The action of driving/walking around rural and urban areas on the lookout for older model vans. Once vans have been located a picture of the van is then taken and sent to your friends as trophies. Points for original vans, vans with that, "something extra" usually something extra creepy... what the french would say "je ne sais quoi". Also vans in compromising situations. IE, schoolyard, trailer park, church bake sale, etc.
Dude check out that gnarlyunicorn mural on this van! Solid vanspotting!
"I'm headed to the mountains this weekend, planning to do a lil' vanspotting." (narrator likely has a greasy mullet, smells of cubasa and has a pornstache)
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.”