People can choose to not drink for any reason and that's completely chill/acceptable, but a subset of the new wave of sober people are acting quite bizarre about it. I've encountered several people who are treating it like it's something everyone around them needs to know about and compliment them on. I know several people who have been sober for years and I only even found out about it because eventually it was noticeable they were drinking non-alcoholic beer, ordering mocktails, etc. If asked, "I'm sober because X" and we move on. The new wave though post about it constantly on social media and bring it up constantly at social occasions. This post is suggesting people won't think you are fun and will stop inviting you "because you are sober" when in actuality some people just make themselves incredibly annoying and attention seeking. Those of drinking age aren't in elementary school anymore and are not in need of social gratification or gold stars.