Stigma Brag

A type of brag or status signaling behavior whereby someone highlights something that is generally shameful or embarrassing.

Can include things like failures (a failure resume), childhood hardship, poverty, illness or imperfect physical conditions, etc.

This type of brag is generally shunned or punished by audiences generally UNLESS the braggart is very high in status - in which case its often rewarded.

All those prestigious Harvard students are now making stigma brags by posting their "failure resumes" on linked-in and getting lots of likes. If they were from Boston community college then that wouldn't get them any attention at all!

Trauma Brag

To brag, highlight, or bring attention to hardship that one has experienced. Examples include highlighting one's experience of poverty, illness, abuse, or adversity

These types of brags get attention for higher status signalers and dismissal for low status ones

There's the head of that bank trauma bragging about his illness in order to get more clout in the newspaper headlines

Shit Brag

When you show off something cool and the person response, indifferent or with criticism only to brag about it later to someone else.

John: Hey check out my new Steam Deck. It’s a handheld gaming PC. It can do emulations, mods, plug into a tv or monitor and you can pair all kinds of controllers to it.
Mike: Whatever, it’s kinda lame…

Kyle: Hey John, what cha got there cutie.
Mike: It's a Steam Deck. It’s a handheld gaming PC. It can do emulations, mods, plug into a tv or monitor and you can pair all kinds of controls to it.
John: Way to shit brag, bro.

Vulnerability Brag

Purposefully highlighting your sensitivity, pain, fears, or weaknesses to a public audience.

There goes another CEO using a vulnerability brag by crying on social media

name bragging

When someone always names drops who they have worked for, met, know to increase their bourgyness.

Yo, Adrio is tryin to get at that chick. But he is name bragging again and tellin her he knows all kinds of celebrities.

Sleep Bragging

Snoring so obscenely loud that its obvious you want everyone in the room to know even in your sleep. Can only be done unconsciously. Usually done by, but not limited to, Dads and Dogs.

Doug is on the couch Sleep Bragging again. I don't want to wake him but I can't hear the movie.

Wet Brag

When someone brags about something he thinks is great but is actually lame and that fact that he's bragging about it makes it worse and makes you wonder what he does when he's alone.

Friend 1: Did you hear? Blake's been bragging he collected all the My Little Pony happy meal toys
Friend 2: Really? What a wet brag, I wonder what he does in his free time
Friend 1: Probably writes MLP fanfics