I think I just spent an hour filling out memes and hashing out the backstory and home life of an OC only tangentially related to any canon characters. I feel this is an excellent use of my time.

Of course it is! I often do this because...well, I do?

in America, it's all 'boo, you have failed, go hang your head in shame'.

Or the alternative is: 'hahaHA! you failed! i won! go stew in that!!'

I wonder what it's like in other places?

Maybe with Olympics but definitely with other things, I've noticed that Korea is like, 'Oh...you failed. Wow, what are you going to do? I mean...how are you going to recover from this? CAN you even recover from this? I don't think so...'