If people have been on the site for nearly a year and see in their profile that they have been "a member for 1 year" and have no Yearling Badge, there are a coupe of possible outcomes (in order of likelihood from least to greatest):

1. They will get mad and quit using SO forever.
2. They will get frustrated and search Meta (perhaps for the first time) and find an answer that, while correct, likely brings them very little joy.
3. They will be curious, search for the issue on Meta and become even more curious why this issue keeps popping up periodically. They will discover the history if this issue and get a glimpse into the mind of SO as a community, evolving to improve itself over the months and years. This glimpse will inspire them to make SO a better place, a portal to true human connectedness that it so often replaced by mindless digital rants of circumstance and mere acquaintance. They will find true peace.
4. They will check again in a week or two, and the badge will be there.

If a person has been on the site for nearly a year and sees in their profile that they have been "a member for 1 year" and have no Yearling Badge, there are a couple of possible outcomes (in order of likelihood from least to greatest):

1. They will get mad and quit using SO forever.
2. They will get frustrated and search Meta (perhaps for the first time) and find an answer that, while correct, likely brings them very little joy.
3. They will be curious, search for the issue on Meta and become even more curious why this issue keeps popping up periodically. They will discover the history of this issue and get a glimpse into the mind of SO as a community, evolving to improve itself over the months and years. This glimpse will inspire them to make SO a better place, a portal to true human connectedness that is so often replaced by mindless digital rants of circumstance and mere acquaintance. They will find true peace.
4. They will check again in a week or two, and the badge will be there.

If people have been on the site for nearly a year and see in their profile that they have been "a member for 1 year" and have no Yearling Badge, there are a coupe of possible outcomes (in order of likelihood from least to greatest):

1. They will get mad and quit using SO forever.
2. They will get frustrated and search Meta (perhaps for the first time) and find an answer that, while correct, likely brings them very little joy.
3. They will be curious, search for the issue on Meta and become even more curious why this issue keeps popping up periodically. They will discover the history if this issue and get a glimpse into the mind of SO as a community, evolving to improve itself over the months and years. This glimpse will inspire them to make SO a better place, a portal to true human connectedness that it so often replaced by mindless digital rants of circumstance and mere acquaintance. They will find true peace.
4. They will check again in a weeks or two, and the badge will be there.

If people have been on the site for nearly a year and see in their profile that they have been "a member for 1 year" and have no Yearling Badge, there are a coupe of possible outcomes (in order of likelihood from least to greatest):

1. They will get mad and quit using SO forever.
2. They will get frustrated and search Meta (perhaps for the first time) and find an answer that, while correct, likely brings them very little joy.
3. They will be curious, search for the issue on Meta and become even more curious why this issue keeps popping up periodically. They will discover the history if this issue and get a glimpse into the mind of SO as a community, evolving to improve itself over the months and years. This glimpse will inspire them to make SO a better place, a portal to true human connectedness that it so often replaced by mindless digital rants of circumstance and mere acquaintance. They will find true peace.
4. They will check again in a week or two, and the badge will be there.