The artificial, gravelly, voice-lowering way to speak that makes you soundlike a ditz. The opposite of upspeak, but having the same negative effect on others.
If I hear Kim K say omg in that annoying vocal fryway she talks one more time...
1. When one draws out a word, usually in a deep, croaking, voice.
2. Is the lowest vocal register and is produced through a loose glottal closure which will permit air to bubble through slowly with a popping or rattling sound of a very low frequency.
3. How the Kardashians speak.
Girl 1: Oh my God, did you see what Kim was wearinggggg.......
Girl 2: Yeahhhhh.... She was totally cuuutttteeeee.......
Girl 1: I love the way she speaks. Like Vocal Fry is the bestttt.....
A purring or rasp in the lower register of the voice, particularly at the trailing end of a word or sentence. Vocal fry had been around for a long time without attracting criticism (go listen to Billie Holiday), until someone decided there were too many women's voices in the media, and needed some excuse to criticize them without appearing sexist. Now vocal fry is one of the most egregious of sins. Men can have vocal fry too, but will never be called out on it.
"I can barely stand to listen to that newscaster's vocal fry. How did she ever get hired?"
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.”