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I'm old. What is a "sigma film bro"?
Sigma nuts, haHAA
Ah the stupid wolf shit. Thanks I was hung up on the film part. So "basic person more murdery than loner nerd"? Isn't that like the whole point of American Psycho?
The joke is leaning more on the OCD/narcissistic characteristics of Patrick Bateman than the murdery part. Like, having a ridiculously tedious self-care routine due to vanity (or self-consciousness, take your pick).
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Hell if I know. I've heard the term "Sigma Grindset" before, but it can't be tied to what I'm thinking of.
You'd have to be the worst workaholic ever to be applying Six Sigma/Agile stuff to your personal life.
It’s tied to the alpha/beta wolf bollocks. “Sigma” wolves exist outside of the normal order but are on par with “alphas”.
Basically, grifters wanted to expand their customer base to include lonely people lmao
You'd have to be the worst workaholic ever to be applying Six Sigma/Agile stuff to your personal life.
It feels weird to see Six Sigma implicitly paired with Agile instead of Lean. That said, Six Sigma is generally concerned with much higher quantities than are found in personal life, so yeah that would be nuts. Although, Agile and Lean do both have stuff that could be reasonably applied to personal life.
I mean, putting something on your shopping list when it's running low is basically just Kanban.
I think (hope) sigma grindset is a joke, in the way that it makes fun of entrepreneur influencers by being so out of line it can't possibly be true. I have however no proof to offer.
I remember it starting back on reddit in response to the whole "alpha" thing. The point was to goad the alphabros to ask "what's sigma" then hit them with "sigma nuts." They would get so pissed off, there was a whole subreddit for barbaric sigma memes mocking them and posting screenshots of sigma nuts.
Then they started taking it seriously, and the joke shifted to asking what they thought sigma meant, and the subreddit started posting screenshots of the insane replies.
Then, people started taking it TOO seriously, and everything went downhill.
Just like any good joke, someone's going to take it too literal. Sigma has been around so long that it's heavily in the category of, "satire that some didn't realize was satire and now it's unironically used".
upper middle class tiktok self-identified influencer in pastel workout set with a thirteen step skincare routine and a green juice
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Is a Guy - normal, regular, unusual
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Is a Girl - Reagan Era serial killer
The mind of the "Sigma" Male is fascinating.
If I saw a dude in pastel athleisure holding a green juice- maybe I'm giving away the population density 'round here- but I think I'd do a triple-take.
I'd check my calendar to make sure I wasn't in the 80s. But otherwise, idk, seems like a normal California summer to me.
Not sure I understand what you want to say here
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