Relating to Xerxes son of Darius, both of them anciet Persian emperors.
Described by Herodotus, Xerxes himself was exactly as a tyrannical and nutty as an all powerful god-king ought to be and was prone to insane, disproportionate punishments and temper tantrums which included whipping the Hellespont for not obeying him.
Therefore the act of Xerxesing describes actions that are cruel, mad and over the top, usually performed in a fit of rage. Getting Xerxesed is far worse than usual punishment and is to be avoided at all costs.
'Oh god, did you see what happened? She absolutely Xerxesed him...I don't think he will ever be able to look at a baguette the same way again...'
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.”