How to Humblebrag and Get Away with It

The Internet is full of it. The Internet is the only place I’ve ever been told I’m ugly, stupid, or can’t write. No one in Meatspace would ever do that.

Even my worst enemies admit to I’m smart, I can write, and I’m good-looking. That’s nice but it doesn’t really make me better. The looks and brains were simply gifts. I can’t gloat over them if I did nothing to earn them.

Because the Internet is full of it, the Internet insists that humblebragging is the worst social rule violation and foux pas of them all. They insist that everybody picks up on it right away and they all hate it.

The problem with this BS is that this hasn’t been my experience with humblebragging at all. If you do it right, everyone likes it and they even get intrigued and want you to talk about the subject more because you are saying it in a tone that does not imply superiority.

For instance, supposedly I’m a good writer. They’ve been saying it my whole life. The teacher called the principal in to the class in the Seco…