*In relation to the Japanese Visual Kei movement*
A decagram is a ten-pointed star similar to a pentagram. It can be drawn with one simultnious line, like a pentagram, or with two inter-locking pentagons.
It is the OFFICIAL symbol of the band Moi Dix Mois lead by guitarist Mana (who is something of a legend in the Visual Kei world)
'Dix' meaning 'ten' in french is where the band's theme of Ten comes from. Fans say Dix in conversation about the band and some will bear pendents of the decagram.
A lyric in a song by Moi Dix Mois is - "The decagram, our symbol of pride, willshow us the way to the sacred world,"
Similar to hexagram, or pentagram, only with ten sides. Many bands use this symbol. Some good, some bad.
Slipknot, a shitty nu-metal band, often uses this logo, and so many believe that it is their trademarked symbol.
"dude, the knot are SO tight! I'm getting their decagram tattooed on my arm!" "you do realize that isn't Slipknot's 'symbol', don't you?" "shut up, the knot are omnipotent!" "lol, trendwhore"
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.”