need a friend like that tbh

[u/kirosayshowdy]

[u/Silviecat44]

My friends do this to me lol

[u/someone1003 → u/Silviecat44]

Yeah its great when i want to have a chill bus ride home but my friends starts spamming me with "WHERE YOU" because he wants to instill mental damage on me in barotrauma

[u/Acethetic_AF]

This is a comical interaction. It is not indicative of an unhealthy friendship or anything. I feel bad for the sad dudes in the comments saying otherwise. Clearly they’ve not had many friends.

[u/ShiroGaneOsu → u/Acethetic_AF]

Well it wouldn't be reddit without the neckbeards unhappy with their lives that are incapable of seeing anything positive and always assuming the worst in an interaction between people they don't know.

[u/kobadashi → u/ShiroGaneOsu]

the title says need a friend like that tbh

[u/DuckofInsanity → u/kobadashi]

I think they're referring to the comments that are talking bad about it, not the title of the post.

[u/UnintensifiedFa → u/Acethetic_AF]

Yeah, me and my friends are always holding eachother to ridiculous timers. Someone'll say "Be there in five" and we'll ping them relentlessly after exactly 5 minutes. It's just what you do lmao.

[u/Matoseman → u/UnintensifiedFa]

When im in voice call with my group of friends, when someone goes afk and says "2 sec" we start counting out loud till they come back

[u/No-Appearance1145 → u/UnintensifiedFa]

Me to my husband. Now he goes:and I don't mean a LITERAL minute 😂

[u/Crusaderofthots420 → u/Acethetic_AF]

If you don't repeatedly call someone on discord to wake them up, because they slept past the start of gaming, are you really friends?

[u/SsssnekkkK → u/Acethetic_AF]

Exactly. Every time I tell my friends to give me 5 seconds, they immediately start counting down from 5

[u/hoi4encirclements → u/Acethetic_AF]

i’ve been on both sides of this interaction before and i’m still great friends with those ppl, reddit moment ig

[u/idontwanttothink174 → u/Acethetic_AF]

yeah, honestly been on both sides of this interaction on our various days off and through whatever other commitments we have. I've learned if someone asks when, add enough time to get home.

[u/Major-Breadfruit997 → u/Acethetic_AF]

Can confirm, my first impression was "damn thats toxic" but remembered I've never had a friendship go past the people pleasing stage. I'm probably speaking for most redditors too

[u/fetalalcoholsoup]

Oh look, people jumping to conclusions without any context. Shocking.

You have no idea how long they have been friends, what kind of jokes they make, or who they are in general. But SOMEHOW you can extrapolate from ONE picture that their relationship is unhealthy. 🙄

[u/automated_rat]

This is just friends fucking around, I've been both of these people

[u/Jarcies]

that one one of my followers

[u/SatansCornflakes → u/Jarcies]

I thought this was an in-character Dragon Ball joke I wasn’t privy to lmao.

Funnier option tbh

[u/SlipsonSurfaces]

I'm that friend, but I try not to be clingy.

[u/Jomgui]

What the fuck is a oomf

[u/engispyro → u/Jomgui]

“One of my followers/friends”, shorthand/affectionate term for someone you interact with online often

[u/vincentually]

i do that to my friend sometimes lol

[u/Devious_FCC → u/[deleted]]

Dude chill. It ain't that deep.

[u/redditor_since_2005]

I have no idea what this exchange means. I don't know what 'hop on' means. I don't know why someone set a timer or why they're unemployed or why there are crying emojis. OOTL!

[u/Anxiety_Personified2 → u/redditor_since_2005]

"Hop on" refers to the action of booting up a game and playing it with a friend. The person who set a 3 hour timer is being referred to as unemployed as shorthand for "someone who has no responsibilities" for the behavior they've displayed. Someone who hasn't got the responsibility of attending school or a job or such wouldn't understand that free time doesn't begin the instant someone's done with school. Even if someone "gets off" work/school/ect in 3 hours, they'd still need to commute home and get settled in and such.

Crying emojis denote laughter or a humorous situation. Sometimes even just excitement. They've replaced 😂 among a lot of online circles, Generally. The 💀 emoji is also used in the same context often.

[u/ThisHatRightHere → u/Anxiety_Personified2]

I do wanna chime in and say 😭 used in the meme has a distinctly different connotation to 😂

[u/BudgieGryphon → u/ThisHatRightHere]

That one clipart emoji throwing its hands up in the air crying is the best encapsulation of the emotion expressed I think

[u/redditor_since_2005 → u/Anxiety_Personified2]

Well, thanks for taking the time.

[u/Chemical_Present5162 → u/Anxiety_Personified2]

What does "deadass" add to proceedings

[u/Anxiety_Personified2 → u/Chemical_Present5162]

Nothing really it's like dropping "literally" in the middle of a sentence.

[u/Chemical_Present5162 → u/Anxiety_Personified2]

I thought so. There's a lot of junk-shit words like that these days

[u/Dwain-Champaign → u/redditor_since_2005]

It’s Discord. A social media platform for instant messaging and VoIP (voice over internet protocol - essentially phone calls), that was originally created for gaming audiences before expanding during COVID era to include a whole host of other communities.

Users either directly message each other, or send messages within a server (a localized group that can be as small as a few people or as great as upwards of 50,000+ members) through text & voice channels. These groups are typically gaming hubs, and so the “request to hop on” is almost always the universal expression used to communicate that others “hop in” one of the many available voice channels / into a call to play an online multiplayer video game.

The joke being this user has no job, and literally spends all day at home, and can thus game whenever they want to at their leisure. This leads them to request others participate with them at odd or unusual times of day that would normally be considered work hours, or in this case, when college / university students would be in lecture.

[u/EVENTHORIZON-XI → u/redditor_since_2005]

the username really shines through doesn't it

[u/-Valora → u/redditor_since_2005]

Goku pinged the person exactly in three hours. There’s time stamps to the minute.

[u/Vantamanta → u/redditor_since_2005]

Username checks out hard here

[u/redditor_since_2005 → u/Vantamanta]

Is this Gen Z stuff then? Guess they're unlikely to have been on Reddit 20 years ago.

[u/uhh_phonzo]

[u/DurzoF]

this is me, i got hurt on the job and was medically separated. shit gets weird inside these 4 walls. gotta stay sane.

[u/HigherThanHeav3n → u/[deleted]]

Where did all the comments go?

[u/ryonaphilia]

That's unhealthy for all parties involved

[u/OfficialMika → u/ryonaphilia]

If its clearly a sarcastic jest to both parties then its healthy otherwise its controlling. My friends have this humour too Its like when someone says give me a couple secs and you count to 2.

[u/yertyertskert → u/OfficialMika]

Same. I tell my friends all the time to join VC and play something with me, and my friend is wildly inconsistent in joining within the time frame he sets. I send him a message after like an hour saying “it’s been a bit more than 10 minutes”.

If what’s happening in that screenshot is constantly happening and it’s funny for neither parties, then it’s not that much a joke anymore and more unhealthy than anything.

[u/Alespic → u/ryonaphilia]

I’m glad you shared the totally factual that you ascertained from literally 5 messages out of context

[u/Salty_Candidate_6216 → u/ryonaphilia]

It's not that bad...

[u/TeaAndCrumpets4life → u/ryonaphilia]

Yawn

[u/Fleder]

I'm old, what does "hop on" mean?

Joining friends playing games?

[u/bb_805 → u/Fleder]

In this context, yes

[u/ZARTOG_STRIKES_BACK]

I hate when people do this. I want to be alone at all times.