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[@KelseyAnimated]

“I’m cringe but I’m free” 😩 YESSSSS PLEASE BRONY GANG RISE UP!! 🦄

[@gus7807]

PINKIE PIE FOR LIFE E

[@Jadeddoxy]

Y A S

[@dartdevious561]

I'LL DIE WITH THE HERD

[@vari1535]

yo

[@lunaroseartz9126]

I’ve found my people 😂🦄

[@qookhr]

"I'm legally dead" actually gave me chills holy

[@anyathepanther7977]

Also "The paperwork is such a hussel" is reletable, but come on!

[@sophiaredwood5825]

SAME

[@number3766]

@@anyathepanther7977 I'm not sure if it's everywhere, but when I worked on a BSA camp near a military base, but injuries are significantly more paperwork than deaths. Deaths were 3 forms and injuries had a massive range of 5-50, it was dumb. Let me tell ya, insurance papers make you wanna die.

[@violetkatart1791]

LITERALLY i liked pause the video and just went ".....what? :D" LIKE HOW DOES ONE RESPOND TO THAT

[@Renni_Jay]

The worst part is it's the most believable thing he's said

[@sophiaredwood5825]

Now we gotta get a June & Friends UNO video where whenever someone takes a card from the pile, the whole group whisper-screams, _”I like the way you draw, I like the way you draw…”_

[@GremlinZluvCheese]

..... J-UNO

[@thereza3]

YES

[@ihavedaikonlegstoobish2152]

YESSSS PLEASEEE I WOULD LOVE THAT WE NEED JUNE TO DO THAT EVERYONE MAKE THIS THE MOST POPULAR COMMENT IN THE COMMENT SECTION PLEASEEEEEEEE

[@Moth_withknife]

Yessss

[@fishb0wl260]

this made me laugh so hard

[@FratFerno]

"Don't stalk" is an important lesson, but "don't expect a date after just a moment of chatting" is also worth noting.

[@jevonniking4275]

Jesus Christ… when I heard “I like the way you draw” I IMMEDIATELY fell out of my chair! Look, I may have been awkward back in high school, but I would never, NEVER, stoop to that level! Like… dear lord, that almost sounds like when I heard “I like your scars, Pretty boy” when I payed Mafia 2. I can’t even right now. Damn, Regan… that something

[@morallygary9098]

God damn... I came to the comments before watching the video thinking they’d give me a heads up for how painful this would be. This one genuinely mislead me . “Wow that’s not so bad!” I said, not knowing the Mafia context. “I guess this should be a fairly chill, low cringe video!” I thought. Then It happened, and then I welcomed the end for a moment there.

[@Omnihilo_]

Time stamp, please?

[@bumbl_b33]

@@Omnihilo_ 14:06 here ya go!

[@Omnihilo_]

@@bumbl_b33 Thank you!

[@2cat4life]

just letting u know, theyre going by june & they/them now!

[@Typhoonflame]

"I'm cringe and I'm free". legitimately a quote to live by!

[@samanthajordan6670]

it really needs to be merch

[@nyancat8655]

I always tell myself this!! Furthermore your interests aren’t cringe!! There what makes you happy and even unique!! It would be boring if everyone was into the same thing :)

[@vivdragonette7812]

Ah yes, this is appropriate for the spoopy season as it entails something we all fear: awkward semi romantic interaction

[@yourbruira]

"The scariest thing of all, straight men" Me a 6ft tall, pale, dead eyed straight man who looks like Michael Myers, heck I don't even need the mask, just the outfit and I'd look exactly like him:...you have a point

[@gagemann4120]

I’ll just say that to my self when I remember I’m a single lonely straight man

[@redypo]

Why does every guy who's 6ft or above always bring up their height whenever they get a chance

[@rainetopia7130]

@@redypo Because they know they're superior to us shorties and they have to flaunt it.

[@yourbruira]

@@redypo well there is tons of reasons. Mine is because I'm compensating.*cries*

[@cooltrainervaultboy-39]

Same here, brother. Only I look like someone off the cover of those five dollar romance novels you'd see at Walmart after I let my hair down, when I get off work.

[@mimthyss]

"These stories make me sound less bi" Nooo!! There's no such thing as "less bi"! Even if, say, a bi woman ends up settling down with a man and never actually dates a woman, she's still Bi! It doesn't matter what relationship you're in or who you're talking to etc. It doesn't even matter what your preferences are (i.e. 80% male 20% female preference type thing vs vice versa)! "Less bi" is just biphobic bs other people pull to shame bisexuals, don't buy into that crap!! So don't ever feel bad or guilty or something. Bi people are always bi, be proud!

[@violetsanddragons]

I understand your point, but this comes off condescending.

[@mimthyss]

@@violetsanddragons oh, sorry! That wasn't my intention. It was more written in like.. aggressive love and support. Like when someone says "shut up, you're fucking awesome and I love you!" Lol. But I totally get what you mean haha the "sweetie" didn't help too, omg I've edited it now a bit to try to better convey my tone ^^;

[@violetsanddragons]

@@mimthyss I understand, conveying tone in written for can be hard! Thank you for fixing it.

[@mimthyss]

@@violetsanddragons yeah hehe. Thanks for pointing it out! ^^

[@bavettesAstartes]

As a very slightly bisexual man i will admit it is easier to call myself straight. So i do understand.

[@v.v365]

That whole part about being the weirdo who boys would dare their friends to ask out as a joke.. I lived that life. One time I was reading at lunch in middle school and a boy came and sat next to me, but I didn’t look at him or acknowledge him. He tried to strike up a conversation with me but I kept giving short awkward responses so eventually he gave up and left. Never found out what that was about, never knew his name, never even saw his face. Another incident a boy came up to me at lunch and said his friend wanted to ask me out. I was perplexed and I asked where the friend was. He vaguely pointed to a table full of his friends, I couldn’t tell who he was pointing out, but none of them even looked good enough to tempt me so I flatly said “No.” the boy went back to his table and I went back to ignoring his existence, though I suppose his friends might have laughed when he got back to them. I’m introverted, and I was definitely the weird girl who sits alone and reads five novels in a week, who draws a lot on her assignments, who makes odd humming and squeaking noises, so I really feel your struggle Rea.

[@anyathepanther7977]

Same! And for what its worth: your not weird to me^^ This is our "normal". Boys from my class and others would try to be nice to me, only to Go "Gotcha!" After 2 of those dissapointments i would say "So what? I dont care." But it still hurt on the inside.

[@callumrangan1061]

I cant say "I feel you" since I'm not a girl whos experienced that. But I can say that I have watched multiple idiots (friends if you want to be nice) do this and I always cringed. I always felt bad for those girls. All they wanted was to do their own thing in peace and they get used as a joke. I would be that guy who would apologize for my friends and get her to not sic anyone (teacher or otherwise) on him. If this were modern day, Id be a simp, but it got me a girlfriend so yin-yang

[@MONNSTROSITY]

Really weird guy I didn’t like was dared to say he had a crush on me once during lunch. Ruined my whole day. I didn’t know he was joking at first so it creeeeped me out.

[@anyathepanther7977]

@@MONNSTROSITY oh boy, that is so wrong! For me it was'nt a Boy, but the girl's who bullyd me suddenly yelled "My Friend!" I got so weirded out! (It was the teacher who told them to do that, so i wouldnt be "So alone all the time")

[@zzodysseuszz]

I was worse. I was the weird dense teenage boy who never had women talk to them and then one day actually got flirted with for like 2 weeks by the hottest chick in the grade and was too goddamn dense to realise it. Wasn’t until like 5-6 years later when a friend who dated her told me. What luck!

[@polterguy0937]

“Scariest thing of all... straight men”! As a straight male, I have never been so offended by something I agree with.

[@the_big_5_is_the_goat]

Same 😂 it's so freaking true though

[@MicroChibiAxel]

The second story brought back some very recent, very awkward memories for me, and I FEEL for you. My workplace was very short on people for a while, and I was picking up extra hours, so I would come in at 6pm and work until 6am. Due to coming in earlier than usual, I would stop by a pretzel place in the mall on the way to work, because I LOVED those pretzels. This one dude is working the register one of the days when I come in to order my regular. He compliments my necklace, I give a 'thanks', and then head out. Two days later he sees me again because I'm once again working the second half of second shift, and he's like, "Do you just come in for pretzels then leave?" and I'm all "Yup, gotta keep sane somehow." Following week, I come in on one of my days off, twelve hour shift. He comments on it being a weird day, I shoot back that it wasn't by choice, and then he stops and is like, "What are you doing on -insert date here-." and I bring out my phone to check what day that is on and I'm like, "Working or sleeping, depending on the time." He writes his number on the receipt that he hands to me and is all, "Well, give me a heads-up, maybe we can see Venom together." Okay. Sure. Whatever. I'm awkward with people so I give him a smile and and I'm like, "I'll think on it." I don't think on it. I, stupidly, come in AGAIN three days later, and he's there. He asks me again. And I'm like, "Work's been busy, I don't have much time to myself, plus I don't know what my supervisor's gonna put me on for scheduling the next few weeks." I come home the next morning to a Facebook friend request from someone who's name I have never heard of before. It's the dude. He FOUND ME ON FACEBOOK AND SENT ME A FRIEND REQUEST. I never gave him my name. And when I was like, "Um. How did you find me? What?" when he was all passive aggressive on messenger about me never responding back, he just goes, "Oh, I have a photographic memory and saw your name tag. Sorry, I should have told you." My name tag. That is 75% of the time flipped around. And hanging at my waist. Work took mercy on me, finally hired a new second-shifter, and I haven't seen him since.

[@MrBlorp-sf9ye]

Bruh that's creepy, good thing u got saved from it

[@Moon1341]

More regular stories! I love listening to you say about random stories from the past while you draw, because I’m usually drawing too!

[@skye4082]

You’re 3 likes away from 1K likes

[@CairoCreations]

Im aroace and I dated a girl and we saw a movie and kissed and afterwards when we were waking out she was like “did you enjoy that? Like did you feel anything at all?” And I was like “uhhh- tbh no” and she was like “yeah same.” Turns out were both Aroace and now were besties.

[@astrobat5758]

As a recently realized nonbinary person, hearing Rea refer to themselves as they/them makes me super happy because them announcing that they were going to start using she/they was a stepping stone to my genderqueer awakening :D 💜

[@sirmoony5633]

I am happy for that too! You two can rock on and just be whatever you'd like! Cute icon by the way!

[@pumpkinboyo6459]

Hell ya, I'm glad you found yourself, it's a process so don't every be mean to yourself ❤️

[@everyonegetselfears1444]

That’s awesome! :)

[@maemihoshino3010]

Hey, this is my first video with this person so idk but do they use they/them pronouns?

[@pn.2068]

@@maemihoshino3010 Yeah, June's pronouns are they/them.

[@andrejuarez]

I think you handled that first guy about as well as a high schooler could. That dudes friends, family and father had probably been telling him stuff like, "if she isn't outright rejecting you she's playing hard to get" so he takes that nugget of "wisdom" and runs with it... literally. I'm teaching my imaginary sons never to make the first move. No Jr. do not play this game - our kind is clearly not good at it.

[@bavettesAstartes]

Ok i laughed at ''our kind''.

[@starsiadraws]

Making the first move isn't the problem, not taking social cues and refusing respecting personal boundaries is the problem.

[@azzzanadra]

@@starsiadraws what if I am literal minded or autistic to understand social cues? Can you be blunt with me?

[@mynameisddotcalm1008]

@@starsiadraws yeah, I don’t really think either were necessarily in the wrong. I think the guy just liked her or wanted a friend. From what she said, it was obvious he didn’t mean any harm.

[@Pheep5671]

@@azzzanadra You shouldn't teach yourself, much less and especially children, learned helplessness by giving up and not trying.. especially when it concerns people's comfort. Yours matters too, but so do theirs. You *arnt* always going to get it right, but being literal, autistic, or even bad with social cues for any reason, doesn't mean you'll never get it. Not trying to respect or read those cues or learn those cues guarantees it. Not your conditions. I get you were joking but now you seem to be being serious, so I weighed in. Don't give up, dude. At least *trying* to learn is the first step to saving others and yourself from serious embarrassment or heartbreak. But given you're first comment, you obviously understand the content of the video. So.. not sure what this angle was. Violating her space, continuing to follow her and initiate conversation when she stopped responding, following her, interrupting her and her friends.. those are uncomfortable and wrong. Not making the first move. Saying hi to her, and as she says, even trying a few times.. not a problem! But trying for a whole lunch period despite her trying to break away, chasing her, following her, touching her without permission, and interrupting her with her friends without any consideration, making big embarrassing displays.. that was too far. Just in case.

[@herecomedatboi9646]

I've never related to a title more.

[@L0L_puk3]

@good one No one click on this link

[@LiebeLux]

Welcome to the club

[@chuuyas63725thhairstrand]

Samee

[@exaggeratedswaggerofablackteen]

Lmao

[@kswolf180]

Same

[@inkling457]

Had an r/nicegirl manipulate my friends, randomly tell me she loved me, then when I politely turned her down, IMMEDIATELY turned around and told my friends that I'm toxic af and that I'm an awful person and to beware of me. ...To which I showed them screenshots, proving the opposite. Literally everything ever bad about her came out after that. She was banned from our group, she kept using my friends as scapegoats, saying she WAS them and that she should be let back in, blah blah blah. We couldn't report her to the leaders because we had already tried, only to be warned instead of them because we "instigated them", while they're just casually letting a massive art thief and manipulator(this girl) run free in their massive community. ...I was also told that I was being "too harsh" on this girl, when I told my friends, whom she manipulated, not to forgive her after one magic apology after multiple different offenses.

[@tylerjames805]

Sssshhhhhhhhh be quiet! You’re committing wrong think! Didn’t you know only straight men are monsters???/s

[@Djcat_Meow]

Got chased out of a museum when I rejected a guy and he sent a security guard after me. That was something.

[@paradoxtatorstudios9681]

omg i don't know whether to laugh or not

[@anilmehta4714]

Tbh the first guy struck me as possibly being on the Autism spectrum, being super excited when someone shared his special interest and not really understanding social cues. But yeah, the other two stories were wild

[@candyghost1009]

That's what I was thinking! He could have just been super awkward and oblivious, but I was thinking "huh, maybe he was on the spectrum and didn't realize"

[@EmeraldCrafts130]

Huh, that makes sense to me.

[@smugbowkid9919]

No one has ever flirted with me, so I’m not sure if I should be glad or super sad.

[@cooltrainervaultboy-39]

Me too. Granted, I probably had the density of a Popeye's biscuit to have realized if anyone was.

[@Chappelroanfan]

I take it for granted. I prefer friends.

[@silent-hills]

@@Chappelroanfan I prefer friends, too!

[@the_big_5_is_the_goat]

Both

[@sineadcarty7256]

The whole legally dead thing can be a legitimate issue for some people causing a lot of legal stress just to prove that yes, you're not dead. This guy does not sound ike that.

[@1_AussieDollar]

I think the weirdest “romance” story I’ve ever had was in 7th grade. It was a well known fact throughout the entire school that my girlfriend and I (FtM) were dating (we still are~), but I remember this so well. It was around 10am, we were in science, and our teacher had just left the room. It was silent, and this kid from the back of the room randomly just yells out “[Deadname] WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME?!”. I turned around, smiled and just responded “Nah, I’m good, thanks.”. As I turned back to look at my girlfriend, I could just hear his friends all laughing at him, one of which even going “Dude you just got shut down!”. The guy kinda disappeared after 8th grade.

[@callumrangan1061]

Rea's one of the only people I can listen to for 40 minutes and not get bored. Partly because I love animation and the process of creation so the art drawing is awesome. Also because she doesn't sugar coat anything and speaks exactly whats on her mind. I love this channel

[@yupbrookeishere5681]

Your comment just made me realize ive been listening to Rea for 40 minutes holy cramp

[@cyansy]

Hey I believe they go by June now! No hate for not knowing, they just mentioned it in a community post five days ago.

[@juniper1350]

@@cyansy and use they/them pronouns

[@sirmoony5633]

I know, right? Reagan is such a talented little fellow! :D

[@juniper1350]

@@sirmoony5633 *June

[@raneetree7398]

They have graced us again!!!

[@asentientcactus]

@good one hey look your right, it IS here 🖕

[@kobrax0341]

Jesus...Sounds like that link dont got good stuff in it..

[@SweetHackz]

@@L0L_puk3 what does it lead you too????

[@SweetHackz]

@@L0L_puk3 thought id ask instead of clicking-

[@L0L_puk3]

@@SweetHackz Either some random ass video or probably an ip snatcher Seeing as how theyre spamming it with absolutely no context you can't really take chances. Just be safe with certain links.

[@theblazingcrusader6322]

Well now I feel even more weird. I was the guy who unironically ask the “weird” girl out. I enjoyed their company and the art they drew. It was beautiful and I love giving them complements. In most cases I just ended up having a friend, which is great. Some of them are still friends with me to this day.

[@bowtiefox]

"But something that you've got to understand about me, is that i'm the kind of person where if i'm doing a task as simple as putting a mug in the sink and someone asks what you doing my brain fries itself on this spot I will stand there like a dumbass for a whole minute going uh...uh...Because I can't do something and talk at the same time i'm easily overwhelmed and my focus is a tower of cards by the open window so when it comes to me personally" To fucking relatable and i hate it

[@brokenconstellation]

Me Ú_Ù

[@PKSunrise]

the whole "being the weird kid that everyone in elementary clearly didn't like and was dared to ask out" I RELATE SO HARD???? my """"first boyfriend"""" was a kid who was dared to ask me out (and i was told this TO MY FACE) so i told him that dares last a month and dropped his ass when it was our """one month anniversary""". dude was totally a creep and it SHOWED that whole month. keep up the good work, June!!

[@idonotpost1456]

there was a dude that was probably dared to ask me out or is just a lonely ass, he asked me out before valentines and he guiltripped me into accepting his confession. he said “please accept, i got rejected by [girls name]. i was a stupid muffin and accepted, so fast forward to valentines day, he gave me chocolates but i kinda chickened out on the date. so i got free chocolates ;) .tbh that was an ass move but looking back now, man that dude was scary manipulative

[@everest5718]

I only have one romantic exploit story: one guy tried to ask me out with his friends all crowded around me, and I said “uh sure” and then I booked it out of there. Avoided him like the plague for 2 years. We met again in the final year of highschool and he turned out to be a racist. So, uh, dodged a bullet.

[@trashotaku]

Kinda reminds me of something a little similar. I’m fully convinced I was one of my elementary school bully’s first crush since he brought me a stuff pink webkinz monkey w/ red and Purple Hearts on it for valentines in kindergarten. I mentioned that story once when I was in a freshman college class (can’t remember the subject) and some of the girls suggested looking him up. One of the girls then found an instagram post of a selfie of his using the n-word w/ the hard r in the caption. He’s white 💀💀💀

[@BoltXZFTW1]

“His discord icon…was a trollface” My immediate thought- ‘We do a little bit of trolling.”

[@ThanatosMist]

Fun fact: being declared legally dead while still alive does happen. Idk about the hospital story or anything but people are declared dead while still alive. Sometimes this can be a case of they purposefully disappeared and were missing for 8 years and declared that way or a typo in documents. Having been declared dead makes your life a living hell because even if you get it Reversed it's still in your records and companies will view that suspiciously. This means anything from getting an apartment, getting a job, opening a bank account, buying a house, or getting a loan can be difficult. Also you may lose access to your bank account cuz your death would have been flagged in their system, at least one person found out the court declared them dead this way. Brew did a video on this which is where I got most of this info

[@tenshiginakuch2388]

Her: Scariest thing of All, "Straight men" Me, a Straight man who everyone thinks is Gay: Well no, but actually Yes.

[@rainetopia7130]

Maybe you are gay. Jk jk. You just must be an eccentric or introverted individual for people to think that.

[@ratticustheemperor]

behind every straight person is a raging bisexual... (slash jay ;-;)

[@tenshiginakuch2388]

@@rainetopia7130 I'm not, I've already checked

[@bavettesAstartes]

@@tenshiginakuch2388 been there. Three times now. You have my sympathies, dude.

[@tenshiginakuch2388]

@@bavettesAstartes it's really helpful to get out of awkward situations with unpleasant women. Her: I have a boyfriend! Me: so do I hon.

[@gyrrakavian]

OK..... So general heads up for everyone; *DON'T EVER GIVE OUT A COWORKER'S PHONE NUMBER THAT'S SUPER ILLEGAL.* Hell, you're not even legally allowed to say if they work that day or give out their work schedule if asked by some rando (even if the rando claims to be related).

[@kwieepiee]

Can this video be used as a podcast? Yes. Yes it will be.

[@Falxifer95]

This video reminded me all the ways I screwed up with my crushes in high school (not gonna go into it, its too painful), but also how I changed for the better (thanks college). And yeah, there's no excuse for being creepy, dense, awkward, and not taking the hint or reading the room, but change is possible, and a harsh reality check is not a requirement to change for the better.

[@Coffnist_Charm]

You know something you just gotta look high school you and go "Wtf?" Cringing at your past self is a good thing.

[@KittazziCrafter]

So so so. Here's my weird flirting story. Many years ago in 8th grade I was already having kind of a weird day at school because my class switched what lunch we were taking for the day for some reason I honestly can't remember. Because of this, I couldn't sit with the friends I normally sat with at lunch, so I was just wandering around looking for someone, ANYONE I knew so I could sit with them. I ended up finding a pretty good friend I had known for a couple years, and eventually a couple of his friends came to join us. One of these friends was a year above the rest of us, and he seemed pretty intrigued about whatever video game I was talking about at the time. Nothing really stood out to me about that, my friend introduced us to each other, we kept talking for a bit, lunch ended and that was that. Later that day I was scrolling through an unofficial discord server a friend of mine made for our school, and I see a guy talking about this really cool gamer girl he met earlier in the day. It was that upperclassman guy. I felt a little weird about it, but I just assumed he was excited to talk to someone who likes similar games as him. Days pass and turns out this guy rides my bus, and that was the start of my living hell. The guy started sitting next to me every day, and he'd sit so close to me I barely had any space to move. Since I usually got on the bus before him, I'd have to sit uncomfortably squished against the window while he took up 80% of the seat. I get super claustrophobic, so that sort of situation gave me sooooo much anxiety. While sitting by me, he kept trying to strike up a conversation, even when it was clear I wasn't interested in talking. One day he even pulled one of my earbuds OUT OF MY EAR to talk to me. Even on days when he managed to get to the bus first, if I walked past him and sat in a different seat, obviously hinting that I didn't want to sit by him, he'd just get up and come sit by me. It got to a point where I was begging one of my friends to run from her last class to sit next to me before this guy could, because I just couldn't handle it anymore. This guy just wouldn't leave me alone, no matter how many hints I dropped. I could already tell that this guy had a crush on me, but a mutual friend of ours confirmed it to me. He said he could tell I was uncomfortable with the guys advances, and asked if there was anything he could do to help, but I was just so confused and didn't know what to say. The worst part of it all is when he somehow found out that I have clinical depression. I don't know how he figured it out, but according to that mutual friend, he would regularly romanticize my fucking mental illness and gush about how since we're both depressed, we were made to be with each other. I so badly wanted to turn him down, but I was too nonconfrontational to do it myself. Eventually I had that mutual friend had to tell him to leave me alone, and luckily he listened, but god it was one of the most uncomfortable periods of my life.

[@251.bigshawn]

“The scariest thing of all, straight men” * me in John mulaney voice * - “we know but HEY “

[@Midnight3Wonder]

I've had some . . . interesting . . . flirty exchanges. Entirely one-sided, and most of the time not from my end. Whenever I crushed on someone, it never really got weird or awkward. It was mostly me just crushing on someone and wanting to build up a friendship with them without it getting weird. When I crushed on someone, it was just a cute and wholesome crush that never crossed into weird territory. However, it's the times when others crushed on me that really stand out to me. Most of them were pretty harmless, though some guys (not neccessarily "crushing" on me, but still being "flirty") gave me nightmares for how toxic they were being when interacting with me. I literally had to call the cops on one of them. Most of the guys crushing on me were actually friends of mine. I would turn them down and explain to them that I didn't feel the same for them and that it wouldn't feel right with me if I agreed to go out with them simply because they wanted to but I didn't. I would be very careful with my words and make sure I turned them down gently and preserve our friendships. Luckily, none of them ever got upset or stopped being friends with me when I rejected them. They understood and we continued to be friends until life naturally drifted us apart. Though, in college, my rejections stood out a bit more to me. I had just started college and, within a few weeks, began hanging out with this one guy who was a bit socially awkward and shy yet very sweet. He seemed really nice and like someone I could hang out with. While walking to class together, somehow the conversation of dating came up and I told him that I wasn't interested in dating at the time. He got super quiet and I asked him what was up. He admitted that he thought I was really cute and sweet and that he had been planning to ask me out. I felt SO BAD that I accidentally rejected him before he even got the chance to ask, and apologized for the situation. I did comfort him and reassure him that I'd still like to be friends with him, which made him feel better. The next time I went to school, he was in a panic. I had missed a day right after his confession and he worried that he had scared me off. It took me a bit to calm him down, but I reassured him that that wasn't the case. I just so happened to have gotten sick with the flu or something the day after his confession and had to stay home to recover. We had a bit of a laugh over the situation and became good friends. The next confession was right at my college graduation. I was super nervous and panicked because I had to give a speech in front of everyone while also having some extreme stage fright. I would have felt a lot better if my brother could have been there, but he had classes at the time and so wouldn't be able to make it. He did, however, give me his watch so that I'd have something of him there with me. Right as I was in the process of trying to calm myself down about 5 minutes before the ceremony started, one of my college friends who had already graduated but came to see the rest of his friends graduate asked to speak with me in private. I thought he was gonna give me a pep talk to help calm my nerves as he knew how bad my stage fright was. Instead, he began pouring his heart out to me and confessing that he loved me. I had never seen him so serious before. Literally when I first saw him, he made it pretty clear that he was the class clown and I thought to myself that he was someone I should avoid since I wanted to be focused on my studies. He did eventually win me over and we became good friends, but I never once suspected that he would develop feelings for me. Throughout his confession, I kept giggling and couldn't help but smile ear to ear. I think the nerves building up from everything finally got to me and I couldn't stop laughing as my reaction to it all. I felt so bad because I didn't want to make him think that I thought his confession was silly or anything. It genuinely sweet and any girl would be lucky to be confessed in such a way. However, it was just not the right time or situation to confess to me. I was stacked up on nerves and being confessed to by someone who I had never seen be so serious before. I just couldn't hold back my laughter. I apologized several times throughout his confession for laughing and tried my best to listen. Once he finished, I apologized again for laughing so much and turned down his feelings for me. He at least knew that I wasn't interested in dating or anything, so he wasn't too upset. He did feel bad that I saw him more as a brother than a lover, but we hugged it out and were just glad to still be friends. I did get a little snippy with him for dropping that on me right before the ceremony when I was already having a bit of a nervous breakdown, but he laughed it off and apologized for that. He ended up dating another girl in our friend group and I was super happy for them. Sadly, they ended up breaking up due to religious reasons and we ended up cutting her out of our friend group as we realized that she was actually a bit toxic. I was so upset when I found out just how bad the break up was and did what I could to be there for him. It was unfortunately only a year or two after college that I finally learned about asexuality and realized what was up with me. I honestly wish I had known about it sooner so that people didn't try to pick at reasons for me not being interested in dating or anything. I literally got caught up in a conversation with a group of girls from college who were trying to figure out why I was still single. They initially thought it might have been due to religious reasons, but I quickly sunk that theory when I explained that I'm not actually religious. They began asking me why I didn't want to date and were not satisfied with simple answers like "I'm just not that interested" or "I don't really have anyone I see myself being with". I feel like I could have saved myself from a lot of awkward situations if I had known sooner. Then again, there have been situations where I am very open about my sexuality and people still somehow think I am in a relationship. One guy was so insistent that I'm dating someone who was just a frequent client of mine that he actually began an argument with me over it. He sited some of the art commissions I had done for the client, to which I explained that they were intended to be friendly and the ones that leaned more on the romantic side were actually gifts the client asked me to draw for friends of his. I don't understand how he could so strongly insist that I'm dating someone when I'm obviously not. I mean, I think I would know my love life just a little bit better than some guy who follows my work on the internet. Weird...

[@anannoyingpieceofspaghetti9793]

Rea talks like she's with her besties and their all telling stories while eating Cheeto puffs and just radiating chaotic energy in a mile radius

[@Spiritwing1999]

I never really had a creepy guy who crossed the line with my art, I did have some girl. Any artist can tell you that we don't like you watching us draw over our shoulders, especially don't like people going through our sketchbooks without permission. In my school we had this one thing where we will move between tables to do these projects. We are all supposed to leave our stuff at the table while we move because it takes too much time to move with all of our stuff. However because I left my stuff this one crappy girl decided she was going to open my sketchbook and go through my art. Keep in mind at the time I was very interested in creepypasta. I saw her do this but I have really bad anxiety so I never confronted her or caused the scene. After the projects were done and we were able to go back to our table she came up to me and told me that I am very demented. All I could do at the time was just look at her in just shocked... I may be demented but she's the one who doesn't know common decency not to go through people's things 😡 my art was like my diary and I felt like she was invading my privacy. At the time I was just embarrassed and nervous but now that I'm older looking back at this I am just pissed that she had the audacity to not only do that but then confront me about it as if I was in the wrong.

[@Sketchyjenn]

This Very VERY older man got kicked out of the store I worked at for trying multiple times to ask me, an 18 year old at the time, out on dates and also waiting outside in the dark with his truck after we closed

[@bucketofcalzones457]

That legally dead story is the really bad. I’m glad you never met up with someone who was so very clearly trying to hide the fact that they were secretly a vampire.

[@wickedskyes]

On the whole, boys daring each other to ask you out as like a “haha funny” thing… YEAH SAME LOL I was a rather sensitive kid & would start freaking out at like a moment’s notice if something screwed me over. (I’m still a little easily overwhelmed, but it was much worse then) When I wasn’t crying & freaking out at someone, I was almost dead silent unless I was with my friends. Didn’t exactly help that I got bullied a lot, & didn’t trust anybody I didn’t know was okay… oddly enough, though this “asked out as a joke” thing never affected me too much, because I’ve never liked boys in that way, & I accepted the idea that they wouldn’t like me that way either before it started happening. First time, I was in a class with two of the most annoying kids in the whole school. They were those unfunny class clown types that screwed around with everyone & disrupted class. & while I was certainly no teachers pet or anything, I just wanted to have a quiet class, & them screwing over the poor sap just trying to teach us about circuits & stuff kinda ticked me off. So me being sensitive & surprisingly confrontational with how shy I was normally, I’d usually butt heads with them because I just wanted them to shut up. So yeah, not exactly budding-romance potential… So we’re working on some projects, me & the two self-appointed jesters are on our usual shriek-fest whilst working. This time was odd, because I actively tried to sit away from them &… they followed me. Naturally, this freaked me out. (Partially bc I’d been stalked before, & it was unfunny) So I flipped on them like “bruh wth leave me alone, why are you even following me” & the one of the clowns says “Oh, well, it was my friends idea. He likes you!” Now he said that in a way that implied romance, & whilst I had very little social experience… I knew that wasn’t genuine. I didn’t even flip out about it or anything from that point, I just kinda deadpanned at them flatly said “…no. Neither of you like me. You guys are total jerks to me.” (That might sound pretty intense, but that’s how I talk. That was pretty light for me back then.) The clowns tried it a couple more times, insisting that “no bro, he totally likes you,” & I just kept rolling my eyes & sighed “Even if that were the case, I don’t like either of you. At all. So shut up.” (Kinda harsh on my part, but that was how I was… & they were trying to make a hurtful joke so like, I didn’t care at all. Nowadays I like to think I have a little more tact…) I think at that point, they realized that joke wasn’t getting any sort of funny reaction from me so they just shut up?

[@MysteryGang.]

I cried for an hour before watching this video, it's 4 am, I'm upset about the fact that I'm 20 years old and Ive never had my own room, my own space of any kind, and I can't move out, also scared and confused about what I want out the future and life The reason I'm bringing this up is because something about Rea's energy just... inspires me. It makes me happy, hopeful, and ready to work hard to push through, thank you Rea

[@Beedraws2004]

i’ve been drawing for six years which is since grade six. i’ve always drawn in public but never had anyone mention it until this year (i’m in senior year) and since i haven’t had experience and i’ve developed more social anxiety of the years i have no idea what to say when i’m asked about it. it’s just me turning absolutely bright red and stuttering about my drawing

[@Keltain]

That’s… that’s not how being declared legally dead works…. Also the military wouldn’t message him if he was dead??? What was he ON

[@xoderota]

weed probably

[@dimmedbulb5972]

KZbin getting real comfortable with double non skipable ads

[@TheBronf]

oh its been getting worse and worse each year.

[@serene3175]

just wait until it’s 5 non skip-able ads. it’ll be like watching tv lol

[@kelseyebright5604]

The guy who texts "good morning beautiful", I've had that happen before. I met him once and his cousin, whom I was friends with, gave him my number. Then for the next 3 weeks proceeded to try and flirt through text. I ghosted. I refused to even acknowledge him. 😓

[@stickwashere5248]

yay my favorite nb artist uploaded:]

[@secretlyditto7716]

Oh GEEZ I GOT ONE FOR YOU! So I’m in high school, junior year. I’m going to school with my sister so normally we sit together at lunch, but our school is weird and splits our 8 classes into two separate days. A days and B days; 4 classed on one 4 on the other. And our lunch times were determined my our 3rd period class for the day, it was either a first or second lunch (my school was very creative I know lol). I don’t remember which lunch I had, but the point is that this year I didn’t have the same lunch with my sister at all so we couldn’t sit together. So instead I ended up sitting with this group of kids that would play card games for all of lunch. We played scum, BS, and slap jack, but mostly just scum. I these group of kids was the guy who brought the cards everyday. I won’t use his real name but for the sake of my tale I’ll call him Kyle. Kyle was awkward. He really liked psychology and considered himself to be a master at reading other people. But I wasn’t picky about the friends I was taking during lunch since my only consistent friend has been my sister. A bit more background on Kyle. He is a grade above me, and we first met in middle school. A social dance class. There was a lot of weird drama in that class, but he was one of the few boys in class and he really only wanted to dance with me and one other girl. At the end of the class that year he came up and told me, “hey maybe we could go on a date sometime,” Me, 14 years old, and not knowing I was ace/aro panicked and said, “haha I dunno maybe.” And we didn’t talk again until we started playing cards at lunch. So I’m going into this card game group, knowing that the kid running it liked me 3 years ago and I wasn’t severely uncomfortable with it, but I was aware and uncomfortable. Turns out I wasn’t entirely wrong and he did still like me, but he didn’t try to do anything sweet or anything. He just bided his time. Meanwhile, as this is going on, Kyle has the same class as my sister and they walk to it together. They talk about stuff as they’re walking because they both really like psychology. And for the past month leading up to this incident some of the things he’s been saying have been concerning my sister. Perhaps she’s reading to far into it but she thinks from what he’s saying to her that he would like to unalive himself. He’s saying stuff like, “What if you knew everything was going to change after you did something, would you have the strength to do it?” And she goes, “👀 you should talk to a counselor.” This continues to happen, she’s getting increasingly more worried, until he finally reveals that he has a crush on a girl. She’s upset but that alone, like, come on dude why didn’t you just start with that instead of being the most ambiguous person on the planet?? Later, he revealed to her that he’s pretty sure the girl he likes, likes him back. She’s sorta curious and asks who this girl is and he tells her that it’s me. Well, my sister knows that I don’t like him, because we both seem to like the same guy and we’re very open about that to each other. She’s asks, “what makes you think that?” “Well, it’s just the way she *moves her body*.” This makes her mad and she stops talking to him. When we meet up after school to walk home she tells me all about it and, “You shouldn’t sit with him anymore he’s looking at you weird.” Well, I did. And he graduated and I was left to my senior year all by myself. Except he came back into my life. And he won’t leave me alone. We go to the same college and he saw me around campus once, and now he comes over to talk to me any chance he gets. I just sit on my iPad, draw, and mostly ignore him but he doesn’t get it. Smh Sorry, long story TLDR; A kid older than me is convinced I like him back because of the way I “move my body” so I irl ghost him.

[@EmeraldCrafts130]

That is nuts. That dude is weird.

[@asentientcactus]

“The scariest thing of all!… STRAIGHT MEN” Agreed lol 😂 🥲😭

[@randaku2649]

everyone’s a lil fruity ✨✨✨

[@ahappyjackolantern]

“Disclaimer: that was a joke” No no, you’ve got a point!

[@alexvaldelamarbustamante3835]

As a straight man, i agree.

[@xmascritter2383]

Im very glad to hear I wasnt the only one who was the person asked out only on dares as jokes, weirdly relieving to know Im not alone

[@TECH097]

EDIT: I am SO sorry June, I didn't mean to deadname you I had no idea it was changed until I randomly saw a post on twitter! I edited this message to update it with your proper name: NGL June I did crack a big smile when you said "Straight Men" with spoopy music hahaha I could tell you was just foolin' around and as a Straight Man I approve XD

[@abigailw7146]

this dude right here, is officially a cool person

[@SpringStarFangirl]

I've only ever been a relationship- if you could really call it that- once, with one of my friends. We had a lot of interests in common, he was funny (this is making me sound way not panromantic, but I HAVE LITERALLY ONLY BEEN IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE PERSON AND HE'S PAN TOO) and I looked forward to chatting with him every day (yay timezones). So he asks me about this girl he thinks he likes, I give him some advice, then a couple of weeks later it hits me that I might have a crush on him. Turns out he was actually crushing on me as well, so we started doing "online dates". Nothing really changed except us calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend. So then, after a few months of this, we realize that this isn't going anywhere. We "break up" but remain friends, and the reason break up is in quotation marks is because we still aren't sure if we were in a relationship in the first place... LOL. I do know that that's not how most first relationships are, but being arospec-ace, I literally can't fall for someone who isn't my friend, so...

[@dannyhall1194]

So it was more like best friends instead of romance that's cool!

[@SpringStarFangirl]

@@dannyhall1194 yeah... That's life when you're quoiromantic...

[@dannyhall1194]

@@SpringStarFangirl OH well I think I might be too but I can't be sure since I have strong attraction to people one minute then platonic yearning the next!!😔😔

[@SpringStarFangirl]

@@dannyhall1194 Actually, that's not the definition of quoiromantic. It means that I can't really tell the difference between platonic, alterous, queerplatonic or romantic affection.

[@dannyhall1194]

@@SpringStarFangirl Thanks on the explanation and that helped me more!!😊😊

[@lovestrucktheidiot]

Back when I was still in highschool, there was a guy in my grade that was a class A weirdo (and for simplicity's sake I'll call him Bob). He was really well known for being off-putting, and also infamous specifically because of the fact that his aid wouldn't actually do anything when he'd make girls uncomfortable besides saying his name in a scolding tone (which didn't do anything! shocker). Reasonably because of his reputation he'd cling to anyone that would hold conversations with him, and I honestly wanted to be friends with the guy so bad because he didn't really have any, but his behavior was so unsavory in a self-aware way that I felt uncomfortable continuing to interact with him. I don't remember most of my interactions with him, since I've blocked highschool out of my mind for the most part, but the thing that sticks out to me most was when I was staying after school to study for my junior year math final. Since it was basically summer at that point I was wearing shorts and a tank top (I'd never once worn a tanktop to school in all three years there so far, same goes for shorts), even though the room was cool. Bob comes in with his aid, locks eyes with me immediately, sits down in the chair directly to my right, and starts making smiley small talk until it's time for the practice test. And then he starts openly oggling me for the next half an hour. No attempt to hide it, no real focus on his work. He keeps moving his eyes back over to me to oggle, and I got to the point where I was bordering a panic attack because he was doing it so intensely. I ended up rushing the practice test just so I could get the hell out of there and leave, and the moment I reconnected with my girlfriend I started crying because that was the first time that had ever happened to me. Hey, hey Bob, if you're out there? Suck my nuts. You continued to pull this shit all the way until you graduated, taking advantage of your aid's lack of shits given to make girls all over school uncomfortable, make disgusting bigoted jokes, and generally be a pervert. I'd hoped you'd chill by the time we got out but you never did. Thanks for contributing to my highschool hell.

[@LeahsLifeYT]

A whole rack of chills went up my spine with the "I like the way you draw" whisper X'D rip

[@pixiesh1850]

man, i have so many dudes like this in classes now. this straight boy drew a heart on my hand today?? and the sheer amount of times i've had to speed walk away from people in the halls because they call me mommy. it's honestly pretty ridiculous, school's wild.

[@atinyevil1383]

I feel you so hard on the tinder thing! The whole reason I talk to people online is so that I don’t have to be in front of people. It’s one of the many reasons why I don’t want to try dating cis men again EVER.

[@ronnor99]

I don't know a lot about being legally dead but I know that one of the hardest things is that you can't apply for a job so the story dosent check

[@omlette]

THE WAY YOU RENDER IS MEZMERIZING

[@generalkenobi7232]

"The scariest thing of all : straight men" so I could have actually saved money by using the argument "I'm dressing as me" for costume parties AND I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT

[@garivelthecleric]

I always hated being bothered while drawing in school. My reflex was to just start doodling horribly ugly things. Like, worse than a toddler could draw. It did not work as well as intended.

[@axolotlinabucket1287]

when people are looking i just drew generic shit like birds or skulls or something like that

[@dolly.]

One time at lunch in my hs years, someone I knew- ykno one of those friends of a friend- called me over to their table and asked me if I thought the guy she was sitting next to was cute. I, a fool, said yes not realizing that she was wingmanning. She said "Great! You two are going out!" And the table started cheering. I panicked and instead of being polite just awkwardly shouted NO- I then had to explain to an entire table of people I barely knew that not only was I already dating someone but that someone was a girl. Terrible, worst self outing experience of my life

[@vivia389]

“ my life is rocks :)” … Izzy you had the wide open opportunity to make the pun “ my life rocks” but you shot it down like my dreams

[@tayloradams3993]

Watching you simp over cemetery boys having already read it.... gives me so much joy

[@randaku2649]

YESS NEW JUNE STORYTIME??/ also please don’t die. That intro sounded rough bestie i’ll go get the NyQuil

[@XwX1001]

Sorry if this sounds rude, but just so you know, they're non-binary. They/them pronouns now. And just in case you wanna do this in the future, they go by "June" if you wanna address them directly instead of by nickname or username. Again, not trying to be rude. Happy Halloween, friend.

[@randaku2649]

@@XwX1001 hooo fuck, i haven’t watched their channel in ages. Thank ypu so much for telling me, i’ll fix it immediately.

[@randaku2649]

also, i don’t know if June is still getting notifs on this comment (they hearted it earlier) but i wanted to apologize again, and i’ll make sure to look for pronouns from now on instead of assuming. So sorry for misgendering you!

[@XwX1001]

@@randaku2649 No harm, no foul. Thanks, friend. =)

[@Jay_Vee1]

@@randaku2649 they actually came out about it on twitter, so no need to worry about missing something here on youtube. They've said that Rea (their avatar/character) goes by she/they. Hope that clears up any confusion.

[@teritt]

Apparently the call back thing is true, it happened with my Dad was a soldier and people who backed out of signing up for the military at my school. It’s a scam though.

[@nathantheholt]

As an Asexual who went to high school before that was a commonly known thing (I also didn’t know it at the time either), I was just known as the weird guy that was probably in the closet. Since I basically went to school with the same people from elementary to high school, everyone I went to class with knew I didn’t want to date people since I was young, so no one tried that date dare thing with me, but I did end up dating a friend in high school because she genuinely seemed to like me. I didn’t make it public, so none of those longtime classmates knew we were dating, but we eventually got outed. When I left class to run an errand for the teacher one day, those classmates started teasing a female friend of mine about the two of us dating and she snapped at them, telling them I was dating our mutual friend. I will never forget the look of shock on their faces when I came back to class and they all yelled “YOU HAVE A GIRLFRIEND!?” I wasn’t super happy with my friend, but I couldn’t really blame her. Was a little satisfying to see that my former bully was actually terrified of my girlfriend and really kept his distance from me after he learned we were dating. Things didn’t work out between us, but my ex went on to marry a nice dude, so I wish them the best.

[@ljdraka7984]

I was also the weird girl in middle and high school who just put on her earphones and drew when I got the chance and kept my head down. Now, I have one occasion that I’ve been asked by a mean/weird guy. This happened in eight grade. It was about a week or two before our eight grade formal and already kids were asking each other at to be dates to the formal. I was planning on going alone but at the last second I was invited to go along with a group of girls that I knew, but I really can’t say we’re my friends (idk how I ended up with them honestly.) Anyway, we were in science class and I was doing my work as usual before this boy came up and abruptly asked me out to the formal. Now I went off by a rule that was laid out from my dad that I took very seriously back then. It was that I couldn’t date until I’m 18, which I was perfectly fine with since I wasn’t interested in any guys. This guy in particular wasn’t the nicest of guys when it came to me as well, being picked on and everything. But still, he asked me out to it. Me, being the polite and honest girl I was, told him no, since I wasn’t interested, and my thirteen year old brain thought that it was against the rule my dad laid out. So he left back to his seat and I thought that was the end of it, so I got back to work. I didn’t notice the girls at the other table giggling and such with him being over there after he left. They weren’t the nicest to me so I fully ignored them. A couple minutes later…..THIS BOY came back with a fully made poster, with GOLDFISH crackers glued to it, because apparently the girls thought it would be cute, and tried asking me out again with it. I felt so embarrassed that the thought of him getting a sign from those girls was just a way to tease and embarrass me that I just got up, asked the teacher to use the bathroom, and just sat there for a good ten minutes in the stall crying. -I did have a good time though at the formal with my actual other weird friends so it wasn’t all bad. But that’s my weird guy story ^^

[@paradoxtatorstudios9681]

my immediate reaction would have been like "aww thank you, now get outta my face" with a kind smile to confuse the hell outta them. . . but seriously, dude, you okay?

[@starfox3331]

As a formal quiet person and artist, I am so sorry you had to go through that.😞 Also, I think you are adorable, have a nice day. ❤

[@andlien2175]

I relate so much as someone who was also an odd, quiet, art kid that was bad at the whole talking thing. Some of the worst quote, unquote, "romantic" stories I've had from middle school to my young adult life are (just to note, I am a trans man, but was closeted through all my school years and even now am only out online for safety reasons, so even though I am a man, I do unfortunately present as a woman in most real life spaces): - In middle school I tried to confess to one of my friends I was crushing on via a note passing during lunchtime (Yeah I know) only to have one of his friends open it at their table, read it allowed, and laugh at him. (The laughter was loud enough I could hear it from the table I was at half way across the cafeteria with the other "weird kids"). He was so embarrassed that he was bright red. After a bit he brought over the note, all his friend group staring, told me "Look, you know that's not gonna work" and then went back to his table. At the time I was really hurt by this, but I realize now that even if he did care about me, as just a friend or more, he was also embarrassed of me and cared more about his friend group than me and was just to far under peer pressure. -All throughout highschool I had several lesbian and bi girls assume I was a butch lesbian because I dressed more masculine at the time and constantly hit on me (I am not attracted to women) to the point of getting a little pushy about trying to date. In 10th grade I even had one girl get angry at me during quiet time towards the end of a class when I said I didn't like girls and she literally yelled "But you look like a lesbian! Why are you lying to me?! Am I just too fat for you skinny f**got!?" She was actually sent out to the hallway and had to talk to the teacher. I immediately stopped trying to dress masc at school after that. After that she started spreading rumors that at one point got me called into the office. -Had one guy who started chatting me up in 11th because we had gym class together and talked about stuff like anime and when I politely declined the offer he started to buy me things to try and change my mind to get me to basically try and get me to sleep with him despite me constantly telling him no. Eventually I had to have two other guy friends to get him to back off because he was starting to get creepy and do things like ask for my address to "send more presents" -Had a close friend that I actually tried to come out to in private only for them to immediately be suddenly start flirting with me. She then later told to me that she thought was a lesbian but continued hitting one me despite knowing I wasn't a woman (big frickin yikes)

[@AkamaruLover2]

One time I was at a card shop talking a dude I had seen around a few times. He looked around 25-30. After a little bit he asked me how old I was, which I told him 22. To which he replied, with visible disappointment, "Oh, I thought you were younger"...and he ended the conversation and left not long after.

[@felixcorona13]

"I'm cringe an I'm free" i like that an shall use it now lol thanks ♥️

[@cattrickie]

lol yeah, in middle school two guys said they liked me and then, within a day, said that they were joking or felt bad. like, hmmm, that seems like a really kind thing to do to somebody who's brain is still developing.

[@angelic_hime2639]

I have a story to share; This was a few years ago, I was around 14-15ish years old. I was in a public discord chatting up with other people in the voice call and having normal conversations until this guy came in, I’ve never spoken to him before then. His name was “Jaden” and he hit me up in my dms asking me if I wanted to be his girlfriend. I was like “Excuse me ? I’m not really sure what you mean we’ve only talked in voice call once and this our first time meeting, so if there any particular reason as to why you’d like to date me ?” And he responded with “Well you sound like one of my favorite anime character crushes !”. I responded with “oh really? Who ?” And he had told me I sounded like Kyouka Jirou (from mha, which I did not know of at the time). I was just really confused and didn’t speak to him after that because I didn’t know him and I sounded nothing like Jirou at all. So all in all people on discord being weird.

[@musicaltrash2315]

The thought of somebody with a troll face profile picture saying they’re a high honor veteran who is begged to come back is hilarious to me

[@rameroli]

Mood at the whole "boys got dared to ask you out thing" had a guy do that and take me out to DQ and break up with me three days later. Later found out it was cause he got "egged" so y'know

[@RprSonic]

Idk. I use to think relationships were super important. I still do wanna find someone one day but I just wanna go with the flow and if I meet someone then I'll see where it goes. People shouldn't have to worry about "being alone" forever. I think being alone but also happy is better than being with someone you might not be happy with.

[@gloomytomb]

In my elementary school, there was a game called “Oreo” Thats basically just rock paper scissors except the loser had to ask out whoever the winner told them to. I was one of the kids that would get asked out as a joke.

[@boysnberriespie]

I could believe the military would ask a dude to come back if he left early, but not because he’s good at his job 😭 the military just sucks (as someone who grew up an Air Force brat) But also what a wild and untrue story overall (although it is true that making yourself un-legally dead is practically impossible) that guy sounds so much like the fake military bros that always come out of the woodworks, you know they want to go to Wyoming or Montana to join a militia lmaoooooo

[@elizabethguess6285]

The first story reminds me of my senior year. There was this boy who would follow me and stand about 6ft away from me and my firends. He would try to start conversations or but in conversation. One day he asked me to go to prom. I told him I already have some one and he got mad at me. The stalking got worse. He would follow me everywhere. The breaking point is when he came up and hugged me from behind. My firend pulled him off and he threaten to fight her. My firend laughed l. So this boy goes to the vice principal to tell him he was being threatened. But our vice principal told him not to put his hands on girls with out permission. I went to prom with my firend. Let's say I never had to deal with him after that.

[@sapientbirb7350]

Closest thing to romance with me happened during elementary school. I had a friend that had a pretty big crush on me when I was real little, and she made it as obvious as she possibly could. From asking questions that would result in me saying that I loved her as a girlfriend, to giving me hugs that would quite literally lift me off my feet. One time even strong-arming me into walking with her while holding hands. Despite her advances, me being the dense little squirt I was, had absolutely no idea that she liked me in that way. So much so, that it wasn't until middle school before she told me that she used to have a crush on me, much to my legitimate shock.

[@SolitudeStarer]

The military's man menagerie of memories. As a veteran I lol'd while driving. Great stories. I love this format.

[@whatdoyouwantfromme8875]

I once had a guy break up with me by introducing me to his new girlfriend, who promptly dumbed him like a week later and then he asked me to date him again. I still think about that and it's been literally so long since then but it's so funny

[@angelspiritfoxx]

This is in highschool, I'm currently in college. I had this guy friend, who I was nice to in the beginning. I was brought up to be polite with people, and so I was polite to him. We'd discuss Pokemon and what we liked... He was nice at first, and I didn't think nothing of it. I should have listened to my lady friends, they told me he's weird and that I shouldn't interact with him. I eventually took their advice as he got really creepy around me, he'd say: "oh you don't have a place to sit? You can sit here." Gesturing to his lap... One of my female friends called him out on that, and had me go sit on her own lap. ( She's very nice, and protective as the creepy guy always did this.) I remember I was talking with a guy friend ( who I still talk to) the creepy guy tried to push himself into the conversation with my guy friend. That annoyed me, deeply. I told him " no, that I'm busy" but he wouldn't listen, so I quickly left. The creepy guy also said that his mom? Grandma? thought I was his partner. Ew. (I'm a transguy by the way, during highschool I was a she. Now I'm a he, and happy to be a he.)

[@DrRockor]

I have heard that people do get marked as dead by social security and its a pain in the ass to get fixed. From my understanding, it happens when someone of the same name dies usually. I am, however, pretty sure they don't just put you down as DOA when they are still trying to revive you and its pretty easy to just not fill the paperwork if you do get revived

[@MizukiUkitake]

The story about the guy following you to class and trying to talk... that was me in middle school. I mean, not literally, but that's what I did. And high school. It's the sign of someone DESPARATE for human connection. Nobody else will talk to them, so they'll follow you like a puppy trying to befriend you. It makes me really sad to hear about this guy, because I've been exactly where he is. I still am. He was lonely. Likely no other friends at school. Possibly autistic.

[@Karin029_]

I had a similar experience to your first story. I learned from another old friend that he's a creep and would talk to her in ways that made her uncomfortable while knowing she had a boyfriend. I told him to stop talking to me or I would ask my boyfriend to talk to him :I I think I handled that harshly but I didn't know how to say that I wanted to stop talking completely. He'd message me like 4 or 5 times a dayyyyyy as soon as we met

[@carbonatedsoda6556]

TWO VIDEOS PRACTICALLY BACK TO BACK Edit: and Lissylocke characters I’m crying

[@0gammag0]

I had moved from my first home when I was ten and had to attend school at the elementary nearer to my new house. In fifth grade I was chilling on the bars (I could go on and on about those things lol) and for some reason a group of the popular/talkative folks were running towards me, being led by a sporty dude I’ve never met before. He hopped onto the bars and was all like, “hey, wanna be my Valentine?” Before I could answer, the folks chasing him got all like, “that means you’re dating” and whatnot. Me, being ten years old in a brand-new school quickly declined because I wasn’t ready for a relationship

[@threadyprawn8944]

I also had the "Hey lol would it be funny to ask that person out?" Thing happen to me, but at least declining them would also be an even more embarrassing thing for them because not even the weird or quiet kid would go out with them.

[@everett9199]

"I'm cringe and I'm free" resonated so hard with me. I think I really needed to hear that today.

[@dpeterson5630]

my Weird Guy Experience (tm) was with one of my coworkers. We worked at a dining room in a retirement community (basically a small restaurant!) I was almost 20, and this guy was barely 17. He was a standard "guy who thinks he knows more than everyone else and is a terrible combo of the nice guys and I am very badass subreddits". I had been working at that place for almost three years at that point, and he just started. He IMMEDIATELY started constantly trying to get my attention by ordering everyone around and being generally obnoxious (I know because he told me). He would try to talk to me as much as possible and never about work, always random personal shit while we were on the clock and always busy. Even during slow times I would be cleaning or restocking things, and he'd follow me around or wait for me to come back from my task. When he started making comments about my looks, getting way too close/"accidentally" bumping into me, and asking if I was dating anyone, I started actually avoiding him. He was never particularly rude, just weird and creepy enough it was off-putting. I started trying to make sure I'd have another server on the floor with me if he was there, just generally weirded out by him. I was glad when I went back to college, since I was out of state and only worked when I was home. During that year I figured out I'm actually NB and cut my hair (previously super long) and stopped wearing a lot of makeup. Very fun, we love growth and progress! But eventually I had to go back home, and back to work. When I got there, the guy immediately started up the old routine of follow me around, talk my ear off, and get to close. One of the last times I acknowledged him was when I was sorting silverware and he came up next to me and went "You were prettier with long hair." and I almost flipped. After that he started getting more generally annoying, even to other girls we worked with, so I went to my boss who was a super chill lady and was like "this dude is being creepy and also I Am An Adult And He Is Not" and my boss was like "oh yeah that's not good huh" and got him transferred to work in a different building. I never saw him again, and I don't mind.

[@studiom5858]

Can (sadly) relate to having guys asking me out as a joke Often In middle school It made me dislike/distrust getting compliments and stuff :3 Nice art tho 👉👈

[@iamnill_real]

its so true that YA romantic stuff becomes so much creepier when it's done without reciprocation. Learned that the hard way about secret admirer notes.

[@cheffyrah-rah985]

So- here’s my story- There’s this guy who used to sit next to me in my class, who I could tell had a crush on me right away. So, I like girls, BUT, It was kind of flattering to know someone had developed such a fast crush! AND THEN I FOUND OUT HE WAS legally an adult. I am NOT. And, Because of the class I’m in, I already knew that mentally he wasn’t an adult, but STILL. So, That made me uncomfortable QUICK. Especially sense he would out right move his chair as close to mine as he could without someone calling it out, and would put his computer on MY DESK. So I would tell him to get out of my space (my excuse was “We’re in a pandemic and You aren’t wearing a mask!” Because I have anxiety-) so I eventually I asked to change seats, so Now I’m just allowed to sit wherever I want. BUT! The last time I was at school, He got up from his desk and sat right next to where I was sitting and I just tried to ignore him. And that’s all I got for now- He’s a genuinely nice person, And I’m sure he meant no harm, I was just uncomfortable.

[@bavettesAstartes]

You should absolutely tell him that. It is hard, it could hurt his feelings, but it is the best thing you could do for him.

[@valentine8409]

Same. There's this guy in one of my classes that asked me out and then I found out is 26 (I'm 17). I limped my wrist at him SO MANY TIMES and he didn't get it. I ended up just telling him I'm not into guys and he hasn't talked to me since!

[@numberone5354]

Idk if ur still in a class with him, but from what u said about him not thinking like an adult and what type of class ur in, if this goes any further you should tell him outright to leave you alone, he might not register subtle hints like you moving away, pls be safe friend!

[@cheffyrah-rah985]

@@numberone5354 Yeah. I’ll try that if he tries to do anything like flirt or something. Thanks!

[@valentine8409]

@@numberone5354 I got pretty lucky, after I told him I'm not into guys he moved to the back of the class and hasn't said a word to me

[@BumbleTus]

Oh man I'm the same way with the simple questions frying my brain, I cannot multitask. I could be asked "hey whats 2+2" ...... I don't flippin know. Really love the style of your lines and coloring on this one. Watching these is always so inspiring, makes me wanna go DRAW EVERYTHING. And thank you for sharing your uncomfortable stories for our entertainment lol

[@LumosVeil]

Her: “Something something something, but I can’t do that because I’m *legally dead.”* Me: “What now? The- the what now?”

[@xxweepingdalekxx]

the types of men you meet on tinder are so special and not in a good way.

[@lilymoon9659]

10/10 comment...???/10 username. Is it possible to have that many words

[@the_mystic_oso]

The “Good morning,beautiful” thing just made me freak out. BLEGH!! Hope you don’t deal with anymore creeps like that.