Was Your Friend MEAN ? 

Hello, Pixi-Gags! I don't know if you remember me, but I was a fan of yours a few years back when you first opened your channel. Does Angie ring a bell? Anyways, I just wanted to let you know that I'm animating myself, AND that I just got accepted into a upper secondary school for the arts! Thanks for being an inspiration and a mentor.

If you have a mean friend, that’s not a friend.

There are some people who will need to hear this. And there are some for which this will be very bad advice. Yes, people are fragmented and will not always feel the same way. However, most people are capable of cultivating a form of self-discipline where they can identify their current mental state and account for it in order to prevent them from saying things they regret. People will mess up. We all do. But it's okay to set boundaries and limits to prevent others from walking all over you while they act at the whim of their emotions. Sometimes apologies are in order before forgiveness is offered.

I really appreciate the variety in content. Instead of this video being an animation tutorial, it's a valuable life lesson and well made.

This hit me because recently I was cut off from a friend I was confused at first, we hanged out, we laughed together, barely argued and if we did it's short lived and not even hostile, and I swore to myself to always make that person happy and smile, and analyze the bad things and decisions they may do and why they did such actions But despite all that, they apparently held a grudge to what I did when I internally panicked and hid away for a while to cause too much stress for myself, where their guardians pancked for me (which I didn't expect because... who could care about me that much?), I was in my lowest in those times and I'm aware they were too. I understand and it's rightful of them to get mad at me, but what did they really do wrong? They vented their anger on my younger sibling a year later, who's very much still a child, and said very hurtful things. When I first heard this outburst from them, I couldn't believe it because I've never seen them act in such a way and I know-I THOUGHT I knew who they were, how kind they are, how they try to for people, but the way they affected my sibling was real... it hurt my sibling. I know when they lashed out they were angry and frustrated by something else, but even so, what they did to my sibling is... So was I really in the wrong, was I the mean friend? Was that panicked, mindless action of fear make me the mean friend? Was their action make them a mean friend? Well, imo it doesn't entirely, like mentioned in the vid there's layers of everyone, but what they did is not to be ignored and they should still be held accountable by it I'm not sure abt mine... I still feel like a jerk especially knowing they got so hurt by what I did

Pixi out here being a real one for people in struggling friendships ong

I really am a fan of this new content. Please keep it up. Could you maybe make one like: “Dealing with toxic friends”?

I love that the videos are so short that I can watch them without getting bored or distracted

This is very interesting… I didn’t know about it. Thank you Pixi for letting others know about it ❤️

I battle with procrastination and writer's block, especially because I'm creating a vast universe for my characters, but I worry too much about the order and little details. I also suffer from a lack of patience because I worry so much.

Hello Pixi! Your videos are really amazing and your art has improved so much over time! You are a big inspiration to me, please keep up the great work! :D

This video really spoke to me. I don’t know how much I should say in a youtube comment, but I really wanted to comment on this video because, it really hit me. I was friends with someone over seven years. It’d be ten this upcoming August. Neither of us were always able to be good friends towards each other. I know it’s easy to see things in black or white. Even now, as I’m typing this I hesitate, thinking about how people will interpret reading this. So I want to be clear that neither of us were perfect. I do remember being the mean to them though. The other day something reminded me of them, and I decided to look back at our old chats. I read some of our old arguments, and our falling out. I’m really ashamed of myself for every terrible thing I said to them. We apologized to each other about everything that happened before, but I still hate myself for saying them in the first place. I hated myself back then too. I always thought I might be a bad person growing up. Both from things I saw in myself, and from one of my parental figures calling me and selfish. Jumping up the present, this video actually came at quite a coincidental time. I was just talking about that friend in therapy the other day. lol. My therapist says I shouldn’t live in the past. I’d like to think I don’t, but ever since that last session, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about my past friendship with her. Even though, it had its problems, we both really cared about each other. We always tried to support each other, even if we didn’t always know how. We cheered each other up when the other was down. Made each other laugh. Honestly we were super close. It’s why I feel really twisted up about our friendship. We weren’t exactly “toxic”, but we weren’t always good for each other either. We didn’t stop being friends over that either. A lot happened all at once. We moved to different schools, Covid happened, a lot of hate on the news and in our new environments. The whole world felt like it flipped upside down. In the middle of all that, me and my friend started drifting apart. They were going through their own stuff, and sometimes they took it out on me. They’d ignore my texts, and exclude me from hanging out with them and their friends. At the time, I was really frustrated with them, but I also felt like I wasn’t allowed to be angry with them. I knew that hanging out with different people was just part of life, and that I shouldn’t get upset if someone doesn’t text back immediately. They have their own life after all. It just happened so much that it felt deliberate, and I tried talking with them about it, but I never really felt like they understood how I felt. They mainly just told me it wasn’t on purpose (which I later found out wasn’t exactly true). On tops of that, I started to feel like I couldn’t relate to my friend anymore. I felt out of place with her, and her new friend group. It didn’t help that I was already dealing with stuff at school. All in all, I was very lonely, and didn’t understand the world around me. Worst of all, it felt like I couldn’t turn to my best friend for help. It didn’t feel like she was all there. I know I should listen to what my therapist says, I just needed to say all of this because, I don’t think I ever got closure from everything. Sorry for the long winded story 😅

Really beautyful speech about friendship given by a cat , smth I never knew I needed

thank you for this video, a part of my friend was a bit rude but i feel better now. ♥

Can you do tutorial on how to animate a planet or ball spin with key frames

That's true. Sometimes ppl need to get reminded on that. Myself included lol XD

I have a friend who we used to be really close, but lately when I’ve opened up to her more about who I am (fandoms im in like warriors and wings of fire) she has started to make fun of me and now it’s all she does when we hang out. She calls me “furry therian” and I feel like our friendship is getting worse. I don’t want to hang out with her because she just teases me but I don’t want to stop because I’m afraid of hurting her feelings. Does anyone have advice for me? Should I keep being her friend or not?

Absolutely pawsome and inspiring 😺👍. In many stories, there will always be the good characters 😺👍... But, there can also be some bad characters 😹. This video meows a big furry like 👍 from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮. 😺👍

Yes, that's it, Pixie! Thanks for letting us know! Much love 😊🫶

So awesome :)😊

I just became an even bigger fan ❤

I remember when I had a argue with my friend. She was angry that I made essay without her. I had a bad experience in middle school and hish school and because of that I thoush that everyone are mean people. I want to finish our relation, but my mother told be how I was happy when I spend time with her and I should thinked that what I done wasn't fair. She had right. I used to made all essays alone even that I had partner, but every single one doesn't want to meet me to determine what to do and I ended up doing it alone and I don't give credits to my partner for my hard work. I just got used to always doing it myself and it was more comfortable for me. Of course I could give her a chance and see if we could work together on essay. I apologize to her speaking that I should ask her first about it and that I finished my work and I want to work with her. After few years I wrote to her explaining why I done that before saying experience with my peers and she understand it. We still have contact to each other.

Nice video! 🙂

I gotta let em know that they're being dum dums, I care for them that way but anyone else call em dum dum and they get a smack

Hmm, no words

Oh shit oop OxO Oh welp ye 💀👌 Thx for the vid lol!

My best friend bullied me because i have a fake cat tail, is she a friend?

Cute.

☺️

Mean to me once, shame on you Mean to me twice, shame on me Mean to me 3 times, nuh uh bye bye 👋👋

Is this made by you?

What are you trying to say with this???

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Hello

I have no friends :) (I think..)

As someone who has grown up around a narcissist, this is the kind of thing they would attempt to weaponize. By no means should you tolerate or enable patterns of bad behavior from yourself or anyone else. Self love is good and all, but not when you use it as an excuse to enable harmful or malicious behavior.

What about my friend that hits me and leaves bruises on my body and mental health, but if I try to fight back I end up shaking and crying. 🥲