A: John refreshes his WeChat Moments three times a day, and he is always at the airport on business trips or working late in his hotel room. B: Such hustle porn is toxic, as if he’s trying to make the rest of us feel guilty about not working hard enough. Note: “Hustle” means “bustling activity” here. The metaphorical uses of “porn,” referring to “content that sensationally attracts attention,” include such phrases as “food porn” and “house porn.” The latest addition “hustle porn” was used by Reddit co-founder Alex Ohanian to criticize the glorification of overworking in the Silicon Valley startup community. “It is this idea that unless you are suffering, unless you are grinding, unless you are working every hour of every day and posting about it on Instagram, you’re not working hard enough,” he said. |