Interestingly enough, I said that about myself a while back (likening myself to Deku from My Hero Academia)
Hym "And even MORE interestingly enough, all of the new powers that Deku has in the later seasons... Are powers that I said I use! Like multi-shadow tendrils (black whip), storing energy (Fajin), gear shift. And even the main character's mentor (Knuckleduster) from My Hero Vigilantes might also be based on me. His whole deal is... Well... How do I describe it... You know what it's like when you're a genius and something happens and now you have an increasing amount of executive disfunction? That's Knuckleduster. He has a perk called Overclock that allowed him to think and react super fast and then it gets stolen by a villain and now he just runs the fade on villains without his powers. But I think that's all because of the muttering to myself remark that I made! I'm a ton of characters now."
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.
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.”