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How to Prevent Your Friends from Catching Feelings For You

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0:00 Let's say that you got a friend, right? Um, a good friend, and you can tell that they're starting to like you. You don't like them, >> but they're gay. >> They're show [laughter] >> Man, don't up the difficulty level yet. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. It's But we're single in this. >> Yep. And they're showing early signs of attraction. They're not coming on too strong, but you can just tell. >> Yeah. >> You do not want them. You're not interested. How do you discourage these feelings from devel developing further without ruining the friendship? You burp really loud. >> What the ████ Does my heart burn? Holy ████ >> You think that'll do it? A burp. >> And then you have like boogers and you're like, "What the hell?" And you flick it. >> And what if they're like, "How [laughter] gross. It's so cute." >> Oh, give me the booger. >> Oh, Bart's booger. >> I just ████ myself. You wouldn't try to make it work. [laughter]

0:50 You wouldn't try to make it work. Well, no. He said that you're not attracted one bit. >> Yeah, but you could try. >> You want to let you're It's an embarrassing person to be liking you or something. So, you're like, "Oo, I don't want to like mess this up." Yeah. >> But you really like them as a friend, >> but you don't want to lo you don't want to lose them because here's what would happen. Let's say that you want to downplay the attraction. Kind of like what you're trying to do. Because you know that if it goes to a point where you're like, "Hey, I'm not interested." They're just going to go, "Oh, you thought I liked you." And then now you look like you're weird. >> And then now the whole thing's ████ up. >> Yeah. You got you're you're like you're sniffing. >> Exactly. But they didn't profess their love. >> But you're right about it. So you know that it's like that. But you already know that they'll just go, "Oh, I don't like you, dude. You what? You thought I liked you, >> ████ weirdo." [music] >> So, how do you downplay? How do you actually honestly get them to not like you anymore without being really obvious

1:42 about it? >> I just This is going to be so boring >> because I've [snorts] had this happen. >> Oh, you have? >> I just stop hanging out with them. >> Oh, you just cut them off cold turkey? >> Yeah, I just stopped. And did did you ever hear from them again through >> I think they tried to hang out but also it's like in groups and stuff. So that means I had to like stop hanging out with the whole group. >> Whoa. But I got hella friends. >> I got a lot of friends. >> You cut off an entire friend group just because someone in there liked you? >> Not completely. I'll still hang with them, but I I had options cuz I had a lot of friends. So I just spend more time with other friends. >> What was so bad about this person liking you? >> [sighs] >> Where do I begin? [laughter] >> First off, imagine >> Uhhuh.

2:32 >> a dirty villager beet farmer in the middle of a village on in the middle of a >> of a China. >> Of a China. >> But they're a US citizen. >> What? [laughter] >> Yeah. Where do they get their beat farmer tendencies from? >> I'm just like, imagine what that would look like. >> Okay. I am. And then she got sturdy ankles. >> Uh-huh. >> She got >> what? >> She got a sturdy build. She could carry a lot of weight, >> right? >> Okay. >> Sturdy ankle. >> So, if you look at her face, it'll it'll like Let's say you get a baby, like a toddler, and you squeeze their face like this. [music] >> That's what it looks like. >> So, you squeeze the face, their eyes are open, but then they look closed like this. How did you know that she had an

3:22 interest in you? >> She reminds you of Karen Mock's character in God of Cookery. Have you seen it? >> Too pretty. Too pretty. >> Too pretty. >> Too pretty. Too thin. How did you know she had an interest in you? >> Too thin. >> Yeah. Uh, [laughter] she started buying me things. >> Oh, little San Rio surprises. [laughter] >> Cuz Okay. When people buy stuff and they're just a buyer cuz some people are just buyers. >> Okay. Yeah. She's love she's love bombing you. I got ████ Ta hat. You know, I ain't trying to hook up with them. Like that's that's what I do. I just I'm a you know, sometimes I think of people and I buy stuff for them, right? >> But when it's only you and nobody else. >> Oh, it's singling you out. >> And then sometimes you see people in the same group going and then they start laughing. You go, "Do they know something that I don't know?" >> Like that, >> dude. [laughter] >> Is that her?

4:12 >> No. Oh, damn. Worse. >> Whoa. >> Wait. Wait. That's worse. You mean >> no sumo wrestler version of that. >> Oh ████ Okay. >> All right. >> By the way, one of the funniest people I know. Great personality. >> A dude, you didn't have to add that. That makes me feel bad about her now. >> Did you try to make it work? >> Nope. I can't. My dick wouldn't get hard. >> Oh. >> You tried to think about it. >> Well, this is why I thought it was better to just like not hang. >> Yeah. I just thought like I don't want to be in a situation where I have to start rejecting her or being mean. >> Okay. So, you didn't want to hurt her. >> I rather just make it seem like, well, we all just drifted away and you know, like I and I didn't want to confront it. Like, I didn't want to be like, no. I didn't want to like I didn't even want to like tell her no. >> Yeah. Yeah. You didn't want to get

5:03 there. Yeah. >> Did you miss her? >> Well, that's too long. [laughter] Time's up. You miss her. >> I I I missed the group friendship >> cuz it was a group friendship. You know how sometimes you like people as a group, you never hang out with them individually, >> right? >> But like I think she was a part of the ensemble. >> So she's like the sun and you guys are all planets revolving around her. [laughter] >> She was a pretty big son. I thought she was like, you know, there's some girls that are really cool when you and you and you picked and you go like you're one of the bros. >> Like there's some girls that you're okay. Like you're just like what? You're allowed with the guys cuz you're you're one of the bros. >> You're Yeah. And then um >> Yeah. It's just I felt like you're my lesbian sister, you know? Like that's kind of the feeling I had,

5:53 >> right? >> And I was like, damn, that sucks. You know, I I maybe this is how girls feel when they're like, I thought you were my gay best friend. I let you ████ watch me like naked and we went to go we went to go like shopping and ████ and then like and then like you you saw me putting on different dresses and but you were getting hard the whole time. That's how I felt. >> Oh, okay. >> You know what I mean? Like it's like >> oh I thought we were homies like that. Like dude, what the ████ And then it's like the whole time you're we're talking about sucking me off. Like dude, >> like then all the jokes kind of hit differently. I see. And I didn't even once go, "Oh, but maybe we could get together and she could like lose weight and like she'll have a glow up and then like I'll just have to like I I would even consider that cuz I thought that would be like >> so manipulative." >> Sure. >> Cuz you actually don't like her now. >> Yeah. >> But then later you might like her. >> Later you might. >> Yeah. But I'm like But I didn't even

6:44 like her romantically. I just thought she was funny and and like a dude. >> Ah, okay. It reminds me so much of like those classic movie plots where they're best friends and the girl or the guy aren't attractive and they get a glow up and all of a sudden it's like they're in love, >> right? Probably. But by that time, you know, when you see someone so much like a sibling? >> Yeah. >> Even though they're hot, you're like, I want to barf on you. [laughter] >> I get Yeah, I get what you mean. Yeah. Uh-huh. Like I'll probably try cuz you're hot, but like still make me want to barf. >> Did you have any guys like that through the years that that you were like, "Oh, no. He likes me. Oh crap. >> I bet girls get it way more than guys. >> Girls got to get it 50,000 times more than guys do. >> Yeah. I think um you you create a little more distance. And I think um I'm naturally someone who's

7:37 pretty engaging when I talk to people. So I just become less engaging. >> Oh. So you're more dismissive. >> Not dismissive. I just I'm not as like into the conversations or connections because that makes connections grow and that's kind of what you're trying to cut off. >> Has it ever happened in a place where you couldn't avoid them? Like work where you you had to be around them. >> Yeah. But you can still cut off you can still cut down your interaction. >> Ah, okay. >> So you just have to just be less >> and it's always worked every time. >> Like they get the hint or did you ever have to like go >> Well, do you get it? Like do you guys ever have you ever felt someone be engaging toward you and then just kind of you you see like a change or feel a change? >> Yeah, >> it's obvious. >> No, I'm ████ where I've I've uh they

8:27 probably cut down the engagement. I didn't get it >> and [laughter] then they've turned up the engagement >> and I didn't get it either. Like remember the my the so there's this girl I was talking to and then she invites she's oh I'm having a pool party at her college apartment and then I go there and then it's just me and her in a hot tub >> and then uh I was like oh where's all your friends? She oh they ended up not coming and I think that's a clear sign. >> Yeah. >> But in my mind I was like that's so ████ up [laughter] and then so I so she turned up the engagement. He's all like you got turned down that sucks. >> Yeah. and she turned out the engagement and I just didn't understand either. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Dang. I don't know. Um I feel like I mean I' I don't know what would have happened if it didn't work. Like it's always >> What if you have to what if you have to downplay it in a hurry where you can't afford the slow uh decline? Like if if

9:19 this is going to get really weird very fast if people notice that this guy is like chasing you. How do you do it quicker without causing too much of a I guess like a ruckus? Or is there even a way? >> I would I was gonna say like, oh, I would say something, but I wouldn't. >> It's too hard. Yeah. >> Unless they were straight up would straight up ask me out. I wouldn't be the first one to say like, >> no, they're just like always trying to be around you and stuff. You know what I mean? >> I don't know. I just get very even I this is just how I've always taken care of it cuz it does happen quite a bit. I just I just literally kind of shut down and away like I just >> You just get not as cool. >> Yeah. Notice early. I get less understanding, less funny, less [laughter] >> start telling bad jokes on purpose. Okay. You're like, "No, no, no." So, that's good that you notice early

10:09 because on the flip side, there are girls that everyone's telling them, >> "Yeah, your so-called best friend, your friend's own guy, >> he's in love with you." And they're like, "No, no." They're just in mad disbelief, right? And then finally, like after a party, they're drunk and then like they call their gay best friend to drive them home or whatever and they're like, "He tried to kiss me. Can you believe it?" And we're like, "That's what we've been TRYING TO TELL YOU, DUMB ████ [laughter] WE ALL BEEN trying to tell you this." And then why does that happen so often, too? Like they're in such like you don't know him. >> Do those girls know and they're playing dumb. >> Yeah. >> Not playing dumb. >> Like how come you can see it? >> Maybe just in denial. Um, I don't know. >> But they exist though, right? >> Sometimes I think it could be such a fine line, too. So, I could see why that would be tough to see.

11:00 >> Oh, okay. >> Especially if you're super super close. I don't know. >> I feel like I I I've ran into these situations multiple times. Like, I've dated girls that were like, "Oh, no, he's my friend." And I'm like, "Okay, I'mma clock this. Check. Watch." And they're like, "Can you believe when we were having problems and I was like trying to talk to him about it that he totally came on to me and I'm all like, "Did you forget what I said?" I know, but like can you believe it? The nerve. And I'm all like, "What the ████ Like why are there so many girls like this?" Like what the hell? So I in my mind I was just like, "Yo, like girls are just like this." Like just oblivious. >> Yeah. But then do you have situations like where Bonos is like, "Yeah, I see it a mile away. They clearly like me, so I'm just going to ████ walk away. >> And then she does she implements all the techniques to like dissuade it. Yeah.

11:51 >> Well, she's I think she's smart. And then the girls that can see it, so what Gio told me, what she used to do, like if she senses it, she just immediately hard starts treating them like a brother so that there's it's clear. >> So, oh, what's up, bro? You know, what's like like like literally like that like like what's up, bro? Oh, no, dude. That's cool, dude. You know, like then you're like, cuz then then you almost turn if she ever gave off a flirtatious feminine energy, >> then if she flips it almost like masculine brothery, then it's uh they usually get the get the hint cuz it won't continue. Cuz if it was a like coffee shop moment, whatever, then it goes like, "Oh, here's your cup, bro. Oh, here's your coffee, bro." >> But what if like you can't pull off like saying bro? >> Then you say essay. [laughter] Hey, there you go. So,

12:41 there you go, guys. In case this is happening to you and you feel like there's an unwanted attention for somebody you don't like, feelings are starting to go up on their end, just start treating them like a cholo. [laughter] >> Hey, here you go. See?

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