The art of downpitching pop songs, putting a couple of heavy synths on it, and mixing it with some heavy warm echoing effects to make it dramatically depressing but joyfull to listen to when you are a hipster.
Originally invented by Salem, a male prostitute that is using this technique on every song he makes. Thus calling it salemifying of songs.
Not only is Salem hated by evey reviewer for his easy but sophisticated approach, he also created a tiny cult of bedroom-producers who try to recreate his sound, but often fail miserably due to the lack of experience in gay prostitution.
how the critics respond to salemified tracks: "Salem is an example of a shit producer, we as reviewers are jelly that he is semi-populair with downpitching songs, everyone with half a brain can do this! . rating: 1 out of 10"
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.”