The act where by someone befriends you, they seem legit as you share a few friends with similar interest or are part of a similar community, then you notice the sniper picking up other friends of yours that have no connection to the sniper other than yourself.
I started getting asked who this person was asking to connect with a lot of my friends. I think they're friendsniping.
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.”