History Main / FirstWorldProblems

->'''Phoebe:''' This reminds me of the time when I was living on the street and this guy offered to buy me food if I slept with him.\\

* Music/{{AJR}}'s "World Smallest Violin" is a {{Deconstruction}} of the concept: the singer has mundane problems, like finding school difficult, but when compared to bigger things like war and fires, they feel insignificant and not worth addressing. But even though his own problems aren't ''the'' worst things in the world, that doesn't change the fact that they ''do'' cause him mental anguish and he needs someone to talk to about them.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "First World Problems" is about a rich guy whining about how much his life sucks because of all the horrible problems he has. Problems like buying too much food to fit it all in his fridge, his house being so big that his [=WiFi=] signal can't reach everywhere in it, not being able to take a shower because his maid is currently cleaning the bathroom, forgetting his gardener's name, not being able to find where he parked because he forgot which one of his multiple cars he was driving, his laptop having a single dead pixel in the corner, having to buy an extra item from Amazon that he didn't want in order to qualify for free shipping, and the most horrifying injustice of all: someone actually ''called'' him on his cell phone [[TechnologyMarchesOn instead of communicating exclusively through texting like a normal person]].
** Invoked again by Yankovic during an interview early in his career-- when asked if he had any hardships in his life, he immediately burst into tears over not selling enough copies of his most recent album to make "platinum" status, leaving him only enough money to purchase "the ''medium''-sized hot tub!"
*** Al's "[[DigitalPiracyIsEvil Don't Download This Song]]" does something similarly.
---->Don't take away money from artists just like me\\

* ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'': In “The Aunt and the Sluggard,” Bertie is forced to spend a few nights in a hotel apart from Jeeves, and is driven to reflect for the first time on "the frightful privations the poor have to stick." It sobers him to realize that there are poor benighted souls in the world who have to go through life without being able to employ a full-time gentleman's personal gentleman.

* ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'': Pretty much everyone in the stories is so rich that money isn’t an object, and any conflict comes from such things as romantic misunderstandings and minor domestic squabbles—but that only makes the {{farce}} more hilarious. In “The Aunt and the Sluggard,” Bertie is forced to spend a few nights in a hotel apart from Jeeves, and is driven to reflect on the sufferings of the less fortunate souls in the world who have to live benightedly without being able to employ a full-time gentleman’s personal gentleman.

The TropeNamer is a Website/{{Twitter}} hashtag that became a [[MemeticMutation general meme]]. Twitter is an excellent platform for short moanings about daily life and our miserable existences by people who are generally well-enough off for this sort of problem. The trope itself is [[OlderThanTheyThink older than this]], though: an older memetic quote on the same lines is parents responding to children refusing to eat vegetables with, [[AppealToWorseProblems "There are children starving in Africa!"]] (or "China" in TheThirties).

'''Ethical Bug:''' [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Oh my God...]]\\

'''Ethical Bug:''' Uh, what?\\

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHJEoCrK56o Jack Horner's Song]]" by Kevin Temmer, sung from the perspective of [[WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish Jack Horner]] and his exasperated [[TheConscience conscience]] Ethical Bug, has Horner complaining about his supposedly tragic backstory of being raised by wealthy parents and inheriting a successful baked goods enterprise.