Deepliking is liking pictures or posts on social media (like Facebook or Instagram) that have been made several years ago which you didn't like at the time of posting, but have stumbled across recently and liked. Social media has stabilized in it's platforms, compared to the early days. Therefore users can now browse several years of friend's pictures or posts. For longfriends deepliking is akin to reminiscing the old days when you were younger and having fun together. For new acquaintances deepliking is showing an interest, which can be perceived positively, but also negatively (as in social media stalking).
"Hey dude, have you been deepliking pictures of our trip to Brazil fiveyears ago?!"
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.”