What's the cringiest thing you've done to impress a crush?

[@tetragonopterus]

I think I’ve heard that poem before, it probably went like, “knuckles is red, sonic is blue, would you like to press start and be my player two?”

[@lavender9844]

Depending on the age of the person writing it, it could be a little bit cute or deeply uncomfortable.

[@Matt_Rose]

WE GOT IT! Any follow-up verses to this welcome and encouraged 🦔

[@Dark_Flame_Master]

Oooh that’s actually quite nice. 😌 Though I never played a Sonic game before…

[@hgfhgfh6048]

​@@Matt_Roseonda

[@probes-arealone]

​@@Matt_Rosematthew

[@dylannoah123]

tried to impress a girl in middle school by writing a song about her and showed it to her. she turned around and bragged to her friends that she had a song written about her. we did not date.

[@PajamaPantsStudios]

I genuinely think she didn’t understand, and is probably mortified in hindsight to this day

[@demo2823]

She probably was trying to brush it off and make it not-awkward by showing pride in that it exists but not directly acknowledging how bad you had it for her for writing it.

[@NoriMori1992]

If she thought it was brag-worthy then it sounds like she appreciated it. Why didn't you date?

[@QuokkaWaka]

​@@NoriMori1992 I don't think that's how it works man 🤣😅

[@chocolatwo4504]

I would brag too ngl

[@carol2240]

The guy who splashed petrol all over himself for his 8 year old crush shows determination and stupidity at the same time. I respect that

[@Noperison]

Lol

[@VelociraptorAnimations]

IDK why but when I got to that part, the first thing I thought of was an image in my head of them accidentally touching a candle and then bursting into flames...

[@exotic1405]

​@@VelociraptorAnimationsx-men

[@TerrifiedTrombonistGabi]

His worst nightmare is a lighter

[@carlycarmine3858]

Sounds like something Homer Simpson would do 😂😂😂

[@mylifewastaken]

sometimes self confidence is a truly horrendous thing

[@GeraldTheFrogg]

see us introverts have got it figured out, just don’t have any

[@macorwindows754]

@@GeraldTheFrogg legendary comment

[@Teacup44]

@@GeraldTheFrogg yes but then when you actually need to talk to someone

[@RemoveThisTrashLetMeSeeNames]

If the person is actually self confident he won't care about how cringe the thing he did was.

[@sigmamale4147]

Self confidence =/= delusion

[@LoesungFeuer5]

"Hear ye, hear ye! Art thou single?" Isn't cringe. This. Is *art*

[@peggedyourdad9560]

I love fantasy roleplay so I would accept this and reply in kind.

[@LoesungFeuer5]

@@peggedyourdad9560 ... I love that this statement comes from a person with the username "pegged your dad"

[@QuokkaWaka]

​@@LoesungFeuer5 Damn ig the medieval roleplay worked on him 😞

[@LoesungFeuer5]

@@QuokkaWaka Hear ye, hear ye! May thou allow me to peg thou father?

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@LoesungFeuer5 lol, nice one

[@MissGreenTeaLady]

I was a wingwoman for my best friend once. I encouraged her to write a love poem for her crush. It read: "Here's a squirrel, here's a possum, there's a girl who thinks you're awesome." It did not work.

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

Honestly tho that would have worked for me

[@QuokkaWaka]

Maybe would've worked for me if she picked something other than a squirrel for the first line, it's just such a C tier animal 😮‍💨

[@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514]

@@QuokkaWaka turtle?

[@syedarizvi7290]

the poem is so cute

[@WeevilLover9000]

​@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514 Nah a dinosaur

[@BenTheFren]

Honestly, Matt Rose could read a legal document for 10 hours, and we’d all watch it.

[@encryptedatrest]

Yessir.

[@jameslasseigne8781]

I mean- you`re not wrong.

[@angelcalico2581]

Yeah I'd be down

[@thirtytw0]

dont give him ideas.

[@demetriam2408]

He should read driver's manuals

[@myaursus247]

The cupcake one is quite silly when you hear the thought process behind it, but even if their crush didn't end up reciprocating their feelings, they probably got pretty popular because of it. Seems like a total win in my eyes

[@haroeneissa790]

Yeah. But maybe he never even new that someone was interested in him in the first place. We don't know if he ever found out.

[@cheeze588]

It’s actually pretty wholesome

[@wolfnebulae]

"She was Swedish not French" I DIED INSIDE, singing opera is not easy, that poor man who learned how to pronounce all those words and sing to only find out she's not even French 😭😭

[@Kat-mu8wq]

Only an American would not be able to tell the difference between a French and a Swedish person. 😂 they are nothing alike.

[@NoriMori1992]

@@Kat-mu8wq This doesn't even make any sense as a statement. Culture is a big influence, but it's not such a big influence that EVERY French person and EVERY Swedish person are so different that they can always be reliably distinguished just based on personality! But even if they were, how could ANYONE from the Americas (not just the US!) be expected to tell the difference, if they've never met either one before and therefore don't know what either one is like? And same question if you were actually talking about accents. Can any random European reliably tell the difference between a Canadian and an American, without asking? Should I make fun of them if they can't? Should I say "oNlY a eUrOpEaN wOuLdN't bE aBlE tO tElL." Even if it were true, it would be an asinine thing to say, because why would anyone expect any different?!

[@eh86055]

B-but French is the language of love??

[@Sly2BandOfThievesIsTheBestSly]

1. Almost all points you made were dumb. 2. I can tell the difference between a canadian and american accent, however it's not the same because Swedish and French are vastly different, and aren't at all the same language lmao@@NoriMori1992

[@myaursus247]

Well... I bet she was still very impressed regardless

[@azurehanyo]

I tried kicking the hat off of my then-crush some 17 years ago whilst we were at work and ended up kicking him in the head by mistake. I was his manager at the time, and obviously very mature and refined. We have been married since 2008, so I think it was a success.

[@hoshitoshi]

LMAOO, nice one....... clearly this is the secret "impress crush" tactic out there 'cause it worked

[@starryskies0]

LOL

[@zaidlacksalastname4905]

Men will go along with this because it's the only positive thing that happened to them in the last 8 years lol. Lovely story.

[@addysart5027]

Beautiful 😂

[@alishaanimations3058]

LMAO AWW

[@Jupiter-T]

In high school, I mailed my crush a series of notes that chronicled the story of a clown criminal (all sent without return addresses or signatures). It was supposed to be comedic, not scary. But thinking back, if I had received any kind of mysterious notes about clowns, I would have been terrified. The bad news: I ended up confessing that the clown notes were sent by me. We did not date. The good news: He didn't get mad or even seem creeped out. Years later I learned from a friend that clowns were one of his favorite things in high school (I did not know this). What luck, honestly.

[@hoshitoshi]

LMAOOOOO DAMN OKAY.. me personally, i would got CRAZY over a mysterious criminal clown, 10/10

[@impishrebel5969]

I have to ask. What possessed you to send anyone criminal clown notes. Like, who even thinks about this.

[@CottonCandySharks]

The fact that he liked clowns and you didn't know this yet sent him clown stories means you two were destined for each other. Very sad to hear you didn't date!

[@TheMoon_ishere]

Man these ARGs are getting crazy

[@Jupiter-T]

@@impishrebel5969 I was a very strange teenager (but mostly harmless). In my head, I thought sending him a love confession (or like, just talking to him about it) was way worse than sending literally ANYTHING else. Not sure exactly why I settled on clowns - it's puzzling even to me because I really don't remember! I have plenty more examples of my embarrassing young self being embarrassing, but seeing how so many people have somehow seen this comment, I think I'll refrain from sharing lol

[@deusdamnit]

The best thing about most of these is that they're only really cringey because of secondhand shame. If they had worked, it would at worst be a quirky story. But, because they're left open-ended or outright describe the failure, we default to assuming that they didn't work, and it makes us cringe in embarrassment of that rejection on behalf of the redditor. It's beautiful.

[@ladyofsealand8]

Someone I used to be friends with wrote a love poem and talked about his blue eyes. His eyes were, in fact, not blue.

[@Not_PossibIe]

what a shame writing the poem loll

[@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514]

LOL

[@Bellabeebearee]

I did the same thing in elementary but a song 😭

[@Kat-mu8wq]

Is his eyes hazel? Don't reciet the song from Famous Last Words - the show must go on pt1 😂

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

That reminds of a bit from an episode of some show I watched with my sister when we were kids. I remember none of the context, but one character told another character: “Your eyes sparkle like the ocean.” The other character replied: “My eyes are brown.” The first character, without missing a beat, corrected himself: “Your eyes sparkle like the Hudson River.”

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

I wasn’t exactly trying to impress this guy, per se, but this is definitely the most embarrassing thing I did to/in front of a crush. I was seventeen years old, in a summer theater program for adolescents. The program was doing two plays. They would perform separately for most of the run, but on opening night they’d perform together: one would perform, then there’d be an intermission, then the other would perform. The play I was in doesn’t matter for the purpose of this story. What matters is that the other play was a musical about pirates, and I had a massive crush on the boy who played Blackbeard. The thing was, despite him playing Blackbeard, he had blond hair. The plan was that he would use spray hair dye to make his hair black for the show. Anyway, on opening night, my crush and I were the first two actors to arrive. I asked the directors if there was anything I could do to help, since I was early, and they asked me if I could spray this boy’s hair. Now, I had never spray-dyed anyone’s hair before. I had no fucking clue what I was doing, but my stupid seventeen-year-old self was too excited about being alone with her crush to admit it. Seventeen-year-old me thought: “eh, you just spray it on his hair, right? How hard could it be?” This boy’s hair did end up black, but so did about half of his face. After what felt like hours, but was probably only about fifteen minutes of wet paper towels, baby wipes, frantic apologies from me, and jokes about blackface from the other actors who were arriving, we got his face mostly clean-until he put on his costume and the dye smeared again. He wasn’t mad at me, but I still feel bad about it four years later.

[@Cobra-yo7fx]

You’re cringe lol.

[@midnightlewolf8339]

oh my goodness lolol

[@kawaiilotus]

i mean pirates look all dirty and bedraggled anyway?

[@Sire77PG3D]

Not the craziest, but lives rent free in my head nonetheless. In 4th grade, there was this hot new girl who was the only girl who would play tag. So I ended up tryharding in freeze tag to impress her. It ended with me sprinting at mach 5 around a corner, smashing straight into the girl. She scraped both her knees. I just stood there in shock.

[@teetree6661]

Honestly that isn't even on you, using spray on hair dye for a school play was a bad idea from the start. 100% would've still happened had someone else done it.

[@naolucillerandom5280]

It wasn't THAT cringe, but it was a bit creepy in retrospect. In middle school I sneaked into my crush's classroom during recess and filled her backpack with like a bucket worth of paper flowers and a 4 verse poem (that barely rhymed) folded like a little book. Thinking back, I felt bad and embarrassed about it for a while, but a couple years later she randomly messaged me saying she found it in between some other old stuff and felt nostalgic about it. So it ended well, I guess.

[@acelophobicindividual8924]

Being very _something_, probably ocd, I had done a lot of things over the course of 5 years, including (but not limited to) begin to learn a (specific) language, trade candy, follow hobbies...I didn't ever show my feelings before I was gently declined through ghosting, I believe... The thing that I did that relates to this is folding beautiful little silver origami roses with a leaf out of gum wrappers for her. I liked origami, so it was on-brand, but I handed her/showed her one that she gave back, and the others got stolen by someone who had assumed that they were worth a lot less than the craftsmanship gave them... She was very pretty and nice, and pretty cool, but I think I destroyed one of her closest friends, that being me, and that is mainly the lasting sorrow from that relationship.

[@kelen_tate]

​@@acelophobicindividual8924as someone with OCD and autism spectrum disorder, that's not very much like OCD, ASD on the other hand.. 😂

[@Adampeachey2024]

Jesus loves you!

[@palomaelegante]

​@@acelophobicindividual8924That seems pretty sweet, it's a shame it didn't work

[@acelophobicindividual8924]

@@kelen_tate yeah, that reply was two weeks ago...I don't remember why I included that. That kind of adoration probably wouldn't actually reflect any of the handful of possible disorders/spectrums that I may have one of...

[@sunfurycommenting1013]

I have sort of the reverse story. In high school, a friend told me a guy in my class liked me, and seeing as I wasn't interested and had the social skills of a potato, my reaction was to immediately get up, walk over to him at his computer, and proceed to tell him I'm honored but not interested. To his credit, he took it well and I sat back down. But then I wondered if the message really got across because I could never let things go and I have the tendency to be redundant and hammer home every point I feel I need to make, so I got up and did it again five minutes later. Yeah... I didn't realize how bad this must have been until later when I actually worked on getting my social skills from potato to something a bit more viable, so I finished high school long before I understood that declining a crush, twice, in a row, in a full classroom, was probably a terrible thing to do to someone's self-confidence. I also never knew his name or just forgot it. Guy from Intro to Multimedia class in the mid-2010s, if you're reading this somehow, I'm so so sorry about that and I hope you forgot it happened because I never will 🤦‍♀

[@averagespark862owo7]

He never forgot.

[@prettyfuldancingirl]

Poor dude 😂

[@sunfurycommenting1013]

@@averagespark862owo7 Unfortunately you are probably right

[@sunfurycommenting1013]

@@prettyfuldancingirl Yep, definitely would not be the best high school experience. The regret is there.

[@averagespark862owo7]

@@sunfurycommenting1013To be fair, it would probably be a memory forever burned into his brain that’s a mix of embarrassment and pride, since he managed to take it like a champ.

[@UhOhItsDorian]

A friend once asked me how to tell their crush they liked them. I, in my infinite 16yo wisdom, told them to present them with a potato, and if they think you’re a complete freak then they weren’t the right one anyway, but if they take it in stride you’re in the right ballpark. Shortly afterwards they brought ME the potato… and I had entirely forgotten the prior conversation. They spent all day having an internal panic about what this could possibly mean and eventually outright told me that night. Three and a half years later, they presented me with a ring wedged in a potato when they asked me to marry them. I cannot wait to exchange potatoes at our wedding.

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

That's so fucking cute

[@xX.not_bellaXx]

that’s so sweet, congratulations :)

[@mvutali]

Congrats haha

[@feralforestfae5439]

that's adorable tho, congratulations ^^

[@jacobhoward8689]

Pov: You're Irish

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

We were both good at math, so i spent hours making a desmos graph asking her to the school dance, all surrounded in a heart

[@Xnoob545]

Oh hell yeah!

[@theletter_f]

KZbin name checks out

[@jackeroni216]

did this work

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

@@jackeroni216 Well she said yes to the dance, but as friends. Then there was a whole thing where i thought she liked me and i told people we were going together (bc they asked, i wasn't bragging or anything lol) and she got really mad at me for telling people bc they thought she liked me and were asking her about it. So yk not the best situation. We're friends now tho so at least i didn't kill the friendship lmao.

[@pinetreegang5232]

I second this

[@thatnerdyouknow6378]

Every time Matt says “Analog Emoji” instead of “Emoticon” i die a little bit inside

[@oddcrafter1270]

Same :(

[@AegisGaming99]

@@oddcrafter1270 analog sad face emoji

[@Danka42]

@@AegisGaming99 >:(

[@scientificapple69]

@@Danka42 analog angry face emoji

[@NoriMori1992]

Same 😂

[@Dervraka]

When I was thirteen, I wrote some girl I had a crush on a page of sappy poetry where I compared her eyes to emeralds and talked about her flowing golden hair. Only good thing was, I wasn't brave enough to sign it. So I stuck it in her locker. Next class I saw her reading it, I was getting ready to get up and declare I was the author when she called a group of her friends over and they spent a good fifteen minutes reading it outload to the entire class and laughing their arses off and talking about what a desperate doofus the boy must have been who wrote it.

[@ManEatingTiger]

Jesus Christ, you dodged a bullet

[@GoodOlJenkinsYT]

This is why I am NOT sending or telling my crush anything.

[@imMoRTal0722]

@@GoodOlJenkinsYTu still should if they react as an asshole u dogded an fucking nuke anyway so its an win win

[@You-vv1xv]

@@GoodOlJenkinsYT just pull them out of the group and confess to them, maybe a simple "hey so i just wanted to tell you i like you" or what i did "hey you seem pretty interesting can i get your number" or something along those lines, you pull something like that ofc they'll poke fun of the note because there isn't a person in front of them. Almost every girl will be smart enough to keep to themselves or at least not talk bad about someone that they know is real.

[@You-vv1xv]

damn, that sucks. To be fair, what did you expect though, middle school girls are frickin brutal unless you confess to them straight up they will make hella fun out of pretty much everything. Best case scenario is they keep it and throw it away later or just immediately throw it away. You just have to tell them straight up. That way they won't pull something like that. But even so it still does sound like the extreme end of things, you dodged a bullet

[@ajwest5569]

I've done too many cringe worthy things in my life to try to impress people, but none really stand out. What does stand out to me is the time I was in 5th grade and a classmate's flirting with me completely went over my head. I was in this program for accelerated learning or something like that, and aforementioned classmate and I were sitting side by side at the computers in the classroom working on some sort of research problem. We were friends and often talked and joked around, so I didn't think much of what happened. At some point, he stopped working and tapped me on the shoulder. When I turned to look at him, he started quietly and shyly singing "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction. Nearly immediately, I blurted out "Oh my gosh I love this song!" and began singing with him. A few of our classmates who knew the song even sang with us for a bit. I do recall him seeming a little upset afterwards, but I wasn't sure why. My autistic ass just thought we were having a fun time being kids singing popular songs. This happened in 5th grade and I was a college student when I finally realized that the dude wasn't acting shy and nervous because he was singing in front of other people, but because he liked me. I wad recounting this story to a friend who had attended that school with us who immediately commented, "Oh yeah! He had a crush on you. Don't you remember?" I did not remember. I never even thought that in the first place. The name of the song should have been a dead giveaway

[@awildnoviceappears]

Oof to the poor guy.. tho to be fair, I probably would've done the same thing 😅

[@dictatorofcanada4238]

Flirting in 5th grade???

[@weird_art_kid]

I would’ve sang along too lmao…

[@palomaelegante]

"none of them stand out" * proceeds to tell one that stands out *

[@heyjude6680]

​@@dictatorofcanada4238my first proper crush was in year 4 when i was around 8 or 9

[@JunohNebula]

I won't lie, I find the knight fighting a dragon drawing one to be a cool concept. It's a bit cheesy but sometimes that's also endearing.

[@Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal]

Yeah! Honestly In my ( very aromantic) mind that is something that I, if I was interested would say yes to

[@atlantic85]

Sort of thing I wish I’d done instead of try to ask her out in front of all my friends, get a friend to do the talking and run away out of embarrassment.

[@jujuoof174]

Honestly? If someone did that to me I wouldn't even hesitate, I am a lesbian but who cares anymore no matter the gender I already love them

[@Veilwing]

if someone asked me out like that, they're literally the one

[@prestoncole1862]

“art thou single” is the best thing I’ve ever hears

[@tigerlover2853]

Building someone’s names out of legos is top tier flirting if you ask me.

[@andreaa.4446]

no one has done anything to impress me in my years of school, just sexual harrassment. i wouldve accepted any of these (other than the dognapping)

[@tigerlover2853]

@@andreaa.4446 Damn, I’m sorry to hear about how the people in your school have treated you. I hope you’re able to mentally recover and that this doesn’t happen in the future

[@andreaa.4446]

@@tigerlover2853 dont feel bad, im fine. Being asexual helps i guess. i just wish someone went out of their way for me instead of stupid comments

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

⁠@@andreaa.4446can’t expect anyone to go out of their way for you if you don’t go out of your way for anyone else. I have experience 💀

[@subl1maze]

im srry, DOGNAPPING? what the hell is it with people doing crazy stunts bc they have crushes??

[@notbob727]

'Hear ye, hear ye! Art thou single?' Is probably the best thing I've ever heard.

[@Orange_Licorice]

Ive only had one crush. Ever. So i did this for him. Found his favorite song, memorized all the lyrics. At lunch one day, I climbed up onto the auditorium stage and in the most beautiful voice i had (extremely off key), started singing, “EvEryBoDY WANtS to RulE tHe WoOOoOoRlD!” The whole thing. In front of my entire school. Learned my lesson that day.

[@bobmcgod5214]

You clearly have the right taste if his favourite song is Everybody Wants to Rule the World. I would say yes if someone did that for me.

[@NoriMori1992]

Why'd you learn your lesson? Were you teased? How'd the boy react?

[@Orange_Licorice]

@@NoriMori1992 he didnt react and tried to stay away from me. And i was made fun of, yes.

[@mightbejao5707]

Your crush had hella good taste tho

[@Daniel..............]

got so traumatized that you never had a crush again

[@beek.4860]

4:52 When I was a high school sophomore a girl from drama club did the same thing. It was about her getting married to one of her friends for a school project (???) and getting fake pregnant with his fake baby, and her True Love (the guy playing the lead in drama that year, who had turned her down IRL multiple times) getting jealous and finally realizing his love for her. She sent it to multiple people, some of whom were in it. It was written entirely in comic sans.

[@amateurvacuum]

What

[@beek.4860]

​@@amateurvacuum Trust me, I felt the same way reading it. It included the line "connected their lips" multiple times, and for some reason the love interest's mom showed up in half the scenes. "What" is the only possible accurate reaction.

[@LowIntSpecimen]

​@@beek.4860 *What*

[@QuokkaWaka]

I mean honestly that's kinda fire if it was ironic. Uncomfortable, sure. Creepy, absolutely. But I respect it

[@beek.4860]

@@QuokkaWaka It was not ironic. It was dead serious. This girl did not have an ironic bone in her body. She genuinely could not fathom that it was uncomfortable and creepy. But my God, was it hilarious.

[@Ex0tic_Cat_nah]

… I did a cartwheel. It didn’t work.

[@tibby4503]

man

[@theworstspeedrunner]

Then you didn't do a cartwheel

[@MaceDeMarco2010]

Oof

[@Matt_Rose]

You know what might work though? Two cartwheels...

[@tibby4503]

@@Matt_Rose matt rose

[@swiftpoolmakeslol]

I wasn’t trying to win the girl over in this story- I _was_ the girl (yay). This boy who absolutely loved me started going to the same church as me, solely because I was. I got sick for a while and missed about three or four services. This was kids church, by the way. One day my mom came in my room and said “hey, why is there a boy trying to give you a gift for Valentine’s Day?” I knew exactly who it was, and that following Sunday, the boy went up on stage _in front of everyone_ and gave me the gift. *in front of everyone.* Mind you, there was a whole 30 minutes to an hour before the service where he could have given me the gift, but no. He waited until story time, and then gave me a box (a big one too) filled to the brim with Hershey Kisses and a stuffed elephant. He later gave me a ring.

[@willowwilliams498]

thats actually kinda cute.

[@MochaMintz]

Mmm delicious

[@ViolentSillyGirl]

Did you...know him?

[@swiftpoolmakeslol]

@@ViolentSillyGirl define knowing somebody

[@MLBedits4U-bc1sp]

how do you not just slap him right there? bro id be pissed off if someone decided to confess to me infront of everyone in my church, thats really embarrassing

[@alison7989]

My mom broke her wrist while trying to impress her high school crush. I don't remember any times I significantly embarrassed myself while impressing my crush, but there was one time where I tried to be closer with my crush by ever so slightly touching his hand mid conversation, to which he violently jerked back and yelled "don't TOUCH me!" We were in 4th grade Edit: And when he found out I had a crush on him, him and his friend circled around me, he slowly approached me in the playground, smiling and shaking his head, saying my name... whilst cracking his knuckles like he was about to beat me up

[@voidbite]

That kind of seems like how an autistic person would react, as someone with asperger, when someone, like family, touches me, I have the same reaction, without the anger, although I am annoyed when they do that, I'm not a psychiatrist though, so I can't give diagnosises, but I can atleast say that much, because that might explain it. (Autistic people have that jerking back reaction to light touch.)

[@demo2823]

Or just cooties.

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

​@@voidbiteI do that and i'm not autistic, so it could just be a you thong

[@NoriMori1992]

Oooof

[@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514]

@@voidbite bro really said a very contriversial word for reffering to hsi disability :skull:

[@LucidMlem]

Video fifty of requesting misspelled tattoos. We have reached a long-awaited milestone, ever since "Who is THIS in my Contacts?" I have been trying my best to not miss a single video, I kept going with positive numbers, negative numbers negative omega minus numbers, and eventually, I started an impossible to end streak: numbers in the form of text. The beginning of said streak was on the 266-day-old video "Guess the Video Game from the Emojis!" You got kind of close with the "Tattoos Lost In Translation" but the tattoos in question were actually (as the title said) lost in translation, and not actually misspelled, a concerningly common example of a misspelled tattoo could be "No Regerts" and not "Small Barbecue Grill" in Chinese. Perhaps the misspelled tattoos could come off as a sequel to Tattoos Lost In Translation. As a matter of fact, I think Tattoos Lost In Translation actually was fulfilling the request of misspelled tattoos, it was just... It was... ...lost in translation. (I waited like 3 minutes until posting this to make it seem like I didn't just copy and paste it)

[@IconicDuckling489]

ok this is dedication - we need this now

[@Mollytov840]

yes please

[@LucidMlem]

So glad my halfway point is getting some attention

[@Matt_Rose]

No joke: I think about you, and this suggestion, often. It will come eventually. Your dedication is unreal and I am beyond grateful 😊

[@RealHoodShit999]

I LOVE YOU MATT ROSE PLEASE DO THIS FOR HIM

[@alchemy5750]

Made my crush a cgi animated short movie to confess. Ended up being like 6 minutes. We watched it together and she said she liked it but didn't get the point (guess it was too artsy or something). So I just confessed right there by regular means. That was 3 months of work out the window right there.

[@TheRenegade...]

Was it at least good on its own merits

[@alchemy5750]

@@TheRenegade... No, definately not good. There were tons of technical mistakes and my usual issue of expecting impossible from myself and imagining things that are just too big for a single-person project instantly decapitated the whole movie. But hey, I actually really enjoyed the process though and it was a good learning experience.

[@notnowboi7795]

Hey could you upload it to KZbin? I wanna see how good your animating is and what that animation is about (I understand if you don’t wanna it makes total sense to me so don’t feel obligated to)

[@Mayonaiese]

What did she say after?

[@espelhodasconstelacoes]

Could you upload it?

[@MamaMOB]

That last guy really knew that last girl.

[@chrishagar2183]

I was trying to figure out how to ask out my now-wife, and I was nervous at the time. A mutual friend of ours knew I liked her, and he tried to talk to me about it. This culminated in him, sitting in an armchair, across from me in a stranger's basement (there was a bearskin rug, this feels like an important detail), telling me to "Pretend I'm her, and try asking her [him] out." After about 20 seconds of me staring at him and trying to say something, he realizes that this is weird, and deadpan says "Is this uncomfortable? Do you want to stop?" Up until this point, he had proceeded as though this were a perfectly normal thing for two straight guys to do.

[@llamasugar5478]

This is just like a scene from _The Hard Way_ with Michael J Fox and James Woods. Fox is an actor who wants to study a tough-guy cop for a movie role. Woods is the tough guy, who thinks Fox’s character is an entitled asshole. Anyway, in one scene, the cop and actor are talking about how the cop has this crush that he just doesn’t know how to express himself with. They end up doing a hilariously awkward role-play.

[@theboxygenie]

he was your armchair therapist

[@smallsingingelephants]

there's this one scene in my favorite anime that's just like this. i did not know ppl did that in real life.

[@iamme2739]

This is just about exactly the plot of the animation "Expiration Date".

[@NoriMori1992]

⁠@@iamme2739 HAHAHAHA man, that's an exaggeration if you're talking about the entire video, but a pretty fair description of the "SEDUCE ME!" scene 😂

[@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit]

Knuckles is red and Sonic is blue, he ain't wrong.

[@dogninja0180]

And unlike sonic, knuckles doesn’t chuckle

[@uselessinformation1988]

@@dogninja0180 I almost forgot that there was a character on Sonic name Knuckles. That makes sense. I was wondering why the knuckles were red.

[@NoobryYT]

​@@dogninja0180he'd rather flex his muscles.

[@notamobilesprout4175]

@@NoobryYT BORN ON AN ISLAND

[@DreamingNightmares]

The fact someone wrote a fanfic reminded me of this one time in secondary school (it was a few years ago) where I had a crush on someome (who doesnt actually exist btw) and my friend made a fanfiction about us. It started out okay until I got to the bedroom scene. I will never be able to forget the disturbingly and overly large amount of detail my friend put into that scene...

[@sniffxy]

ayo

[@ll-sz9fl]

How do you have a crush into a non existing someone. How

[@song_of_autumne6032]

Fictional character I presume

[@DreamingNightmares]

@@ll-sz9fl that was years ago when I was a lot younger... So I have no idea... Tbh it was more like she was my favourite fictional character and I was obsessed and so people started shipping me with her and overtime I sort of believed it myself or something...? I don't remember lol

[@DreamingNightmares]

@@song_of_autumne6032 yep... She was... I'm pretty sure it's not as uncommon as it sounds actually...

[@Sina-dv1eg]

My crush had a condition that caused her to walk weirdly, like the feet would point inwards instead of forward. For some reason, I thought she would like me more if I walked the same way, so I spent an entire day trying to get everyone to believe that I had the same condition as her. When I came home, my parents asked me why the hell I was walking like that. I told them that's how I've always walked. Soon after, I realized how stupid that was and just walked normally again, and nobody ever brought it up again

[@justarandomhumann]

Lol I'm so self conscious about everything that if that happened to me, I would think the person was making fun of my condition 😂

[@ZigbertD]

When I was around 19 I sent a very bad poem and cute stuffed animal to a girl in a calculus class I had a crush on, and to whom I'd spoken about three sentences prior to this. I couldn't remember the content of the poem if I tried and wouldn't reprint it if I could. I thought the poem and fuzzy koala bear came off as romantic and adorable, but in reality came off as creepy obsessed stalker. Her boyfriend (a possibility I'd never considered) came to my dorm room and threatened to beat me up if I ever contacted her again. Probably the only reason I didn't just go to the registrars office and immediately withdraw from the university in humiliation is that I had a sympathetic roommate who was present during the beating threat and he pointed out that I probably wasn't missing much with this girl if she was the kind who chose to date a lunkheaded gorilla like that. He laughed his ass off when I told him about the poem and stuffed animal, but kind of in an admiring "You're nuts, dude!" sort of way, which actually made me feel better about it. For the rest of the semester I never looked up from my desk in calculus class again, though.

[@immabethehero1486]

Your roommate is a real one

[@NoriMori1992]

Man, on the one hand, I might be creeped out if I received that, on the other hand it's really sweet? And your intentions were so pure 😭 It makes me sad you got threatened over it. For things like this, oftentimes the problem isn't the act itself. There's nothing inherently threatening about a poem and a stuffed koala. The problem is that the act is also equally associated with guys who don't have good intentions, or who have good intentions but don't know how to act right. So when something like this happens to a girl, she has absolutely no clue which type of guy did it, which is why she might get scared.

[@ninetailedfox579121]

The first red flag is that you call koalas "bears."

[@maestro9765]

Get revenge on that guy.

[@3psilon9]

Not me, but another kid had a massive crush on this girl in fifth grade. On the day before Valentine's Day, he was looking for someone with experience to write a poem for him. Since I was really good with rhyming/poetry, he actually paid me to make a poem. I worked on it for about three hours, and I even made a "realistic" portrait of the girl that, now that I recall, looked like a Picasso drawing. I had to hide it behind a dresser so that my mom wouldn't think that I was the person who had a crush on her. Spoiler alert, almost everyone in the school knew I was paid to make a poem. Fortunately, the person's crush didn't know yet. I gave it to him, and he read it out loud to her in front of the entire class. The amount of disappointment on both of our faces when she started crying and ran out the room. He got rejected, and my poem was garbage. It was so bad that, when I met her again in 9th grade (I was homeschooled in 7th and 8th grade), I learned that she was lesbian. I then revealed that I was the person who actually made that poem, and we laughed about it. We became good friends for the rest of high school.

[@t0tallysetj1]

rare good ending

[@Garbancina]

Lol i don't think her being a lesbian had anything to do with the quality of your poem 😂😂

[@SomeCowguy]

Poem so bad she started liking women​@@Garbancina

[@Garbancina]

@@SomeCowguy lmaoo 😂💀💀

[@nyxie2877]

Don’t worry, being asked out by a boy in elementary school is a lesbian canon event

[@sophiedowney1077]

The last one makes sense to me. Last valentines day I wanted to get my boyfriend something valentine's themed without being generic or tacky (a nearly impossible task as Valentine's day is terrible). I decided to 3D print him a heart. An anatomically correct, life-sized, 3D printed human heart. (made of plastic, not actual cells, in case someone is reading this in 10-20 years when we finally have full organ printing). He loved it. It's a fun display piece.

[@kaleajohnson7414]

That's actually awesome. If someone did that for me, I'd totally date them.

[@disguisedcat1750]

The future proofing on this guy holy!!

[@sophiedowney1077]

@@disguisedcat1750 I know that someone would have been confused and a little horrified if I hadn't mentioned that it's plastic. :)

[@Brick_One_A_Lego_Story]

That's so cool. I had something similar happen to me though it didn't have anything to do with a crush. In my high school there was a tradition that boys would give a present for each girl on the Women's Day and vice versa. For the Boy's Day the girls decided to give us plastic models of the human brain (with the subtext being rather obvious). It was tongue in cheek and everyone liked it. If anyone is wondering, it was from a shop (and no real tissues were involved :) )

[@sigmamale4147]

I hope you gave him a real (harvested) human heart for this year

[@BaePlatinum]

I had a GIGANTIC crush on this guy in high school, even though I had a boyfriend (he was abusive af so i didn’t care). This guy was the star tenor and I was the star alto in our high school chorus, so I asked to sing a duet with him for our “Rock Medley,” a thing the chorus did every year where we sang 70’s-80’s songs. I picked “Smooth Criminal”… which is not a duet.

[@Porter-Pumpkim]

Apparently I was the crush in this scenario, back when I went to public school the principals daughter invited me to the popular kids group, I kept hanging out with my little group cause I wasn't interested in romance stuff and they constantly talked about crushes in that group, but she would always end up near me when we had classes together, one day she started going off about crushes again and asked me if i liked anyone, I said I thought i might be ace cause I didn't like anyone romantically but did platonically loved my friend groups, she then proceeded to try and gasslight me into being bi or pan and kept asking me if I liked her. Years later one of my friends was like "dude she was trying to flirt with you"

[@QuokkaWaka]

"Gaslight me into being bi or pan" I can only imagine what someone trying to do that would say 😭💀

[@Porter-Pumpkim]

@@QuokkaWaka oh it was weird as fuck, I still remember going "so I think I'm probably ace" and she just "so you're pan!? Omg do you have a crush on me!?"

[@STAR_WALTZ]

⁠@@Porter-Pumpkimh my gosh as someone who is pan,that is the most accurate thing- theyre always like "soooo…you like me???" like no you ugly af,you dont go around asking ever straight guy if he likes you so dont ask me 😭-

[@mixtapefilms9849]

Honestly sounds like it's a good thing that you didn't date them bc of them trynna flirt by literally gaslighting your sexuality

[@axispearl1649]

​@@STAR_WALTZ Yeah lmao as soon as I told people I was pan they just assume that means you like EVERYONE not every gender. 💀

[@LucasCrystall]

I pretended to faint on the desk and after 1 minute of holding my breath I said "sorry I fell for you" 💀 💀

[@lawnmow]

was their reaction "what"

[@LucasCrystall]

@lawnmower23 no their reaction was walking away without a word then I never saw her again

[@buttsniffer400]

💀 SKULL EMOOOOOOJIIII

[@Cylly_Jinx]

☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀 SKU-HULLL-E-MOJJJIIIIII

[@lawnmow]

@@LucasCrystall damn that must of sucked

[@rustyshackleford234]

I’ve actually never had a cringy moment like this. However, I COULD HAVE. I liked this girl, I got her number, and we became best friends. Around June of last year, I had decided that it was time to tell her that I loved her. And you know what my plan was? Asking THROUGH TEXT. When I look back at it, it would’ve been an awful way to ask a girl out. Thankfully, I chickened out, and I kept chickening out for the next 4 and a half months. I waiting so long that SHE asked me out, IN PERSON. Which really takes balls (even though she got none). Oh, and we are still really happy together!

[@demo2823]

Good. Would have been bad if you started with 'I love you.'

[@NoriMori1992]

Yay!! Hope it continues to go well!

[@rustyshackleford234]

@@NoriMori1992 awww thank you! And it should, we’ve had zero problems in the 8 months of dating each other!

[@lemagicbaguette1917]

Golly, I’m really happy for you two :D

[@iwantabigpiece]

lowkey roasting own girlfriend in the 2nd last line lmao 💀💀

[@PlagueRavenRX]

Worked in a place that had a Starbucks connected to it, so workers were always buying it. I asked crush if he liked any drinks from Starbucks. He told me his favorite. I bought him that drink almost every day we worked together. He accepted it kindly every time. I don't think he wanted them anymore, but he didn't want to tell me no. That's not even the cringiest thing, but it was definitely uncomfortable to finally say to him, "You can decline the drinks if you don't want them, it's okay." We never dated.

[@thegenevaconvention5623]

So, basically, I was absolutely OBSESSED with this boy in my orchestra class, couldn't stop thinking about him, finally decided to confess my feelings. I decided to write something and put it in his locker, but instead of writing a note that said "i kinda like you" like a normal human being, I decided to write him a TWO PAGE long poem rambling on and on about his "yElLoW-tInTeD sKiN" and his "gOrGeOuS hOoDeD bRoWn EyEs" that "gLeAm LiKe HoNeY iN tHe SuN" . Long story short, he didn't read it, wrote "return to sender" on it, gave it to one of my freinds to give to me, I cried for 2 days, and now half the school knows that I used to like him and also that I wrote him a 2 page goofy ahh poem. I honestly feel like I got the worst possible outcome. Oh, and he's in Honors English. So am I. We're gonna be in the same class next year. That should be... *fun* .

[@thegenevaconvention5623]

@jaywon3844 TURNS OUT WE'RE IN THE SAME CLASS BUT NOT DURING THE SAME PERIOD 🥳

[@cheeze588]

@@thegenevaconvention5623YEAHHH LES GOOOO

[@roxygaming5968]

You dodged a huge bullet, that "return to sender" thing is pretty much the meanest thing I've ever heard someone do.

[@You-vv1xv]

@@roxygaming5968 I mean, there's a lot worse scenarions that could happen, another dude did the EXACT same thing and the girl legit laughed at the damn poem with all of her friends gathered round. I'd say the poem idea is just a bad idea. Best case scenario is he either ignores it or throws it away.

[@You-vv1xv]

@@thegenevaconvention5623 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@thatonetransguy8216]

So, I had a psych ward romance because I kept on having mental breakdowns. This kid who roomed with me (and I lowkey had a crush on) was like "The most baller thing someone could do is swallow some orbeez and not choke." So I immediately asked for some orbeez, looked him dead in the eye and swallowed them. We proceeded to date for the next 9 months until he moved across the country.

[@robinvanderpal372]

respect dude

[@mountaindewbajablasst]

king behavior

[@sigmamale4147]

"Trans guy" "Psych ward" Checks out

[@lucaslol7962]

My computer cringed so hard from these that it blue screen'd while watching this video. Top tier content as always, thank you Matt!

[@gwashington12]

My crush asked me: "Are you a bank, because you have my interest." I broke down laughing (Edit: Oi мне so many likes, and check replies for ya'll asking questions.)

[@Kyzoned]

A classic

[@strogonoffcore]

but did you two date

[@Gio2321_]

Please answer, I’m desperate

[@ThatonePizzamaker]

Answer i beg you

[@Mayonaiese]

PLEASE

[@StainedGlassLamp]

I had a crush on a girl for a while, but she went to a different college then me. Were both in my discord server, and a lot of the time I couldn't resist talking about rhe fact that I had a crush in my server. I just wouldn't say it was her. This went on for literal months until I started talking about possibly asking her out on valentines day. She happened to post on her instagram story that she liked someone and was really sad because she was sure the person she liked didnt like her back. I was so excited about this, especially since she used "they/them" pronouns. (However, I didn't know if she was using those pronouns for me or if she was using them to keep the gender of her crush a secret, since she's bi) I wasn't really thinking so I went into my discord server freaking out since I found out my crush had a crush. Here's the thing though, I have a decent following on instagram, so I get a few hundred views on every one of my stories. I forgot that this isn't the case for most people, so I stupidly assumed she wouldn't find out I was talking about her. It turns out only two people saw that story, one of them being me. Yeah. She instantly knew. Turned I was her crush and we started dating immediately after that. She's now the love of my life.

[@annak.1667]

That’s so cute, I’m glad you’re happy together now!

[@awildnoviceappears]

That is actually adorable

[@moondraks]

realest story

[@xX.not_bellaXx]

🥹

[@mvutali]

That's adorable

[@clumpofdirt1193]

luckily never had a crush to embarrass myself in front of. definitely done some cringey things to impress my friends tho- cut my hair like them, showed off my trivia knowledge, or my drawing skills

[@Leonagraphy]

As a person who has friends, I would love to swap random trivia and have little drawing contests (even though I’m sinfully bad at drawing) with any one of them

[@NoriMori1992]

If they're nice people that seems fine. Do they like your trivia knowledge?

[@QuokkaWaka]

​@@Leonagraphy "As a person who has friends" 💀

[@thegodzillafandomsrookie5514]

@@QuokkaWaka humanity has becoem so lonelyw ere starting to say "as a person who has friends"

[@elisecode2212]

you’re aro? same

[@Cavetownmyluv]

I absolutely adore your content Matt. When my cat died I immediately thought of you and watched you right when I got home to cheer me up. You’ve helped me through a lot Matt. Thank you

[@Vince_c.3]

Rip kitty D:

[@Matt_Rose]

Sorry to hear about your cat mate, big hugs

[@j_cannot_type]

nooo im sorry to hear about your cat bro :((

[@encryptedatrest]

Aww I’m so sorry may he find peace in heaven :)

[@sleepingcryptid]

Aww I'm sorry :( it's always hard losing an animal, take care of yourself, alright?

[@khonsuthecore4788]

The last one worked bc people are weird and embracing your own weirdness and finding someone similarly weird, someone who understands, is the path to true love.

[@VimaChillyGrimmOfficial]

Once I tried to impress my crush by writing him a heartfelt email (I was 12) and linked a Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift song. Both songs were about break-ups.

[@dragonflyK12]

My "boyfriend" I had in 5th grade tried to impress me by doing a cool trick on the skating rink. He fell on his butt and awkwardly shimmied away in shame.

[@AegisGaming99]

he fell inside his butt??!!?!??! jk lol

[@dragonflyK12]

@@AegisGaming99 lol I meant on I fixed it

[@cmat911]

I would've fallen in love right then and there 💀💀

[@dragonflyK12]

@@cmat911 ...we broke up because he was a pervert and would search up questionable things. He also was in my mom's class and said some sus things Abt her

[@cmat911]

@@dragonflyK12 sorry you had to deal with someone like that, he sounds terrible :/

[@entothechesnautknight1762]

It was the one that worked because clearly they were the only one in this thread who actually knew anything about their crush outside of a surface level. Let that be a lesson, kids and loveless adults; the best way to get a date is to get a friend first.

[@kyletheDIVA]

The “knuckles is red, sonic is blue” is how I want to be confessed to

[@kikosawa]

are you a little bit under 9 years old?

[@kyletheDIVA]

@@kikosawa I’m 10😭

[@Mintentia]

@@kyletheDIVA checks out

[@CorvidayWolfy]

I’m 16 and would also love to be confessed to like this 😭

[@demtri444]

@@CorvidayWolfyrare find here boys 😮‍💨

[@basilgeuse]

when i was in 7th grade, i tried to impress a girl by showing her how fast i could march backwards (don’t ask). i sprained my wrist as a result.

[@beek.4860]

the mental image of this has me SOBBING. like, only the hormone-addled brain of a preteen could not only come up with the concept of marching backwards really fast in the first place, but decide that it would really impress the ladies. absolutely wonderful thank you

[@beek.4860]

I went to horse camp (as one does) when I was twelve or thirteen. There was like, one boy in my entire class. His name was Colin, but in my thirteen-year-old mind he was practically Aragorn from Lord of the Rings in that scene where he whispers to the horse. I was madly in love with Colin for exactly two weeks. One day, I tried to impress Colin by tacking up the meanest horse without getting kicked. I got kicked. I did not impress Colin.

[@spencer1837]

Colin is the name of a good friend of mine. Ironically he’s allergic to horses lol.

[@chaosqueen1703]

Yk, I've been going riding to this one place for a couple months (been riding longer, just at this place a few months specifically) and ONE TIME, I saw a cute looking boy. I'm going to horse camp there this summer, and I really hope he's there.

[@AceSpadespoken]

At least it's better than having to read "connected their lips" multiple times

[@beek.4860]

@@AceSpadespoken THE CROSSOVER 😭

[@LoesungFeuer5]

How the fck did you not impress him. I'm impressed, just by your courage that's borderline to self destructive audacity. You would have gotten me with this. (Who takes the chance to get physically kicked, only to impress or flirt with someone deserves my fullest respect)

[@robbys5236]

3:59 This tattoo looks beautiful!

[@Matt_Rose]

Agreed! But big one to have done to impress a girl you didn't get 😔

[@lfroujibetmusic]

​@@Matt_Rosethis is so true Matt rose

[@ObtuseWaffle_]

Once I asked someone "Hey, are you the British museum? Because you stole my heart from its place of origin"

[@august6760]

I don’t know how cringe this is, but I’ve been told by countless people who were there that it’s the cringiest thing they ever saw in their life. I once left love notes and letters to a boy in my class for almost three months. I had/have horrible social anxiety, so actually talking to him was pretty much impossible. Some of them had poems that I wrote(I don’t think they were THAT cringe but they were written by a 15 year old so-) some of them told him stuff about me(but never so specific that it was obvious it was me) and some of them talked about stuff I knew he was going through. Everybody knew he had a secret admirer, but nobody knew it was me. He was pretty popular too, so like half the school was absolutely determined to find out who it was. I’m actually not sure how I got away with this for so long. Eventually I told my “friend” that it was me. Worst mistake of my life. The entire school knew the next day. I was bullied so much I almost had to switch schools, and I avoided my crush like the plague afterwards.

[@edgystuffretarkidnormcring330]

Those ppl were gross. I used to be extremely anxious too and I don’t see how this was cringe.

[@tsifirakiehl4250]

That’s not cringey; your “friend” was just an asshole.

[@Toomanygojis]

Are you not friends with them any more?

[@august6760]

@@Toomanygojis Thankfully no. After I confronted her she just started calling me a sl*t and a b*tch out of nowhere, so I avoided her too.

[@Toomanygojis]

@@august6760 so sorry you had go go through that..

[@lenee8959]

I developed a crush on a friend from theater. He invited me a pool party for his birthday. I dove underwater. Without thinking, I softly grabbed his waist. I then realized how weird and possibly creepy that was, so I surfaced and said, “Sorry! I didn’t mean to touch you.” He said, “Oh it’s fine.” As if he didn’t realize until I said anything. It still haunts me and I don’t why. Edit: He’s a great friend though.

[@NoriMori1992]

This sounds fine actually. Do you still have a crush? Are you gonna ask him out?

[@hannahforeman]

that sounds smooth than other comments that I have been reading before this (I literally don't know how to spell smooth right)

[@lenee8959]

@@NoriMori1992 Yeah I asked him out to homecoming. Still as friends, but it's a step.

[@lenee8959]

@Dannydolan88 Yeah 😅 Thanks

[@Barrystue]

@@lenee8959good luck champ 🙌🙌

[@nicolebiewald18]

Watching Matt absolutely read about cringe things people did to impress their crush is well all the content I was looking for..... if I was listening to a love song.

[@usernamemctypey428]

The comment above yours says "Watching Matt absolutely trash on people that did cringey things is absolutely the peak content i signed up for." Either you get off on writing broken nonsencical sentences or you are a bot.

[@erikapavedtheway]

i'm so confused by this comment

[@neizanmendez6317]

A French opera love song perhaps?

[@okraila]

“absolutely read” is a quote now

[@QuokkaWaka]

I'd love to say I absolutely read this comment, but frankly I'm not even sure if I did

[@GretgorPooper]

Wrote a bunch of poems that were much too erotic and melodramatic for our age in pizzeria napkins. We were 14 or 15 at the time. I also carved extremely melodramatic and simpy poems onto wooden desks at school, for the very same crush, several years before. Didn't get in trouble for that one, I figure, because the principal thought that I had embarrassed myself enough as it was. I was basically Milhouse back in middle/high school. Hopelessly too awkward and unattractive to notice why girls weren't into my weird romantic approach. I never carved her name in my skin with a knife, but thought about it. You'd figure that, at some point, I'd realize this shit was not working, but it took me a good ten years between elementary school and high school to realize that maybe she wasn't into me, or into my stupid romantic antics. She later came out as a lesbian, long after I stopped pining for her, and boy did I feel stupid.

[@spiderweslse1154]

I used to have an obsessive yandere and stabbed by friend in the back, making him run towards me because I had a short fuse. I, completely surprised got the principal and had to call her parents, and even that would win me over.

[@Beelzeon]

@@spiderweslse1154 100% real

[@nickkohlmann]

​@@spiderweslse1154I am.having trouble reading this for some reason

[@tothebeyond6318]

​@@spiderweslse1154delulu pro max 100%

[@PrincessJediLantern]

My childhood crush? A lot of cringy things. Maybe too many to mention. But my personal highlight would have to be whenever I’d go to my crush’s house, I would hide in her closet before I had to go, hoping my mom would give up looking for me and go home, so then I could live with my crush forever. Obviously, my mother wasn’t as dumb as nine year old me thought, and saw through my bullshit scheme every time. Edit: My brother wanted to add his. He called his crush a dog in middle school. For context, he’s a HUGE dog person, and thought that was a compliment, since dogs are cute. Edit 2: I also thought of something really cringy that this guy who had a crush on me tried to do to impress me. He would take screenshots from his favorite soap operas and movies, and photoshop both his and my face on the lead couples, and post it on Facebook for all our mutual friends and families to see. He also got really mad when I told him it was giving me the creeps and asked him to stop. Eventually had to get a restraining order. Edit 3: My mom also converted to being a Jehovah’s Witness for a good five years or so. Turns out he was a sociopath that pretended to believe whatever his victims did. When asked about it now, she tries to claim she was just “going undercover” to “figure him out” but a few weeks before she started inviting a couple of them over for Bible studies, she basically admitted she was doing this if “we have any chance to be happy together.” Sorry. I’m done now.

[@glitchyguru6468]

I- that just kept escalating

[@skoutburst672]

In 5th grade i ate an entire box of altoids mints at once to impress the girl i liked, my eyes were watering so bad but she actually seemed mildly impressed

[@bungo6000]

That last one is actually really sweet. He must have known her pretty well to know that she'd like to get something like that as a gift. Those two weirdos found each other :')

[@m310grass]

It sounds like the kind of move you don’t take unless you already know the person, either that or he got really lucky who knows

[@UnbalancedApple]

Someone conquered their fear of heights in the name of love? That's not cringy at all.

[@MotherMotherLoverr]

Matt knows how to make every Monday better. Thank you matt rose

[@name_unbekannt9976]

I didn't do it on purpose, but me and my crush are actually pretty close friends and she's quite touchy, so once she grabbed my upper arm (I don't remember why) and I just reflexively flexed my biceps. The problem? I'm probably the least muscular person you'll ever see, so she just looked me dead in the eyes and said: "Oh don't worry, you don't gotta flex to impress me, there's nothing to be impressed about" and to this day she still doesn't believe me that I didn't intend on impressing her with my long noodle arms.

[@girlyspider]

That was an insane burn from her though

[@moonjumper3624]

that statement from her was absolutely crazy ☠️

[@name_unbekannt9976]

@@girlyspider yee, and she didn't even want to roast me. I got unintentionally bodied.

[@name_unbekannt9976]

@@moonjumper3624 and yet she's still my closest friend to this day...

[@girlyspider]

@@name_unbekannt9976 Happens to the best of us

[@HelloIAmAnExist]

2:22 he got really unlucky with her donating it, but honestly, his idea is pretty fire ngl

[@Minister_for_Grass]

I mean how would she see it, she can’t really flip it over without breaking it into pieces.

[@Skyte100]

2:55 i did something following that logic. In middle school, my most awkward time, i would look at people as i walked past them because thats how the game tells you in harvest moon if your friendship value was a certain level. I regret many things in middle school.

[@P_I_G_G_A]

How old were you then

[@yin-sin]

I wrote a poem for my girlfriend and it was the corniest thing I’ve ever done. I don’t know if she still has it. We’ve been dating for three years, about to be four in November Update: still going on Update: we broke up. We’re on good terms and still friends.

[@A.The.H.]

Congrats!

[@pinetreegang5232]

Update us in November

[@NoriMori1992]

You gotta ask her, man. You just gotta!

[@yin-sin]

@@V_1sh this this the first time someone has used he/him pronouns for me. Makes my gender fluid heart happy 😊

[@notnullnotvoid]

@@V_1sh I think they probably meant "you gotta ask if she still has it". Maybe. I'm not sure.

[@Maliaiz2fab4u]

I also wrote a poem for a guy I had a crush on. He was really into edgy sonnets at the time, so I wrote one too and it was... well it was written. He rejected me but we're still good friends and I don't even know if he remembers I did it.

[@fimbles4211]

Oof not a crappy sonnet

[@axolotdraws9946]

as a person who likes poetry, how could someone actually LIKE edgy sonnets? how long ago was this? also I got the 69th like :|

[@Maliaiz2fab4u]

@@axolotdraws9946 it was less him liking them and more as an emotional output, but he was going through some stuff. But they were always in iambic pentameter 👌🏾

[@casperjokkins6668]

I played I’m with you by Vance Joy to impress a girl I liked, got completely no zoned, but the song made her friends cry. One of them ended up commissioning me for a private gig

[@storm-the-wize]

This always brings such a smile to my face. Never stop doing what you do Matt.

[@Lorraine202]

I’m an aroace woman with ASD. I was the most oblivious little high schooler when it came to love and romance. Also relevant, I was taking a medication that caused my acne to explode for about 2 years. One time a boy who sat next to me in chemistry told me “you… like could be a model, like uh if it weren’t for the acne.” The awkward comment flew right over my head and I spent the rest of the day wondering what kind of sick dare or prank that was. I told my parents at home and my dad had this look of empathetic disappointment and then I realized. And fuck it I’ll dunk on myself too. I stayed after for robotics and the president was cool so I wanted to be friends. We were working on a design for next year, but we didn’t have the props for the upcoming challenge. My oblivious virgin ass walked over to this guy with two balls I found in the closet in one hand and said “here you can use these as your test-ies” Because I was a socially inept wide eyed nerd I was trying to mimic being modern by adding “ies” at the end of a verb (like zoomies or munchies) and IN TRYING TO BE SUAVE AND SHOW I WAS A COOL FRIEND I COMPLETELY MISSED THE INNUENDO EVERYONE ELSE SAW AT A GLANCE AND I PROCEEDED TO DIE AS I REALIZED WHAT I HAD JUST DONE 2 SECONDS TOO LATE.

[@yYSilverFoxYy]

⁠@Dannydolan88Acne is temporary, beauty lasts, well …somewhat longer at least. And let’s be honest, acne doesn’t look good on photos, so he had a point. Or maybe I think that bc I’m autistic but very much romantic/sexual so it sounds like some of my own awkward attempts at complimenting ppl.😅

[@adammac.1342]

AAAH WILD AROACE!! I’m not aro (ace tho) you’re all am-ace-ing!

[@cmat911]

@@adammac.1342 valid 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

[@redhawkneofeatherman261]

I'm sure it was pretty embarrassing, which sucks, but if someone came up to me and accidentally called two balls testies, it would make me laugh (in a friendly way, not like a jeering way) and want to be friends with them honestly lmao

[@brennacoleman6815]

@@hypoluna Ain't it just? The blend of complete cluelessness and intense 'oh no here comes romo' spidey sense...

[@guanglaikangyi6054]

The puzzle thing was sweet. Way better than what I would've thought when I was a kid. Turning it over would be a pain, tho.

[@SlothOfTruth]

When I was in 3rd grade, I had a crush on one of the girls in my class. One day, she passed me a note that said "Will you marry me?" And I said yes. We got in trouble for passing notes, and the teacher read it aloud in front of the entire classroom. When the my crush talked to me later about it, she claimed she was "inviting me to her friend's wedding." That day will forever live in my head as the most cringe day of my life. And in 4th grade, I asked a different girl I liked if she wanted to be my valentine. She already had one 😢.

[@heart_locket2]

there's no depression like 4th grade depression

[@livgoodfellow8483]

Matt, I just have to thank you. I had a really bad day and my mood was just the same. Now after your video I feel so much better. You saved my evening. I wish you that you'll never step barefoot on Lego at night. :)

[@alicialexists]

When I had a crush on a high school classmate, I expected him to just know. He didn't, so I assumed he wasn't into me. I didn't know what flirting was.

[@CatafalqueBoy]

Not cringy but funny: I did a tarot reading for a friend and she’d asked about her love life and the reading was along the lines of she’d have to look for love. Turns out she just had to literally look across the table because me and her have been dating for a while now. 🥰

[@i_sayyestobiscuits]

Once my crush told me that if he were to date anyone, they would have to have watched every single episode of Adventure Time. Anyway guess what I started doing that weekend.

[@GodHarold]

Did you do it and did it work?

[@i_sayyestobiscuits]

@Harry-the-Phone-Guy Yes and no. I did it but alas it did not work out. The guy turned out the be a huge asshole lol

[@KingstonCzajkowski]

@@i_sayyestobiscuits What a surprise

[@nomoretwitterhandles]

Dunno if this counts as embarrassing, but my grandparents met at a roller skating rink when my grandpa tripped her to get her away from her date. They've been married for over 50 years.

[@frumy7745]

gramps must have been a stud

[@randomy2bhandle]

In 10th grade, I wrote my crush a poem in Google Translate Italian, and posted it for all of Tumblr to see. 🤡

[@dashyga786]

Once I just yelled in front of the class: “I’m in love with her!” Luckily, my crush was away that day. But EVERYONE told her once she came back dhsask.

[@robbys5236]

And what was her reaction once people told her?

[@dashyga786]

@@robbys5236 mostly disgust if I remember well lmao

[@NoriMori1992]

How did they know who you were talking about?

[@dashyga786]

@@NoriMori1992 I said the name of the girl out loud

[@King_James_1andLonely]

One time in high school after a particularly nasty break up with this girl I’d been dating for a year, one of my older friends did a lot to comfort and be there for me, which made me really grateful to him seeing as everyone else was… not doing that. At one point he sent me a picture of him in black and white that was very aesthetically pleasing, and I impulsively saved it. I’m an artist and I’ve always loved doing realistic portraits. I thought it would be a cool way to thank him for being such a great friend if I drew this picture of him. Anyways I showed him throughout the process, and we talked everyday anyway, and eventually he started hedging about asking about my sexuality and stuff, like “I thought you were only into girls”. I was actually starting to question this myself at the time so I gave him a vague answer, having no idea what he was getting at until he finally outright said he thought I liked him. I was so flabbergasted and had no idea what to even say. I asked why and it turned out that the dude thought I had a crush on him because I drew a fcking picture of his face? He didn’t believe me until I showed him that I had a whole sketchbook full of other people’s faces, not to mention I was still getting over my ex. And even then he still acted weird about it and I mostly stopped talking to him because it was awkward and uncomfortable. Turns out I actually am bisexual, though I never did like him that way. But it still pisses me off because I never finished the drawing which sucks because it was so good. Why do so many straight guys think every gay guy is into them? The audacity???? Heteronormativity is weird af This rant is totally pointless but I just remembered how gd annoying it was so might as well send my woes into the void

[@WuhHuh]

I don’t know if your gender had any influence on whether or not he thought you liked him, maybe he was just clueless or, the less appealing answer, he was trying to get with you after your breakup. You don’t have to take my word for it, I myself am a straight male, I just wanted to throw in my own theories.

[@liarwithagun]

I don't think someone randomly getting a well made hand drawn image and making a wrong assumption of interest is unreasonable, especially considering that hand drawn pictures of someone else has long, traditionally been a sign of attraction to another person's looks. I don't think this particular instance is a "Man assuming things about woman" thing. It's more of a "Person assumes thing about another person" thing. Doesn't matter who is drawing who really. Now him being weird/aggressive/whatever about it afterwards once you made clear that you weren't into him is a completely different thing.

[@King_James_1andLonely]

@@WuhHuh haha yeah, I don’t think me being a guy really had much to do with his assumption, I just have experienced that specific reaction (to my sexuality) several too many times and so had to joke about it (I don’t actually think he specifically thought I was into him simply because of my possible bisexual nature lol, that was just an offhand jibe). But he in particular was just acting weird and passive aggressive, and made things very uncomfortable after he made the assumption and confronted me about it, which was what was so frustrating to me. I don’t know if he was homophobic or what, I just know how he treated me was a total 180. I had hoped we could quickly move past it, but evidently not. And maybe you’re right, and he did like me, and saw the whole thing as a rejection, so he decided to be an asshole about it? No idea. That would be ironic. Either way, it was a dick move. Especially since I was going through a lot of shit at the time and needed a friend.

[@King_James_1andLonely]

@@liarwithagun actually, I do agree with you on this. I honestly wasn’t expecting anyone to see or comment on this 😅 so I kind of took out some context. He knew that I was into portraiture before this happened, and I know he knew because he’d seen me drawing other people, and he asked for my help on a portrait he was making for a project - among other things. I had on several occasions ranted about the specifics of drawing portraits and the objective qualities of people’s faces. (I also always asked permission of people - if I knew them - before drawing them because I know drawing somebody without them knowing can be kind of creepy.) We had been friends for a while. And I had been very vocal about my not being over my ex still at the time. Which was why I felt his assumption was contextually unreasonable. Even so, it was much less his presumption and more his reaction afterward that pissed me off. So the whole thing was more of a “guy makes an assumption about his supposedly good friend based on faulty logic and proceeds to be an asshole about it even when proven wrong”. (Not sure where you got the woman thing from; I’m a man. No big, just not sure what you meant lol). Long story short, I felt he was being presumptuous considering he was not special in the fact that I was drawing his portrait, and he should have been aware of that.

[@King_James_1andLonely]

Yikes, sorry about the long replies. Wasn’t expecting anybody to comment, so I felt I needed to clarify that that last bit of my original comment was entirely a joke lol. Obviously I wasn’t too upset about the presumption itself - it was confusing to me, but I wasn’t going to hold it against him long. What I do feel genuinely angry about is that he decided we could no longer be friends after that, during a time when I was in desperate need of a loyal friend.

[@Murzolith]

Although i myself didn't do anything for a crush, there was a guy that I "dated" (was convinced he'd have a meltdown and start breaking shit in class if i didn't) who did this detective mystery thing at registration on valentines day and forced the teachers to go along with it. It was humiliating but at least i got a big chocolate bar out of it-

[@Murzolith]

Looking back on how he acted I think he might of been a neckbeard

[@NoriMori1992]

Did you think he'd have a meltdown because you were paranoid or because he had a ton of red flags?

[@Murzolith]

@@NoriMori1992 red flags but my social anxiety didn't help. He was known throughout the school for his meltdowns and he flipped a table and stormed out of class once. Not to mention halfway through the relationship he kept whispering racist comments about someone in the class to me just cause he was slightly irritated at them for no real reason.

[@NoriMori1992]

@@Murzolith Yikes.

[@OriTheCreator.]

I’ve only had one crush (this was near the end of 8th grade), but man I tried so hard to impress him I wrote a lot of poems about him (didn’t show him them), attended music performances where he played at, gave him a lot of compliments, joined marching band for him, showed him how good I was at art, and tried to pretend I was a fan of a game franchise he really liked. The big thing I did was make a very personal portrait for him where I used his favorite colors in it and drew references to his interests in the background. He loved it, but I hate it now lol He ultimately rejected me but I really enjoy marching band now thanks to him

[@ASweetShortCake]

Honestly, your determination is inspiring. And good for you for finding something you like!

[@OriTheCreator.]

@@ASweetShortCake Thank you!!

[@MisterFribble]

ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[@ASweetShortCake]

@@OriTheCreator. Of course! 😊

[@mouhiazeck]

Helppp I also joined marching band for my crush The only thing is my main instrument is a chinese ethnic instrument, so I had to start playing french horn and mellophone in sophomore year and I just was and still am at it

[@katakari13]

this brings back too many memories of elementary school things ive done myself as a kid- thanks a lot matt i tried to hide those away forever

[@prod1gyyz]

1:47 i would INSTANTLY fell in love with this guy tbh

[@rpjoca4644]

"Art thou single" is gold

[@tamasjambor8668]

One time in 10th grade my crush didn't show up to school and, since I lived pretty close to her, I volunteered to bring her her art assignment to finish at home, which she had started working on in a previous art class. (by the way, it was just a piece of paper with almost nothing on it yet, besides her name and a few pencil lines) So I went to her house(at like 5pm in the winter so it was pretty much completely dark out by that point) and when I knocked on the door I could have sworn I heard some shuffling and footsteps from the inside but nobody answered door so I just... stood there for minutes, presistently knocking over and over again because I was convinced they were at home. Eventually, just when I finally gave up and decided to just leave the paper outside her door (she lived in an apartment complex so it was still indoors) her dad arrived from the outside (her parents actually knew me, since me and her were best friends as kids at some point) and we had a rather awkward exchange, including him asking why I needed to deliver a piece of paper that was practically blank, but he said he'd give it to her. I never found out if she was actually home or not and this event haunts me to this day. And it's only been like a year and a half since this happened.

[@axolotdraws9946]

She might’ve not wanted to go near the door just in case it wasn’t someone she knew there, after all it was nighttime and her dad wasn’t home too, but that’s just my guess

[@narratornate8841]

I have never done anything particularly stupid, but I can recall something particularly stupid someone did for me. There was a heated situation online with a misogynist, in our school's discord server. The dude who was trying to impress me started roleplaying dumb anime samurai bullshit in the middle of the serious situation. Dude literally said **pulls out sword and stands in front of **-my irl name here-**** followed by some demon slayer quote

[@shoebillfan1963]

the rizzler

[@The21stGamer]

There's a kid at my school who, while he doesn't watch anime, would definitely do something like this if he did.

[@ziggyra4525]

5:06 I relate to this. Seven years later I have horrible eyesight and lenses thicker than the frames of my glasses

[@chxrryblxssoms]

matt your videos genuinely make me so happy and never fail to make me laugh no matter how down i might be feeling, thank you so much :)

[@Dogmations-j9o]

5:00 I can literally imagine this scenario playing out in my head.

[@silly-little-bean]

SAME OMG

[@danteryan4247]

One of my favorite strategies I used throughout elementary and middle school was the "be so subtle she doesn't even notice approach" it never worked shockingly. Other noticeable attempts include: "tell her she's beautiful every time I see her" "tell everyone (including her best friend) that I liked her and ask to keep it a secret" "make sure I'm the first to sit by her at lunch" These were all with different people and none worked

[@CorvidayWolfy]

As a girl, don’t worry man, one day one of your goofy little schemes will work

[@redsunrises8571]

Not exactly something to impress a crush, but something stupid because of a crush. I liked a girl in 6th grade and didn't want her to know but apparently I wasn't discreet enough because her friends knew about it and said she didn't like me. I was hurt and petty so I went out of my way to passive aggressively show her I wasn't interested anymore (even though I totally was), like scooting my chair away from her if we were next to each other in class. We played the same instrument in band and for most of the year I was first chair and she was second, and at one minor concert in which we performed for the younger students to advertise band to them or something, I scooted my chair away from her to express my disinterest, but being first chair I was on the very edge of the stage. It wasn't very high off the ground but it was far enough that I fractured my wrist trying to catch myself so I didn't damage my instrument. I played the whole concert as well as I could with a fractured wrist on the hand that operated the buttons of the instrument, gritting my teeth through the pain. It was my dominant hand too so I had trouble writing for several weeks until it healed. On the bright side, I did end up marrying someone completely different

[@sparkleshoe2224]

I knew this rather strange guy in junior high who had a massive crush on me. I love reading, so he deduced that the very best way to my heart was through books. So he wrote spicy fiction…about a guy and girl hooking up in an empty classroom after school…with me as the main character… and had me read it while waiting for the bus after school.

[@LegacizedApe]

with people like this it makes me feel better about my relationship failures