The act of flirtatiously vocalizing strange noises, moans, and grunts along with one or more other parties in online voice chat space such as an online call, chatroom, or video game.
Chandra's day was ruined after he witnessed two people on the spectrum in a Discord server e-moaning at each other for minutes at a time.
the "depressing" moan of an emo kid. meant to inspire sympathy and/or express the depth of an emo kid's sadness. some find an emo kid's emoans strangely erotic.
Emo Kid: My mom hates me, my girlfriend Sally hates me, my best friend hates me, my dog hates me, I ha-
Normal Kid: Dude, STFU!
Emo Kid.....you're so mean.*emoans*
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.”