To ask for the funniest stealth boasts you've seen on social media

[GunpowderGelatine]

My real life recent examples:

"About to hang up our Christmas cards onto the wall and gutted to find our stapler is crap, doesn't staple anything, argh!"

Stealth boast translation: look how popular we are

"I'm so sick of getting asked for ID, I just want to buy my gin without ratching for my drivers license, I'm 35 and a mother of three for goodness sake"

Stealth blast translation: I'm soooo young looking

"Wow Holly got a Nintendo Switch for Christmas! 😱😁"

Stealth boast translation: we got her the Nintendo Switch, so we aren't thanking anyone but just want to show you all what good parents we are

Disclaimer: this thread is lighthearted (not everyone finds this obvious!)

“I’m not looking forward to climbing these stairs tonight after my 10k run today”. So many underlying boasts in that one.

why is that a stealth boast?
If her friends are all close to her, everybody knows her house, so the stair case is not really a discovery. If all her friends have the same kind of house, it's even less of a boast. The only ones to se it as a stealth boast are the ones with less money!

10k is the same, if all your friends are as fit and run the same amount routinely, or do a lot more - marathon, ultra marathon, triathlon, they won't see that a stealth boast either.

The judgement tells you a lot about the moaners, not so much about who posted the pic.

How jealous can we all be!!!!
What if they only have designer stuff and they don't think it's big deal it's showing in a photo?
The Christmas photo with audio in background just means their parking so small, like they almost park in their living room.
How jealous can one be to actually think passing any exam, or running a marathon is a boast instead of jubilation?
Showing off about giving to homeless is completely crass.
Put in a box of lucky them.
But I am also very lucky I have family who love me and are well and I would not trade that for a Rolls Royce or a designer 'insert' or that 'holiday to insert'.

Doh! @wait68, it's not jealousy, it's feeling embarrassed for people who don't realise how transparent their behaviour is. I like some of the people in real life and wish they were more aware. Go back and read the thread.

So odd that many posters are interpreting mockery of stealth boasts as 'jealousy'. I've laughed my arse off at some of the examples, particularly pertaining to fancy cars and designer accessories, but do you know what, I do not have a single tiny ounce of jealousy towards those people. I don't value those kinds of items at all, genuinely wouldn't want one. Massive waste of money imo. I still think those stealth boasting about their Merc are proper dicks tho.

the difference between you and me, apart from the fact that my friends are not show-off anyway, is that I probably wouldn't even notice the Mercedes badge or the label on the bag, so I wouldn't translate every photo as a stealth boast.

You have to be a certain kind of people to be friend with these Wag-types you don't like, and to find spiteful thing to say about tiny details. I see a Christmas tree, you will zoom the photo to comment over he tiniest bauble, the gift tag and the room where the tree is.

It's very funny, but I am not sure you realise where the joke really is.

I mean I know social media is destroying society but didn’t realise quite so many people have already succumbed #Idontunderstandstealthboasting #narcissismisgreat 🤦🏼‍♀️

I kind of enjoy laughing at this humble bragging thing

I think it’s the WAY or the style things are written or portrayed, not actually the content

If someone posts their lovely handbag with a caption ‘love my new bag’ then that’s fine isn’t it

But a photo of the new bag saying ‘not sure I can fit this new bag into my bag closet as it’s totally full of Mulberry’s!’ Is A BRAG

have attached some examples for those who don’t get it

I still don’t think they will get it though 🤣

I like these types. No one spent any time arranging this did they

"Welcome Xxxx to the family. #blessed"

when she gave away a different dog just a few weeks ago....

I don't think you get that some of us don't have friends who behave that way , stay away from the rich kids of instagram and others , and are genuinely happy for the good fortune of their friends

I vaguely follow someone who has now had 5 pets, all given away. She starts off boasting and posting at how cute they are then starts asking for advice when things go wrong and lets her followers talk her into rehoming it. I think this is to feel less guilty. Then she starts posting about her DC really missing the pet and maybe about replacing it. And so forth. It’s like a car crash

@GenerationSnowflake

Yeah I posted some extreme examples but I think it’s fair to say this has begun to creep into older generations who pick up the bad habits. Also once you have teens you notice their friends begin to do it too and it grates on you

@GenerationSnowflake STILL doesn't get what stealth boasting is, even after 19 pages of examples. Either that, or snowflake IS the type of stealth boaster we all know and love.

the difference between you and me, apart from the fact that my friends are not show-off anyway, is that I probably wouldn't even notice the Mercedes badge or the label on the bag, so I wouldn't translate every photo as a stealth boast

A stealth boaster would MAKE SURE you saw the Mercedes badge. They're not subtle, which is one of the many reasons we find them amusing.

No @PookieDo, that photo was not arranged in any way whatsoever

Why did she #memorialday ?

Huggybear16
do you always feel the need to be so rude?
If you had read and understood my posts properly, you will have seen that I do know what they are, thanks, but I don't follow that kind of people, my friends are not like that and most of the examples on this thread are not stealth boast but posters raging with jealousy about a perfectly innocent post from someone better off than they are.

not all of us are insecure haters

Its only funny when you know what peoples life is really like. Or you can play SB bingo whenever they post.

How jealous can we all be!!!!
Not about jealousy for the millionth time on this thread. But sure, having an opinion must be jealousy. Anyone who thinks carefully positioned items for the purpose of Instagram must be secretly frothing with jealousy.
What if they only have designer stuff and they don't think it's big deal it's showing in a photo?
It's not a big deal to have designer items. Having designer items isn't a steal boast. A stealth boast is seeming to write a post about one thing when the emphasis is clearly on 'look at all this other stuff'.

Having a photo with friends when you're carrying a designer bag isn't a stealth boast.
Taking a photo of a wardrobe overflowing with designer items with a caption about how hard it is to find good wardrobe storage these days is a stealth boast because it's not about wardrobe space, it's about showing off lots of designer possessions.
The difference is fairly obvious.
The Christmas photo with audio in background just means their parking so small, like they almost park in their living room.
Again.
Owning an Audi doesn't make something a stealth boast. Having a photo with an Audi in doesn't make it a stealth boast.
Posting about how difficult it is these days to fit cars on your drive with a photo of a standard 1 car drive and 2 highly priced cars is a stealth boast because it's not about parking, it's about showing off your cars.

How jealous can one be to actually think passing any exam, or running a marathon is a boast instead of jubilation?
People have repeatedly said that sharing positive news is NOT a stealth boast.

The more the thread goes on, the more in starting to think those claiming jealousy or that stealth boasting isn't a thing probably do it and so take any criticism or mockery of ridiculous online posts as further proof the worls must be jealous of them.

People have repeatedly said that sharing positive news is NOT a stealth boast.

no they haven't, most of the examples were about positive news or random things from somebody's perfectly ordinary life

A photo of Eugenie taken in her grand-mother living room? Stealth Boast or ordinary scene? It might look grand for us, but that's where she has been raised. You can interpret it either way.

@GenerationSnowflake I have read and understood your posts. I stand by what I wrote and I really wasn't being rude.

I said that you either (1)didn't understand stealth boasts or (2)that you were guilty of stealth boasting.

On this thread alone, you have repeatedly posted along the lines of: "some of us are happy to see lovely photos of our friends" showing that (1) you don't understand stealth boasts.

Your other posts on this thread suggest that it may be (2) you are guilty if stealth boasts. For example, you likened having a cleaner to having running water and central heating.

Huggybear16
I agree. There is a deliberate attempt to present stealth boasting as nothing more than 'people just sharing and you all just be jealous of anyone'.

The difference is obvious to almost anyone other than snowflake. But to humour them and assume they still can't see the difference...
DH and I are active people and early risers. On boxing day we went for a quick bike ride as our house guests are late risers. We took a photo of the view part way round. Sharing activities like that is common with our friends. This is just a normal part of our life.

Option 1 for social media - Lovely bike ride to blow the cobwebs away. (Plus photo of the view)

Option 2 for social media - It's never too early to start burning off those Christmas excesses. DH and I are starting as we mean to go on. Time to banish the Christmas flab. (Plus photos of the view)

The difference is obvious. 1 is sharing soemthing we did for fun. 2 is full of stealth boasting superiority as in obviously I'm slim but I want you to tell me I'm so gorgeous and be amazed by how virtuous I am exercising when I know most of you will be in your pyjamas

One of the really odd things I've noticed recently is people using "asking for recommendations" when really I suspect is a kind of positioning like this -
Best place to stay in the Maldives?
Favourite Michelin starred restaurant which isn't Hestons?
Chanel or Hermes bag? Or both?

I replied to one recently that I thought was completely genuine and was surprised the Asker didn't follow it up with me. Then I realised she had made the question up to stealth boast...

They are probably the same people who think others don’t like them & don’t have many friends because people are jealous of their looks/success/intelligence.

Bye Felicia!

Exactly @MaisyPops, I would actually love to see photos of your house and view along with the posts you have suggested. If you'd thrown the photos in as part of a stealth boast, I'd either roll my eyes or laugh.

However, in the broken nail in the Mercedes example, instead of laughing or being jealous, we should be acknowledging the real feelings behind the post.

You see, @GenerationSnowflake wouldn't even notice the Mercedes logo. She would understand that her friend was genuinely devastated that she'd broken a nail and that she had to share a photo straight away to gather appropriate support before she could even contemplate stepping out of the car. Or maybe she doesn't notice the Merc logo because it's such a normal thing to her, such as having running water, central heating and......a cleaner.