These 18 habits give off lower-class vibes – no matter where you are on the social spectrum.
Wealth-Flaunting Online
People can smell nonsense a mile off. If you have to parade your so-called wealth all over social media, chances are you don’t have a penny to your name. People who do have wealth don’t feel the need to showcase it – least of all on the internet.
Living Above Your Means
If you’re spending money you don’t have, you’re trying to convince people you’re doing better than you are. Not only will you wind up in debt, but no one really cares about this kind of thing. And if they do, they’re fickle and not worth your time.
Making A Scene In Public
Throwing tantrums in public should be exclusive to two-year-olds only. A fully-grown adult doing this reeks of lower class mentality.
Zero Humility
Irrespective of financial status, men agree that anyone lacking in humility is low class. This goes for people who think they know everything too.
Public Space-Hogging
Whether it’s refusing to move your bag on the train to let someone sit next to you, or taking up the entire sidewalk with your baby buggy, not making space for other human beings is peasant behavior. Public space is just that – public space.
Speakerphone/blaring Music In Public
This disrespectful and frankly disruptive behavior goes beyond being anti-social, and many men on the internet agree it smacks of low class. Invest in a pair of headphones or shut the hell up.
Bragging About Refusal To Try New Things
We know ignorance is bliss, but there’s absolutely zero bragging rights attached to it. We get that you might not want to try a world cuisine/subtitled movie/different genre of music, but why celebrate it?
Classism
Classism isn’t exclusive to the upper classes looking down their noses at lower classes. More often than not, it’s the other way around. Treating others like they’re beneath you is not okay – no matter where you are on the social scale.
Being A Litter Bug
Improperly discarding trash – be it refusing to recycle, dumping packaging or used items on the ground, or fly-tipping – is classless, selfish, stupid, and environmentally irresponsible.
Being Loud In Public
This harkens back to blaring loud music in public or having a screaming match with another mom at the school gate – being loud and disrespectful in a public place is textbook low class behavior.
People Who Refer To Themselves As ‘Alpha Males’
This is a nod to the incels and Andrew Tates of the world. While there are many problematic elements to the alpha male narrative in today’s society, the long and short of it is that is low class behavior to a tee.
Trash-Mouthing Others
It’s just not dignified, is it? Menfolk of the web unanimously agree that speaking negatively about others smacks of zero self-awareness, which is often synonymous with lower class vibes.
Power Trips
Image Credit: Shutterstock. No matter where you are on the class scale, abusing your position for the sake of a power trip is beyond tacky. One of the reasons those attracted to making others feel inadequate is because they feel inadequate themselves and love nothing more than projecting their insecurities onto others.
Bragging About Their So-Called Wealth
We touched on wealth-flaunting earlier, but bragging about it is just as distasteful – whether it’s on the internet or anywhere else. While flaunting wealth is pretty vomit-inducing, bragging about it is in a low class league of its own.
Debt Pride
Many male web-users picked up on a baffling – and frankly worrying – new habit that seems to be sweeping the lower classes and that’s deliberately getting themselves into debt for the so-called bragging rights attached to it.
Brand Obsession
People who opt to be clad head-to-toe in designer labels are usually financially insecure and are trying their utmost to convince the world they are loaded. Most genuinely well-off people are happy rocking a plain t-shirt and a simple pair of jeans and sneakers. Men agreed that wearing Gucci just to go to the supermarket and pick up toilet paper is a low class move.
Entitlement
Anyone who acts with an air of entitlement is immediately a loser. Class (or lack of) aside, it’s just purely narcissistic.
Lousy Table Manners
Last but not least is poor table manners. This ranges from open-mouthed chewing, obnoxious gulping noises, slurping beverages, teeth-picking, or eating food with hands when it’s clearly designed to be eaten with cutlery – it’s trashy beyond belief.