drowning in the baby pool

To spend time wallowing in misery over trivial, materialistic, and superficial matters. The baby pool is never deep.

Casandra: What's wrong with Belinda? I texted her and she sent back all tearful emoji's.
Carrie: She saw that Brenda posted about her new finery shoes and that Brenda got more likes than she did when she posted about her new sandals.
Cassandra: So she's drowning in the baby pool again? I should have known. Just for that I'm liking Brenda's shoes!!!

drowning in the baby pool by von groovy June 20, 2017

drowning in pools 

The act of losing extremely early in a tournament, almost always in the group stage. Commonly used as a term in competitive Super Smash Brothers

Guy 1: How did you do at EVO?
Guy 2: Ugh, I ended up drowning in pools man.

drowning in pools by Am3ricanSniper December 8, 2020