Reno 911! actress Niecy Nash made all the headlines for her impassioned speech after winning an Emmy for her supporting role as Glenda Cleveland in Netflix’s Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story last week. The award was well-deserved, in my opinion. Nash portrayed the serial killer’s next-door-neighbor phenomenally.  Nonetheless, the media’s celebration of her speech as “powerful” and “inspiring” was overly gracious — if not plainly ridiculous.

“I’m a winner, baby!” Nash exclaimed. “Thank you to the most high for this divine moment. Thank you, Ryan Murphy, for seeing me. Evan Peters, I love you. Netflix, every single person who voted for me — thank you. And my better half, who picked me up when I was gutted from this work, thank you.”

That was not bad: a classic acceptance speech, a display of gratitude to those who aided in your success. What followed, though, was what the media found empowering and memorable: the not-so-original and quite narcissistic “thank me” shtick.

“And you know who I wanna thank?” she asked. “I wanna thank me — for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do. And I wanna say to myself in front of all you beautiful people: ‘Go on, girl, with your bad self. You did that.’” Lastly, of course, if the #self-love wasn’t inspiring enough, some BLM-like tirade made it even better:

And finally, I accept this award on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard yet over-policed. Like Glenda Cleveland. Like Sandra Bland. Like Breonna Taylor. As an artist, my job is to speak truth to power, and baby, Imma do it til the day I die. Mama, I won!

Reporters’ amazement at her “tribute to black and brown women” was to be expected. What I found disconcerting was the hyperfixation on the “thank me” portion of the speech. First and foremost, it is simply not original. In fact, Snoop Dog essentially said the same thing and got the same praise after receiving his Walk of Fame star:

I want to thank me for believing in me. I want to thank me for doing all this hard work. I wanna thank me for having no days off. I wanna thank me for never quitting. I wanna thank me for always being a giver…

Originality aside, I can’t be alone in feeling icky when hearing such speeches. After being applauded by thousands, you’re seriously going to pat yourself on the back? I grew up being told that pride is a sin and gratitude a virtue. Thus, when someone says, “Thank me,” it sounds weird and phony.

Self-appreciation isn’t a bad thing, but telling the world how grateful you are about yourself makes you sound egotistical. In The Innocence of Father Brown, G.K. Chesterton said: “Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” In reviewing these “thank me” speeches, I can’t help but think that someone residing in the valley would never deliver one of those.

There are so many people to thank. If, in your moments of glory, your own name is what reverberates through your brain, you are no hero. Despite what People magazine says, you are likely just self-obsessed. That’s no bueno.