Using the freeStarbucks coffee house wireless internet access without going inside the store to order coffee.
I drove my car to Starbucks, pulled into a parking spot up front, kept the motor running, whipped out my laptop and did some starjacking. I emailed all my friends for free!
To post on social media first someone else's sad news or story or announce someone else's bad news before they have had chance to post or were waiting a bit because it was still to painful or a secret. To hi-jack someone else's bad news. To hi-jack sadfishing. To gain sympathy and likes yourself, taking sympathy and responses away from the person who it actually happened to.
e.g. "John was going to tell everyone that he had a tumour but his mate Paul sadjacked him by posting about it first" or "I heard my mate's friend had died and sadjacked him by posting the news before him" or "some **** is sadjacking my cat's death on fb"
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.”