A term for the hippie folk of the unincorporated community of Canyon, CA. Critters are known for their love of growing weed, driving around in huge trucks, shooting out signs along the road, and drinking and driving late in the night. Critters are distrustful of outsiders, and have been known to harass or even attack outsiders, aka people from Moraga, Oakland, or Hayward. Canyon Critters are mostly harmless, however, and enjoy smoking copious amounts of homegrown marijuana with their elevendogs.
"Last night some faggot in a truck tried to make me and my friends pick up trash when we were smoking in Canyon" -person one
"Goddamn Canyon Critters" -Person two
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.”