I’m probably just an asshole nobody wants to talk to, but I can hardly even get a reply text from anyone anymore. A couple people have told me that they are just feeling burnt out/depressed/etc and don’t have even enough energy to answer a message anymore. But I’ve also had some long time friends just entirely ghost me in the last year as well with no explanation. It feels like I’m surrounded by NPCs. I’ve basically just stopped reaching out to anyone at this point. Outside of my work, literally the only people I talk to are my parents, sister, and my girlfriend. Everyone else seems dead inside. I used to have at least 10 people who I could call on a moments notice and all of those people are gone.
pretty sure you’re not meant to take the term that literally.
It’s 2025, and people still using “just a joke bro”?
Like, we all just like ved thru that and then the very obvious and foreseeable revelation that it wasn’t a fucking joke.
So maybe, just maybe, basic decency is a thing, and we shouldn’t dehumanize people?
Especially not for being interesting enough to for a self-absorbed stranger who’s brain is rotted from being raised by YouTube and needs real life dialed up to 11.
Calm down, the dude isn’t going to start a holocaust because he called some people NPCs