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Participation trophies weren't a big thing for GenX or Millennials, according to Google's N-gram Viewer, showing up instead for Boomers and Zoomers (and the Sil
by saalweachter 5y ago
Participation trophies weren't a big thing for GenX or Millennials, according to Google's N-gram Viewer, showing up instead for Boomers and Zoomers (and the Silent Generation).
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=participation+trophy&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cparticipation%20trophy%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cparticipation%20trophy%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=participation+...
- Kluny 5y agoDid OP mention their age? I assumed, without any other info to go with, that they're about the same age as me - 30's and millennial. And my cohort got participation medals for every goddam thing you could think of. Looking at the 6th place ribbon winner of the third grade spoon race right here. Not to pick nits or anything!