Falling into an existential fog through the music of The National or a comparable sad dad band. This condition mainly impacts aged male hipsters, causing them to wander around like an arthouse film protagonist in a self-induced catatonic state. The name is derived from the song "Pink Rabbit", which has been shown to potently produce this effect, but it can also be triggered by many songs from Bon Iver, War on Drugs, or any given moment of a Sufjan Stevens track.
The last time I saw Alan he was Pink Rabbiting in front of The Ottobar pretending he couldn't hear us over the sound of his own deep thoughts.
churchhurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the churchhurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
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.”