To have a central focus on the media and/or engaging with the media.
A concept which has come out of media studies theory.
Society's obsession with news on demand is making the public more mediacentric in their everyday lives.
21st Century western politics are increasingly mediacentric as politicians focus more on maintaining their image and reputation, rather than their policy.
When you and your girls are trying to get your freak on. And more than one homie tries to grind on yo shit. Then you can't decide which hung mofo to put yo shit on. You in a bind/mandicament.
Yo Leroy is stacked on my left. And Keeshawn is poppin on my rizzle. Which one do I pick. Fuck this Mandicament!
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.
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.”