Seriously? The entire phrase has a literal meaning of its own and you just searched if it exists in the Urban Dictionary? NO WAY!
Just kidding:
The meaning is literal. Further, this phrase is commonly used when a video shows something that you TOTALLY didn't expect from the subject within that video.
*A TikTok video with a text saying "showing my gay flat mate my boobs for the first time" with the girl actually showing her boobs to him*
One person in the comments section:
"I am very uncomfortable with the energy we have created in the studio today."
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.”