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Input: For some background I’m 20M and the fake “friends” I’m referring to are M19-20. So we all graduated high school together and I didn’t really start befriending and hanging out with these guys until the beginning of senior year. 

To note before I started befriending them. I had (and still do) have another group of friends who I’ve known and been close with since we were all young. But that group of friends for me after graduation we all went to various universities across the US.

So with that I started to branch out and befriend these other guys (now fake friends) during our senior year in high school because we were all thinking (and currently do) go to the same university. And everything was good, typical stuff you expect from a group of guys this age. Such as just giving each other shit and messing with one another but all in good fun and everyone’s enjoying themselves. 

Well fast forward approximately 1.5 / 2 years to this most recent summer. My other 3 good friends, M19-21 (they are the other part of this group with the 3/4 fake friends) who also go to the same college. So we usually text in our group chat asking who wants to get dinner, hang out for the night, or play games on our PCs, typical stuff. And they’d always respond with excuses or they’d just not even give us an answer. So it’d just be my 3 good friends and myself doing whatever. 

As well as at some point during this summer (we all have gaming computers) so we use discord to commute, they made a new channels and chats for just the 3/4 of the “friends” to use so they could ignore us and not interact with us. This is really where they seemed to start to isolate themselves and grow apart from us. 

So we kept trying to get them to hang out and play games but after trying for several months. And them not even giving my one good friend the time of day for his 21st birthday party we just kinda gave up with them. 

Well now it’s November and this literally happened this evening. So the ”friends” were having a bonfire and since they are all under 21, they invited my real friend, who is 21, over to fire and got him to buy them alcohol.   **according to them he didn’t have to bring drinks, but I was told they wanted alcohol so that’s why they invited him over**

So with what I knew at the time, I was messaging my friend saying things like “hey man the whole situation sounds like your getting used because they wanted drinks.”  And “did they only invite you so you they could drink?” Stuff like that cause to me and another good friend it really sounded like he was being used. And also they have never really been a good friend to me so I don’t think too highly of them.  

Well at some point and somehow those ”friends” found out what I was saying about them and asked me in our group chat “why are you so upset and telling him to be careful.” So I flat out said y’all are fake friends and using him for his alcohol. Proceeding to rant about how they have never tried to be my friend, they’d never initiate hanging out or shit like that. They never asked how life was and how I was doing. Like stuff you do with people you care about and care for.

And according to them they aren’t fake, I’m just an insecure asshole who was never a good friend and that I was just jealous I wasn’t invited to hang out but I was already playing games with my other friend?? Then they proceeding to start bringing up pretty personal stuff and being dicks about the things I told them out of trust a while ago (stuff from when I was in a LDR and the issues and feelings I had from that relationship) and then proceeded to say I had a shit life. 

So that pushed me over the edge and made my blood boil for sure. So for one of them I said something along the lines of “have fun marrying and impregnating your girlfriend who couldn’t even graduate high school on time and living that shit life.”  Called another one out and said something like “no car, gets driven to college everyday, no job, no motivation, shit life..” Then I just generally said something along the lines of idc what you all think or say about me. You’ll never know how my side of the story is and what I’ve been through recently (this fall has been pretty rough for me)  but I’m not going to waste my time on those who don’t care about me. 

tl/dr: good friend of mine was invited to bonfire by “friends.” I messaged him telling him to be careful he’s not getting used cause they are fake. Those “friends” asked what my problem was in group chat. Starting getting personal, I called them all fake and got personal back. 




calling out my "friends" for being fake and then blowing up on them