Vegan Black Metal Chef is an up-and-coming YouTube celeb. The creator of the videos dresses in a manner similar to Gene Simmons of KISS, with white face paint and black streaks around his eyes, and wears a black suit of armor. Clearly, he's also influenced by such real-life black metal bands as Mayhem, Burzum, and Dark Throne. Thus far, he has only posted two videos ("Pad Thai" and "Easy Meal Ideas of the Ages"), yet the first video alone has received over 1 million views and spawned imitators. He has also been referenced on quite a few food-related blogs. And finally, in true black metal style, the videos/songs are at least 12-15 minutes long!
Vegan Black MetalChef (making Pad Thai): FORM THE TRIANGLES INTO THE SYMBOL OF THE ANCIENTS ON THE PLATE!
My girl wanted me to cook for her one night, but she kept telling me what I was doing wrong and changing things around to make it "better." She's such a back-burnerchef!
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.
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.”