To perform a facial expression which is a hybrid of scowling and pouting, in order to generate sympathy for oneself, whilst also displaying disgust or distaste for a situation.
First created by Bao in the early 1990's, scouting became increasingly popularised after 2000, with many people adopting the expression to 'get your scout on' to be almost interchangeable with 'pity whore'.
1. "Oh man! I totally pwned Bao's ass at Starcraft the other day, he totally got his scout on!"
2. "Man my girlfriend was giving me such shit the other day."
"Dude, you should totally get your scout on."
3. "Check Bao out dude, he's totally scouting you."
"Well, he'll get no pity from me. Not with that sassy attitude."
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.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"
FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
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.”