A type of brag or status signaling behavior whereby someone highlights something that is generally shameful or embarrassing.
Can include things like failures (a failure resume), childhood hardship, poverty, illness or imperfect physical conditions, etc.
This type of brag is generally shunned or punished by audiences generally UNLESS the braggart is very high in status - in which case its often rewarded.
Can include things like failures (a failure resume), childhood hardship, poverty, illness or imperfect physical conditions, etc.
This type of brag is generally shunned or punished by audiences generally UNLESS the braggart is very high in status - in which case its often rewarded.
All those prestigious Harvard students are now making stigma brags by posting their "failure resumes" on linked-in and getting lots of likes. If they were from Boston community college then that wouldn't get them any attention at all!
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Get the Sleep Bragging mug.When someone highlights how long they have been doing something (years playing a sport, years working in a company, years living in a neighborhood, years sober, overall age, etc). This is type of brag or showing off, highlighting the speaker's status based on the amount of time they've been around
There goes Thomas tenure bragging again about how he's been sober longer than anyone else at the party!
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Get the Tenure brag mug.When someone brags about how long they've been doing something - It is generally an age/time related brag ("I've been doing this since you were in diapers!") but can also be the number of times they've done it ("this is my 15th time at burning man!"), etc.
We made it about 15 minutes into the neighborhood meeting before Tom started tenure bragging about how he's lived on that street the longest!
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Get the Brag Tag mug.When someone brags about something he thinks is great but is actually lame and that fact that he's bragging about it makes it worse and makes you wonder what he does when he's alone.
Friend 1: Did you hear? Blake's been bragging he collected all the My Little Pony happy meal toys
Friend 2: Really? What a wet brag, I wonder what he does in his free time
Friend 1: Probably writes MLP fanfics
Friend 2: Really? What a wet brag, I wonder what he does in his free time
Friend 1: Probably writes MLP fanfics
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