A long established competition, where otherwise active and able people do nothing but sit for as long as possible during working hours. Held in March each year, sitsmarch may one day become a national event. Many critics of the event suggest the event could lead to increased obesity, diabetes and someone uncannily beating others in the advent window challenge.
It’s quite similar to shitposting. It’s to search up random queries on Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. with no intent of a pattern. Usually done to protect one’s real search history by filling it with nonsense to divert a reader’s eyes from the true history.
Friend: Why have you searched up “Where do Elephants live?”, “What color is Helium?”, and “10 richest people” all within 30 seconds?
Me: To prevent people like you from trying to look at my history.
Friend: Why don’t you just delete your history?
Me: That makes people suspicious, so I just go shitsearching for a few minutes.
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.”