Participation Trophies

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Description

This artifact is Mitchell Peeble's message to older generations about the idea of "participation trophies."

The submitter provided the following about the artifact’s history:
I found this screenshot of a status update on Facebook back in 2016. The original poster is Mitchell Peebles. The post calls out the older folks who complain about participation awards for being the generation that decided to give them out to Gen X/Millennials to begin with. This is a digital artifact.

Creator

Mitchell Peebles

Source

Michael West

Publisher

Facebook

Language

English

Coverage

2000-2024

Social Media Post and Meme Item Type Metadata

Genre

Facebook post

Material

digital

Circulation

Person to Person (Digital)

Linguistic Text

Spoiler alert, "participation trophies" weren't given to my generation because young people couldn't deal with losing. They were given out to appease the parents of child players who are not able to accept their child is the next Michael Jordan or Derek Jeter. My generation is not the participation trophy generation. Yours is.

Visual Text

A photo of the creator with another person in the top left corner of the artifact. One of the faces are close to the camera and the other is further away.

Given Text

Wednesday at 10:37 AM

Audience

Facebook friends

Uploaded

04/27/18

Files

particip trophies.jpg

Citation

Mitchell Peebles, “Participation Trophies,” Museum of Everyday Writing, accessed April 28, 2024, https://museumofeverydaywriting.omeka.net/items/show/808.

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