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The lone wolf who insists he's not in the hierarchy, while ranking himself first.
means Internet slang for a self-styled 'independent' alpha-male archetype — a guy who claims to be above the whole social ranking game, which is itself a way of playing it.
from Sigma is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, long used in math and science for sums and standard deviations. In the 2010s, online 'alpha/beta' hierarchy slang (itself a loose, inaccurate borrowing from old wolf-pack behavior studies) needed a label for the guy who opts out of the hierarchy entirely — so meme culture grabbed another Greek letter and declared 'sigma male' a rank outside the ranking, a status that quietly functions as a new status symbol.
- origin
- Brainrot mutation of alpha male memes
- actual meaning
- Greek letter, means sum in math
- irony
- Claims no competition, constantly competing
- grindset
- Mostly posting about grinding, not grinding