It is a German term meaning "low-earner". It basically describes a person that has a usually simple job that does not pay well or is basically poor. Since around 2019 the term has been developed into an insult towards people who don't have money. You may use it towards a person because of a specific situation, in which a person shows behavior of having a low income, or you use it to describe one's general life situation. It is usually meant in a funny way but may also deeply insult a person.
*two friends want to buy beer: Friend 1: "I don't have enough money on me right now so I will only buy the cheap brand like Karlskrone." Friend 2: "Hahah Geringverdiener!"
*guy with a Porsche is annoyed by a cyclist in front of him: Guy: (honking and overtaking him): "out of the way Geringverdiener"
Geringverdiener is a German word, which main meaning is a person, who doesn’t have a lot of money. After a News Broadcast (Tagesschau) made a social media post about Germanys Youth Word 2021 which went viral, it basically became a meme.
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.”