when you zone out in the middle of class. or when asked a question start sentence with several umʻs. another way u could be having a a kupono moment is if u have your finger in your mouth and staring at the wall.
"hey bro why spencer got his fingers in his mouth"
"oh hes having a kupono moment"
The study of Kupe and learning his methods and ways of being, in the hopes of one day achieving greatness even remotely close to his - you cannot be his equal as you will never be like him.
"Dude, I need a course in Kupology! Tryna be more like that guy."
"I can tell you haven't been studying Kupology lately!"
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?"