People who's only personality trait is loving k-pop. They will call you a local if you disagree with their opinions. Tend to overuse skskskskskskskssksksks. Most likely a teenage girl. Will react to any important event on Twitter with some dumb caption like "well, if only they were a stan of (insert k-pop group or k-pop member here) this wouldn't have happened sksksksks" . Will use videos of k-pop member dancing for important events also. Don't tell them you don't really like k-pop or they will freak out on you.
You: I don't really enjoy k-pop Toxic K-Pop Stan: WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT K-POP!!! YOU ARE SUCH A LOCAL πππππ SKSKSKSKSKSKS I LOVE DRAMA SKSKSKSKSKS
You: All I said was I don't enjoy k-pop.
Me: Toxic K-Pop Stans are crazy.
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 βsigma maleβ 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.
βThatβs 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.β