bad brain that she literally didn’t know how to right-click. That paired with general cosmic confusion caused her to miss 47 Zoom meetings, because she can't figure out how to enter the meetings.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”