Trey: "Every time you buy and eat a half chicken from the grocery store, you're low key sharing a meal with a stranger."
Rochelle: "Wow man, that's wismic.
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Jorge: "They're making us read some book called "1984". I'll probably just copy the answers off my gf."
Ramon: "Nah, you should check it out bro. It's actually a wismic commentary on the nature of surveillance and the boundaries of government overreach exploring the line between public and private matters."
A portmanteau of "woke" and "gimmickry"--woke gimmickry. Trying to sell or enhance the value of something by adding an element of wokeness.
A production of the venerable musical 1776 with a cast composed entirely of female and sundry gender nonconforming actors is a perfect example of wimmickry in the arts.
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.”