I hate to say it, but this feels like an unfortunate personal experience being overgeneralized. Friend groups can be incredible. They can also be what OP describes, and rightfully calls out given how toxic those situations are, but decrying the concept of the friend group attributes the problem far too broadly.

they get the zoomies whenever mercury is in retrograde

What is with this community getting bombarded by the doofus brigade? Y’all just keep getting downvoted anyways…

half baked

Meanwhile an overwhelming majority of bathroom goers are like, “whatever, I’ve got nothing to hide”

I love Kirby and it looks like it could be quite good but I’m maintaining my Switch 2 boycott slash I can’t afford one anyways so like with Pokopia it’s emulation or bust.

The “marketplace of ideas” in action.

Also, in my opinion, Tumblr losing basically every single raid war they got into with 4chan around 2012-2013 has a lot to do with the state of social media today.

Tits or GTFO except now anon is POTUS.

Going to see The Odyssey (finally). Two day work week! Got my Lemmy instance online, Mastodon is next. Looking to be a great week :)