A combination of the words "emo" and "elitist"; it describes one who listens to emo music and regards any bands that they don't like as "trash". They tend to be indie snobs and they look down on those who don't share their taste in music
That kid is such an emolitist. He thinks that they're all posers because they didn't likethe Used until after they became popular, which at point he stopped liking the Used. Now if anyone he knows doesn't like Small Brown Bike or Something Corporate, he won't even talk to them in public.
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.”