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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They were hating on us Gen Xers while we were still in grade school. Giving us shit for the participation ribbons, they imagined, designed, bought, and handed out to us

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

They invented participation ribbons and trophies, I'm almost convinced, just so they could give them to us millenials and you Xers on field day and immediately shit on us for involuntarily receiving them in fucking kindergarten as though we didn't hate how transparently bullshit they were. I destroyed mine in creative, almost ceremonial ways.

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Let's normalise calling boomers the participation trophy generation