Pretty much means anything you want it to. Your teacher randomly gives you a pop quiz? You got memed on. You accidentally go left instead of right? Memed on. Originated solely because I started to say “get dabbed on” unironically, so I needed to think of something worse than that.
Dude, we are totally going to get memed on at the tournament this weekend.
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.”