People who proudly boast about how they never spend a dime on Epic Games, in their store, but has hundreds of free games to play with no intent to play them. Like, I don’t know who is supposed to be impressed by that. Not to mention, that’s not really a good method of protesting if you’re someone who hates Epic Games.
You’re still spending the time and effort, not to mention even bothering to have an account with them to begin with, to redeem free games that they give away. Who are you seriously trying to impress or what message are you trying to convey? Because all I see are contradictions and ironies.
Branded anything!
The “see, I can afford branded stuff” flex of being better because having money for it right alongside the “easier to just walk around with ‘I’m stupid’ tatooed on my forehead” because of being dumb enough to spend 5x more money just for a label.
It’s maybe the biggest poor/low-middle-class person’s “look, I have money” flex there is.
(It’s even more hilarious when one actually knows people from Old Money: those with lots of money and who were born into it actually wear simple but high quality stuff with no visible labels, whilst the ones trying to flaunt their wealth are either not wealthy at all or are Nouveau Riche and hence feel to need to flaunt their wealth whilst not being experienced enough at having lots of money to use it the way old wealth does)