I mean… when this first happened…

People paid into the GoFundMe because they thought it was so fucked that all he got was a shitty goodie bag.

I usually see these stories as failures of the system (and to be clear, they are), but in this case, a large number of people saw something that was straight bullshit, and tried to fix that bullshit with kind donations.

That second part, that’s the part that IS NOT a Boring Dystopia.

In other words, this mainly fits because it’s been years since this happened and the way it was presented in a throwaway Xeet. Everyone who remembers the original story remembers that it went viral because it was fucked up that all he got was a shitty goodie bag despite having never missed a day in 27 years.

People coming together to fight the boring dystopia isn’t boring or dystopian, personal opinion.