a marissa grace espinoza is someone who is quirky and wild, and a person you can always get along with. they often like horses and choose unfortunate sports teams to play on. often times you can find them riding a unicycle and chewing on, but not eating, unicorn hair. don’t ask where they got it, they will always become infuriated. a marissa grace espinoza is typically a part of the jake paul fan base, and her favorite song is often “calling all the monsters” by china anne mcclain.
friend one: holy weekend, who is that gross girl riding a unicycle listening to disney channel original music chewing on unicorn hair?
friend two: oh i know her, she’s a marissa grace espinoza.
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.”