When something is both tough and difficult. It implies that something is such a problem that it is both physically and mentally draining. However, it can be used in the humorous sense that something isn't tough or difficult but is tedious specifically for that person stating it.
Luke: "This year sucked man."
Adam: "Yeah man, having to move houses and being laid off. That's intense."
Luke: "Yup, it was pretty toughicult."
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.”