A person who tries to portray themselves as a gangster online on sites such as Myspace, sconex, and blackplanet. These people are normally the very opposite of gangster when met face to face.
"He was a b*tch when we tried to confront him. But on his MySpace page he said he was ______ (enter gang). Man he's definetly a computer gangster.
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.”