A pallid, white complexion gained from too many hours spent in front of a computer screen and little exposure to natural sunlight, similar to a programmer's tan.
The temporary pink hue and hot sensation on the skin of the face after spending too much time in front of an old school tube TV or computer monitor, caused by electrons escaping from the cathode ray tube impacting the face.
This is no longer a problem with modern LCD screens.
Back in 1999 I spent hours in-front of my computer playing Counter-Strike. I remember having a pretty decent CRT tan to show for it!
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.”