(n.) A form of turrets in which an individual can't help but share every single thought that enters their head in the form of a facebook status. Common in left wingliberals, right wing conservatives, overly fanatic sports fans, and girls who "luv their gurlz." Often spelled in all caps.
"Dude, Drew's posted 4 facebook stati in the past ten minutes. Listen to them:
'Obama is my savior'
'I miss the knicks so much it hurts'
'If I had a threesome with Jose Reyes and Obama I would have to immediately kill myself afterwards because the rest of life would suck in comparison'
'OCCUPY WALL STREET'"
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.”