the type of smile that is shaped like a frown but is obviously a smile. shown as a curling in the lips while over exaggerating a frown. either used as a visual, "touche" or an expression of contempt. sometimes accentuated with a raised eyebrow and/or a slight elevation to one side of the mouth or the other.
fryle
... and i could totally tell she wrecked her car just to impress me.
well what did you do next brah?
i totally flashed her a rowdy frown smile man what else?\
RAD!
Someone who frown-smiles. They either do so because 1) they are not confident enough to smile, or 2) they want to create the impression of modesty and ingenuousness. This latter reason is usually a means to a particular end, for instance frown smiling in order to convince an audience of a statement or belief.
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.”