Since on average everyone gets the market return someone must be underperforming the market in order for you to be overperforming.
Or maybe everyone did go up, but just haven't gone down yet in the bubble pop
The USD bubble?
Technically true, but the market as a whole is up so much that I think everyone can be doing well even if a few people are pulling 200% returns.
Most people (at least retail investors) don't measure doing "well" against a benchmark. i.e everyone can be doing well in a bull market.
By definition the median investor makes what the total market return is. Something like VTI is up 25% since Jan 1 2020. If tech investors outperformed a lot, there are lots of boomers who haven't kept up.