IDK why but when I got to that part, the first thing I thought of was an image in my head of them accidentally touching a candle and then bursting into flames...
A friend once asked me how to tell their crush they liked them. I, in my infinite 16yo wisdom, told them to present them with a potato, and if they think you’re a complete freak then they weren’t the right one anyway, but if they take it in stride you’re in the right ballpark. Shortly afterwards they brought ME the potato… and I had entirely forgotten the prior conversation. They spent all day having an internal panic about what this could possibly mean and eventually outright told me that night. Three and a half years later, they presented me with a ring wedged in a potato when they asked me to marry them. I cannot wait to exchange potatoes at our wedding.
The cupcake one is quite silly when you hear the thought process behind it, but even if their crush didn't end up reciprocating their feelings, they probably got pretty popular because of it. Seems like a total win in my eyes
I have sort of the reverse story. In high school, a friend told me a guy in my class liked me, and seeing as I wasn't interested and had the social skills of a potato, my reaction was to immediately get up, walk over to him at his computer, and proceed to tell him I'm honored but not interested. To his credit, he took it well and I sat back down. But then I wondered if the message really got across because I could never let things go and I have the tendency to be redundant and hammer home every point I feel I need to make, so I got up and did it again five minutes later. Yeah... I didn't realize how bad this must have been until later when I actually worked on getting my social skills from potato to something a bit more viable, so I finished high school long before I understood that declining a crush, twice, in a row, in a full classroom, was probably a terrible thing to do to someone's self-confidence. I also never knew his name or just forgot it. Guy from Intro to Multimedia class in the mid-2010s, if you're reading this somehow, I'm so so sorry about that and I hope you forgot it happened because I never will 🤦♀
@@sunfurycommenting1013To be fair, it would probably be a memory forever burned into his brain that’s a mix of embarrassment and pride, since he managed to take it like a champ.
tried to impress a girl in middle school by writing a song about her and showed it to her. she turned around and bragged to her friends that she had a song written about her. we did not date.
She probably was trying to brush it off and make it not-awkward by showing pride in that it exists but not directly acknowledging how bad you had it for her for writing it.
I was a wingwoman for my best friend once. I encouraged her to write a love poem for her crush. It read: "Here's a squirrel, here's a possum, there's a girl who thinks you're awesome." It did not work.
The best thing about most of these is that they're only really cringey because of secondhand shame. If they had worked, it would at worst be a quirky story. But, because they're left open-ended or outright describe the failure, we default to assuming that they didn't work, and it makes us cringe in embarrassment of that rejection on behalf of the redditor. It's beautiful.
Made my crush a cgi animated short movie to confess. Ended up being like 6 minutes. We watched it together and she said she liked it but didn't get the point (guess it was too artsy or something). So I just confessed right there by regular means. That was 3 months of work out the window right there.
@@TheRenegade... No, definately not good. There were tons of technical mistakes and my usual issue of expecting impossible from myself and imagining things that are just too big for a single-person project instantly decapitated the whole movie. But hey, I actually really enjoyed the process though and it was a good learning experience.
Hey could you upload it to RU-vid? I wanna see how good your animating is and what that animation is about (I understand if you don’t wanna it makes total sense to me so don’t feel obligated to)
"She was Swedish not French" I DIED INSIDE, singing opera is not easy, that poor man who learned how to pronounce all those words and sing to only find out she's not even French 😭😭
@@Kat-mu8wq This doesn't even make any sense as a statement. Culture is a big influence, but it's not such a big influence that EVERY French person and EVERY Swedish person are so different that they can always be reliably distinguished just based on personality! But even if they were, how could ANYONE from the Americas (not just the US!) be expected to tell the difference, if they've never met either one before and therefore don't know what either one is like? And same question if you were actually talking about accents. Can any random European reliably tell the difference between a Canadian and an American, without asking? Should I make fun of them if they can't? Should I say "oNlY a eUrOpEaN wOuLdN't bE aBlE tO tElL." Even if it were true, it would be an asinine thing to say, because why would anyone expect any different?!
1. Almost all points you made were dumb. 2. I can tell the difference between a canadian and american accent, however it's not the same because Swedish and French are vastly different, and aren't at all the same language lmao@@NoriMori1992
Not me, but another kid had a massive crush on this girl in fifth grade. On the day before Valentine's Day, he was looking for someone with experience to write a poem for him. Since I was really good with rhyming/poetry, he actually paid me to make a poem. I worked on it for about three hours, and I even made a "realistic" portrait of the girl that, now that I recall, looked like a Picasso drawing. I had to hide it behind a dresser so that my mom wouldn't think that I was the person who had a crush on her. Spoiler alert, almost everyone in the school knew I was paid to make a poem. Fortunately, the person's crush didn't know yet. I gave it to him, and he read it out loud to her in front of the entire class. The amount of disappointment on both of our faces when she started crying and ran out the room. He got rejected, and my poem was garbage. It was so bad that, when I met her again in 9th grade (I was homeschooled in 7th and 8th grade), I learned that she was lesbian. I then revealed that I was the person who actually made that poem, and we laughed about it. We became good friends for the rest of high school.
My crush had a condition that caused her to walk weirdly, like the feet would point inwards instead of forward. For some reason, I thought she would like me more if I walked the same way, so I spent an entire day trying to get everyone to believe that I had the same condition as her. When I came home, my parents asked me why the hell I was walking like that. I told them that's how I've always walked. Soon after, I realized how stupid that was and just walked normally again, and nobody ever brought it up again
I tried kicking the hat off of my then-crush some 17 years ago whilst we were at work and ended up kicking him in the head by mistake. I was his manager at the time, and obviously very mature and refined. We have been married since 2008, so I think it was a success.
Back in middle school, I had a crush on an EXTREMELY sheltered girl, while I had the opposite background of unrestricted internet access from a young age. So sometimes to get her attention, I’d just tell her the most horrifying thing I could think of at any given time. The shocking bit is this actually WORKED half the time, she thought some of it was hilarious, and we actually ended up good friends :)
Lol that’s kind of how I started dating my ex. Told him about Chris Chan and other lolcows, couple days later we said we had mutual feelings, we were together for a year.
I had this friend in middle school who would tell me animal facts. Being super into zoology myself I’d try to one-up him. I always thought he was passionate about animals but sophomore year he admitted that he had a crush on me
So, basically, I was absolutely OBSESSED with this boy in my orchestra class, couldn't stop thinking about him, finally decided to confess my feelings. I decided to write something and put it in his locker, but instead of writing a note that said "i kinda like you" like a normal human being, I decided to write him a TWO PAGE long poem rambling on and on about his "yElLoW-tInTeD sKiN" and his "gOrGeOuS hOoDeD bRoWn EyEs" that "gLeAm LiKe HoNeY iN tHe SuN" . Long story short, he didn't read it, wrote "return to sender" on it, gave it to one of my freinds to give to me, I cried for 2 days, and now half the school knows that I used to like him and also that I wrote him a 2 page goofy ahh poem. I honestly feel like I got the worst possible outcome. Oh, and he's in Honors English. So am I. We're gonna be in the same class next year. That should be... *fun* .
@@jackeroni216 Well she said yes to the dance, but as friends. Then there was a whole thing where i thought she liked me and i told people we were going together (bc they asked, i wasn't bragging or anything lol) and she got really mad at me for telling people bc they thought she liked me and were asking her about it. So yk not the best situation. We're friends now tho so at least i didn't kill the friendship lmao.
Sort of thing I wish I’d done instead of try to ask her out in front of all my friends, get a friend to do the talking and run away out of embarrassment.
I don’t know how cringe this is, but I’ve been told by countless people who were there that it’s the cringiest thing they ever saw in their life. I once left love notes and letters to a boy in my class for almost three months. I had/have horrible social anxiety, so actually talking to him was pretty much impossible. Some of them had poems that I wrote(I don’t think they were THAT cringe but they were written by a 15 year old so-) some of them told him stuff about me(but never so specific that it was obvious it was me) and some of them talked about stuff I knew he was going through. Everybody knew he had a secret admirer, but nobody knew it was me. He was pretty popular too, so like half the school was absolutely determined to find out who it was. I’m actually not sure how I got away with this for so long. Eventually I told my “friend” that it was me. Worst mistake of my life. The entire school knew the next day. I was bullied so much I almost had to switch schools, and I avoided my crush like the plague afterwards.
When I was thirteen, I wrote some girl I had a crush on a page of sappy poetry where I compared her eyes to emeralds and talked about her flowing golden hair. Only good thing was, I wasn't brave enough to sign it. So I stuck it in her locker. Next class I saw her reading it, I was getting ready to get up and declare I was the author when she called a group of her friends over and they spent a good fifteen minutes reading it outload to the entire class and laughing their arses off and talking about what a desperate doofus the boy must have been who wrote it.
@@ManEatingTiger nah shut your ass with dodged a bullet shit, they were fucking kids who'll grow up, realise how fucked up this was for the better. I was a messed up kid at 13 bc they're immature and do not realise the extent of the consequence of their actions, jfc
It wasn't THAT cringe, but it was a bit creepy in retrospect. In middle school I sneaked into my crush's classroom during recess and filled her backpack with like a bucket worth of paper flowers and a 4 verse poem (that barely rhymed) folded like a little book. Thinking back, I felt bad and embarrassed about it for a while, but a couple years later she randomly messaged me saying she found it in between some other old stuff and felt nostalgic about it. So it ended well, I guess.
Being very _something_, probably ocd, I had done a lot of things over the course of 5 years, including (but not limited to) begin to learn a (specific) language, trade candy, follow hobbies...I didn't ever show my feelings before I was gently declined through ghosting, I believe... The thing that I did that relates to this is folding beautiful little silver origami roses with a leaf out of gum wrappers for her. I liked origami, so it was on-brand, but I handed her/showed her one that she gave back, and the others got stolen by someone who had assumed that they were worth a lot less than the craftsmanship gave them... She was very pretty and nice, and pretty cool, but I think I destroyed one of her closest friends, that being me, and that is mainly the lasting sorrow from that relationship.
@@kelen_tate yeah, that reply was two weeks ago...I don't remember why I included that. That kind of adoration probably wouldn't actually reflect any of the handful of possible disorders/spectrums that I may have one of...
That reminds of a bit from an episode of some show I watched with my sister when we were kids. I remember none of the context, but one character told another character: “Your eyes sparkle like the ocean.” The other character replied: “My eyes are brown.” The first character, without missing a beat, corrected himself: “Your eyes sparkle like the Hudson River.”
I wasn’t trying to win the girl over in this story- I _was_ the girl (yay). This boy who absolutely loved me started going to the same church as me, solely because I was. I got sick for a while and missed about three or four services. This was kids church, by the way. One day my mom came in my room and said “hey, why is there a boy trying to give you a gift for Valentine’s Day?” I knew exactly who it was, and that following Sunday, the boy went up on stage _in front of everyone_ and gave me the gift. *in front of everyone.* Mind you, there was a whole 30 minutes to an hour before the service where he could have given me the gift, but no. He waited until story time, and then gave me a box (a big one too) filled to the brim with Hershey Kisses and a stuffed elephant. He later gave me a ring.
My crush asked me: "Are you a bank, because you have my interest." I broke down laughing (Edit: Oi мне so many likes, and check replies for ya'll asking questions.)
In high school, I mailed my crush a series of notes that chronicled the story of a clown criminal (all sent without return addresses or signatures). It was supposed to be comedic, not scary. But thinking back, if I had received any kind of mysterious notes about clowns, I would have been terrified. The bad news: I ended up confessing that the clown notes were sent by me. We did not date. The good news: He didn't get mad or even seem creeped out. Years later I learned from a friend that clowns were one of his favorite things in high school (I did not know this). What luck, honestly.
The fact that he liked clowns and you didn't know this yet sent him clown stories means you two were destined for each other. Very sad to hear you didn't date!
@@impishrebel5969 I was a very strange teenager (but mostly harmless). In my head, I thought sending him a love confession (or like, just talking to him about it) was way worse than sending literally ANYTHING else. Not sure exactly why I settled on clowns - it's puzzling even to me because I really don't remember! I have plenty more examples of my embarrassing young self being embarrassing, but seeing how so many people have somehow seen this comment, I think I'll refrain from sharing lol
@@andreaa.4446 Damn, I’m sorry to hear about how the people in your school have treated you. I hope you’re able to mentally recover and that this doesn’t happen in the future
I had a GIGANTIC crush on this guy in high school, even though I had a boyfriend (he was abusive af so i didn’t care). This guy was the star tenor and I was the star alto in our high school chorus, so I asked to sing a duet with him for our “Rock Medley,” a thing the chorus did every year where we sang 70’s-80’s songs. I picked “Smooth Criminal”… which is not a duet.
I wasn’t exactly trying to impress this guy, per se, but this is definitely the most embarrassing thing I did to/in front of a crush. I was seventeen years old, in a summer theater program for adolescents. The program was doing two plays. They would perform separately for most of the run, but on opening night they’d perform together: one would perform, then there’d be an intermission, then the other would perform. The play I was in doesn’t matter for the purpose of this story. What matters is that the other play was a musical about pirates, and I had a massive crush on the boy who played Blackbeard. The thing was, despite him playing Blackbeard, he had blond hair. The plan was that he would use spray hair dye to make his hair black for the show. Anyway, on opening night, my crush and I were the first two actors to arrive. I asked the directors if there was anything I could do to help, since I was early, and they asked me if I could spray this boy’s hair. Now, I had never spray-dyed anyone’s hair before. I had no fucking clue what I was doing, but my stupid seventeen-year-old self was too excited about being alone with her crush to admit it. Seventeen-year-old me thought: “eh, you just spray it on his hair, right? How hard could it be?” This boy’s hair did end up black, but so did about half of his face. After what felt like hours, but was probably only about fifteen minutes of wet paper towels, baby wipes, frantic apologies from me, and jokes about blackface from the other actors who were arriving, we got his face mostly clean-until he put on his costume and the dye smeared again. He wasn’t mad at me, but I still feel bad about it four years later.
Not the craziest, but lives rent free in my head nonetheless. In 4th grade, there was this hot new girl who was the only girl who would play tag. So I ended up tryharding in freeze tag to impress her. It ended with me sprinting at mach 5 around a corner, smashing straight into the girl. She scraped both her knees. I just stood there in shock.
Honestly that isn't even on you, using spray on hair dye for a school play was a bad idea from the start. 100% would've still happened had someone else done it.
The last one worked bc people are weird and embracing your own weirdness and finding someone similarly weird, someone who understands, is the path to true love.
I've done too many cringe worthy things in my life to try to impress people, but none really stand out. What does stand out to me is the time I was in 5th grade and a classmate's flirting with me completely went over my head. I was in this program for accelerated learning or something like that, and aforementioned classmate and I were sitting side by side at the computers in the classroom working on some sort of research problem. We were friends and often talked and joked around, so I didn't think much of what happened. At some point, he stopped working and tapped me on the shoulder. When I turned to look at him, he started quietly and shyly singing "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction. Nearly immediately, I blurted out "Oh my gosh I love this song!" and began singing with him. A few of our classmates who knew the song even sang with us for a bit. I do recall him seeming a little upset afterwards, but I wasn't sure why. My autistic ass just thought we were having a fun time being kids singing popular songs. This happened in 5th grade and I was a college student when I finally realized that the dude wasn't acting shy and nervous because he was singing in front of other people, but because he liked me. I wad recounting this story to a friend who had attended that school with us who immediately commented, "Oh yeah! He had a crush on you. Don't you remember?" I did not remember. I never even thought that in the first place. The name of the song should have been a dead giveaway
Once my crush told me that if he were to date anyone, they would have to have watched every single episode of Adventure Time. Anyway guess what I started doing that weekend.
Wrote a bunch of poems that were much too erotic and melodramatic for our age in pizzeria napkins. We were 14 or 15 at the time. I also carved extremely melodramatic and simpy poems onto wooden desks at school, for the very same crush, several years before. Didn't get in trouble for that one, I figure, because the principal thought that I had embarrassed myself enough as it was. I was basically Milhouse back in middle/high school. Hopelessly too awkward and unattractive to notice why girls weren't into my weird romantic approach. I never carved her name in my skin with a knife, but thought about it. You'd figure that, at some point, I'd realize this shit was not working, but it took me a good ten years between elementary school and high school to realize that maybe she wasn't into me, or into my stupid romantic antics. She later came out as a lesbian, long after I stopped pining for her, and boy did I feel stupid.
I used to have an obsessive yandere and stabbed by friend in the back, making him run towards me because I had a short fuse. I, completely surprised got the principal and had to call her parents, and even that would win me over.
Ive only had one crush. Ever. So i did this for him. Found his favorite song, memorized all the lyrics. At lunch one day, I climbed up onto the auditorium stage and in the most beautiful voice i had (extremely off key), started singing, “EvEryBoDY WANtS to RulE tHe WoOOoOoRlD!” The whole thing. In front of my entire school. Learned my lesson that day.
One of my favorite strategies I used throughout elementary and middle school was the "be so subtle she doesn't even notice approach" it never worked shockingly. Other noticeable attempts include: "tell her she's beautiful every time I see her" "tell everyone (including her best friend) that I liked her and ask to keep it a secret" "make sure I'm the first to sit by her at lunch" These were all with different people and none worked
When my sister was younger, she had a crush on this guy. She heard that he liked emo gworls and that they were superrr edgy (this was a long time ago lol), so she stole all of my mom's eyeliner/ anything makeup she found that was black and wore it all to school the next day. Because she did the makeup in my room, my mom somehow found traces of the eyeliner there. She scolded me for HOURS, saying the makeup was from 'all of her life savings' or something. I don't really remember all of what she said, but I do remember being very mad at my sister. I'm a good sister though, so I didn't tell on her. Later, we found out that some of the makeup was expired and my sister had rashes on her face for a week 🤭
I was trying to figure out how to ask out my now-wife, and I was nervous at the time. A mutual friend of ours knew I liked her, and he tried to talk to me about it. This culminated in him, sitting in an armchair, across from me in a stranger's basement (there was a bearskin rug, this feels like an important detail), telling me to "Pretend I'm her, and try asking her [him] out." After about 20 seconds of me staring at him and trying to say something, he realizes that this is weird, and deadpan says "Is this uncomfortable? Do you want to stop?" Up until this point, he had proceeded as though this were a perfectly normal thing for two straight guys to do.
This is just like a scene from _The Hard Way_ with Michael J Fox and James Woods. Fox is an actor who wants to study a tough-guy cop for a movie role. Woods is the tough guy, who thinks Fox’s character is an entitled asshole. Anyway, in one scene, the cop and actor are talking about how the cop has this crush that he just doesn’t know how to express himself with. They end up doing a hilariously awkward role-play.
My mom broke her wrist while trying to impress her high school crush. I don't remember any times I significantly embarrassed myself while impressing my crush, but there was one time where I tried to be closer with my crush by ever so slightly touching his hand mid conversation, to which he violently jerked back and yelled "don't TOUCH me!" We were in 4th grade Edit: And when he found out I had a crush on him, him and his friend circled around me, he slowly approached me in the playground, smiling and shaking his head, saying my name... whilst cracking his knuckles like he was about to beat me up
That kind of seems like how an autistic person would react, as someone with asperger, when someone, like family, touches me, I have the same reaction, without the anger, although I am annoyed when they do that, I'm not a psychiatrist though, so I can't give diagnosises, but I can atleast say that much, because that might explain it. (Autistic people have that jerking back reaction to light touch.)
Worked in a place that had a Starbucks connected to it, so workers were always buying it. I asked crush if he liked any drinks from Starbucks. He told me his favorite. I bought him that drink almost every day we worked together. He accepted it kindly every time. I don't think he wanted them anymore, but he didn't want to tell me no. That's not even the cringiest thing, but it was definitely uncomfortable to finally say to him, "You can decline the drinks if you don't want them, it's okay." We never dated.
i'm under the aroace umbrella, but i remember when i was in primary i thought being "girlfriend-boyfriend" was like an upgrade from best friends or something so i thought me and my bestie (who was of the opposite gender) would be like forever friends, found out said bestie had a crush on another student when the crush was chosen as a partner and it really opened my eyes to the fact that people i love wont be obligated to love me back the same way and i toned it on the whole "we're made for each other
When I was around 19 I sent a very bad poem and cute stuffed animal to a girl in a calculus class I had a crush on, and to whom I'd spoken about three sentences prior to this. I couldn't remember the content of the poem if I tried and wouldn't reprint it if I could. I thought the poem and fuzzy koala bear came off as romantic and adorable, but in reality came off as creepy obsessed stalker. Her boyfriend (a possibility I'd never considered) came to my dorm room and threatened to beat me up if I ever contacted her again. Probably the only reason I didn't just go to the registrars office and immediately withdraw from the university in humiliation is that I had a sympathetic roommate who was present during the beating threat and he pointed out that I probably wasn't missing much with this girl if she was the kind who chose to date a lunkheaded gorilla like that. He laughed his ass off when I told him about the poem and stuffed animal, but kind of in an admiring "You're nuts, dude!" sort of way, which actually made me feel better about it. For the rest of the semester I never looked up from my desk in calculus class again, though.
Man, on the one hand, I might be creeped out if I received that, on the other hand it's really sweet? And your intentions were so pure 😭 It makes me sad you got threatened over it. For things like this, oftentimes the problem isn't the act itself. There's nothing inherently threatening about a poem and a stuffed koala. The problem is that the act is also equally associated with guys who don't have good intentions, or who have good intentions but don't know how to act right. So when something like this happens to a girl, she has absolutely no clue which type of guy did it, which is why she might get scared.
Video fifty of requesting misspelled tattoos. We have reached a long-awaited milestone, ever since "Who is THIS in my Contacts?" I have been trying my best to not miss a single video, I kept going with positive numbers, negative numbers negative omega minus numbers, and eventually, I started an impossible to end streak: numbers in the form of text. The beginning of said streak was on the 266-day-old video "Guess the Video Game from the Emojis!" You got kind of close with the "Tattoos Lost In Translation" but the tattoos in question were actually (as the title said) lost in translation, and not actually misspelled, a concerningly common example of a misspelled tattoo could be "No Regerts" and not "Small Barbecue Grill" in Chinese. Perhaps the misspelled tattoos could come off as a sequel to Tattoos Lost In Translation. As a matter of fact, I think Tattoos Lost In Translation actually was fulfilling the request of misspelled tattoos, it was just... It was... ...lost in translation. (I waited like 3 minutes until posting this to make it seem like I didn't just copy and paste it)
5:46 Which Zoro though??? The swordsman with the mask, or the swordsman with green hair? Cause that would make a big difference depending on which one.
A girl started coming to my school when I was in like fourth of fifth year and I immediately developed a massive crush on her. She was a massive My Little Pony fan, this was at the time when 'Bronies' were just starting to become a thing. So yeah, I ended up forcing myself into being a brony to try and impress her. It obviously didn't work and I basically committed social seppuku.
The fact someone wrote a fanfic reminded me of this one time in secondary school (it was a few years ago) where I had a crush on someome (who doesnt actually exist btw) and my friend made a fanfiction about us. It started out okay until I got to the bedroom scene. I will never be able to forget the disturbingly and overly large amount of detail my friend put into that scene...
@@ll-sz9fl that was years ago when I was a lot younger... So I have no idea... Tbh it was more like she was my favourite fictional character and I was obsessed and so people started shipping me with her and overtime I sort of believed it myself or something...? I don't remember lol
I’ve actually never had a cringy moment like this. However, I COULD HAVE. I liked this girl, I got her number, and we became best friends. Around June of last year, I had decided that it was time to tell her that I loved her. And you know what my plan was? Asking THROUGH TEXT. When I look back at it, it would’ve been an awful way to ask a girl out. Thankfully, I chickened out, and I kept chickening out for the next 4 and a half months. I waiting so long that SHE asked me out, IN PERSON. Which really takes balls (even though she got none). Oh, and we are still really happy together!
I’m lesbian so I had no childhood crushes bc I was confused about the whole thing. However to impress the first girl I realized I liked! She liked drawing so I pretended I did too. It’s been five years and I still draw and we started dating this year
Thats okay.. It took me 25 years to figure out I was aroace. In my teenage years while all the other girls and boys were doing hormonal things and I felt nothing, I felt like a complete and utter freak.. Like I was broken or different, I did not like it, it also caused me to be bullied for 8 years (age 8 to 16, then I dropped out of school) I tried so hard in my late teens, early 20s to date but never felt anything for anybody, tried males, females, nothing.. eventually I learnt about asexuality and all the "sub types" and I've been happily single the past 5 years. Just me and my animals, at least now I have an excuse to get 50 cats 😂😂
Something my parents told me a few years ago that I almost didn't believe and confused the hell out of us - my ex-bf phoned them on Christmas Eve, to ask if, as a Christmas present for teenage gf me, he could help them /gift-wrap my entire bedroom/ and all of my belongings... so that I would have to open them when I got home from work at 11pm on Christmas Eve?? It's just... such a weird annoying office prank?? None of us can figure out why he thought it would be a nice, helpful, romantic gesture 🤣 My parents told him no, because I had been working late every day that week and didn't need anything else stressing me out (since I was already getting home and falling asleep on the sofa most nights, then getting up at 6 to shower, eat, and leave for work again, barely even seeing my family). They were worried that this meant he had forgotten to buy me an actual present - but he came through with a pandora bracelet we'd discussed previously! He still doesn't know that I know. 😅
The last one makes sense to me. Last valentines day I wanted to get my boyfriend something valentine's themed without being generic or tacky (a nearly impossible task as Valentine's day is terrible). I decided to 3D print him a heart. An anatomically correct, life-sized, 3D printed human heart. (made of plastic, not actual cells, in case someone is reading this in 10-20 years when we finally have full organ printing). He loved it. It's a fun display piece.
That's so cool. I had something similar happen to me though it didn't have anything to do with a crush. In my high school there was a tradition that boys would give a present for each girl on the Women's Day and vice versa. For the Boy's Day the girls decided to give us plastic models of the human brain (with the subtext being rather obvious). It was tongue in cheek and everyone liked it. If anyone is wondering, it was from a shop (and no real tissues were involved :) )
4:52 When I was a high school sophomore a girl from drama club did the same thing. It was about her getting married to one of her friends for a school project (???) and getting fake pregnant with his fake baby, and her True Love (the guy playing the lead in drama that year, who had turned her down IRL multiple times) getting jealous and finally realizing his love for her. She sent it to multiple people, some of whom were in it. It was written entirely in comic sans.
@@amateurvacuum Trust me, I felt the same way reading it. It included the line "connected their lips" multiple times, and for some reason the love interest's mom showed up in half the scenes. "What" is the only possible accurate reaction.
@@QuokkaWaka It was not ironic. It was dead serious. This girl did not have an ironic bone in her body. She genuinely could not fathom that it was uncomfortable and creepy. But my God, was it hilarious.
The sheer lengths to which these people have gone to in order to impress their crushes is staggering, and I am beginning to realize that I probably haven't ever had an actual crush on anyone
Apparently I was the crush in this scenario, back when I went to public school the principals daughter invited me to the popular kids group, I kept hanging out with my little group cause I wasn't interested in romance stuff and they constantly talked about crushes in that group, but she would always end up near me when we had classes together, one day she started going off about crushes again and asked me if i liked anyone, I said I thought i might be ace cause I didn't like anyone romantically but did platonically loved my friend groups, she then proceeded to try and gasslight me into being bi or pan and kept asking me if I liked her. Years later one of my friends was like "dude she was trying to flirt with you"
@@QuokkaWaka oh it was weird as fuck, I still remember going "so I think I'm probably ace" and she just "so you're pan!? Omg do you have a crush on me!?"
@@Porter-Pumpkimh my gosh as someone who is pan,that is the most accurate thing- theyre always like "soooo…you like me???" like no you ugly af,you dont go around asking ever straight guy if he likes you so dont ask me 😭-
So, I had a psych ward romance because I kept on having mental breakdowns. This kid who roomed with me (and I lowkey had a crush on) was like "The most baller thing someone could do is swallow some orbeez and not choke." So I immediately asked for some orbeez, looked him dead in the eye and swallowed them. We proceeded to date for the next 9 months until he moved across the country.
wasn't to impress a crush, but rather I was "dating" a kid in third grade. I didn't like him like that at all but didn't want to be a dick. We started sending letters to each other and I accidentally ended everything really quickly by marking the outside of my first letter back to him with "SWAK". I had learned that acronym from a book series my mom bought me, the Katie Kazoo Switeroo series. Her mom would write her letters and mark them with "SWAK" or "sealed with a kiss". My "boyfriend's" mom was confused and peeved at my writing SWAK on the outside of my letter and called my house to find out what the hell I was doing. My mom, bless her, once I explained what was going on, helped me cover my ass. I "broke up" with my "boyfriend" not too long after that
I didn't do it on purpose, but me and my crush are actually pretty close friends and she's quite touchy, so once she grabbed my upper arm (I don't remember why) and I just reflexively flexed my biceps. The problem? I'm probably the least muscular person you'll ever see, so she just looked me dead in the eyes and said: "Oh don't worry, you don't gotta flex to impress me, there's nothing to be impressed about" and to this day she still doesn't believe me that I didn't intend on impressing her with my long noodle arms.
The fact that I think some of these are cute and would've given the person a chance after receiving them is yet another confirmation that there is something desperately wrong with me
When I was in 3rd grade, I had a crush on one of the girls in my class. One day, she passed me a note that said "Will you marry me?" And I said yes. We got in trouble for passing notes, and the teacher read it aloud in front of the entire classroom. When the my crush talked to me later about it, she claimed she was "inviting me to her friend's wedding." That day will forever live in my head as the most cringe day of my life. And in 4th grade, I asked a different girl I liked if she wanted to be my valentine. She already had one 😢.
the mental image of this has me SOBBING. like, only the hormone-addled brain of a preteen could not only come up with the concept of marching backwards really fast in the first place, but decide that it would really impress the ladies. absolutely wonderful thank you
luckily never had a crush to embarrass myself in front of. definitely done some cringey things to impress my friends tho- cut my hair like them, showed off my trivia knowledge, or my drawing skills
As a person who has friends, I would love to swap random trivia and have little drawing contests (even though I’m sinfully bad at drawing) with any one of them
8 year-old me personally delivering a Valentine's Day card to a boy I liked in a different class, during lesson time, in front of everyone. I was adamant that a "friend" had given it to me to deliver on her behalf. I think everybody knew that it was from me lol
I wanted to make this girl an album of covers of songs sang by me, however I decided to be funny, and since we both liked metal, I made half the album romantic songs and the other half heavy metal covers sang in a goofy way. To my surprise she loved it so much we’ve now been dating for almost 4 months
My "boyfriend" I had in 5th grade tried to impress me by doing a cool trick on the skating rink. He fell on his butt and awkwardly shimmied away in shame.
@@cmat911 ...we broke up because he was a pervert and would search up questionable things. He also was in my mom's class and said some sus things Abt her
In 5th grade i ate an entire box of altoids mints at once to impress the girl i liked, my eyes were watering so bad but she actually seemed mildly impressed
I remember one summer I was at my grandparents' house, and I met a kid that I thought was cute. The next summer, I put up a massive paper sign in my bedroom window to get his attention that said "Hey (kid's name), remember me?" I forgot to take it out of the window, and after I went home, my grandfather took a picture of it and sent it to my parents. I was 8 or 9 at the time, and even 9-10 years later, it still haunts me.
That last one is actually really sweet. He must have known her pretty well to know that she'd like to get something like that as a gift. Those two weirdos found each other :')
One time in high school after a particularly nasty break up with this girl I’d been dating for a year, one of my older friends did a lot to comfort and be there for me, which made me really grateful to him seeing as everyone else was… not doing that. At one point he sent me a picture of him in black and white that was very aesthetically pleasing, and I impulsively saved it. I’m an artist and I’ve always loved doing realistic portraits. I thought it would be a cool way to thank him for being such a great friend if I drew this picture of him. Anyways I showed him throughout the process, and we talked everyday anyway, and eventually he started hedging about asking about my sexuality and stuff, like “I thought you were only into girls”. I was actually starting to question this myself at the time so I gave him a vague answer, having no idea what he was getting at until he finally outright said he thought I liked him. I was so flabbergasted and had no idea what to even say. I asked why and it turned out that the dude thought I had a crush on him because I drew a fcking picture of his face? He didn’t believe me until I showed him that I had a whole sketchbook full of other people’s faces, not to mention I was still getting over my ex. And even then he still acted weird about it and I mostly stopped talking to him because it was awkward and uncomfortable. Turns out I actually am bisexual, though I never did like him that way. But it still pisses me off because I never finished the drawing which sucks because it was so good. Why do so many straight guys think every gay guy is into them? The audacity???? Heteronormativity is weird af This rant is totally pointless but I just remembered how gd annoying it was so might as well send my woes into the void
I don’t know if your gender had any influence on whether or not he thought you liked him, maybe he was just clueless or, the less appealing answer, he was trying to get with you after your breakup. You don’t have to take my word for it, I myself am a straight male, I just wanted to throw in my own theories.
I don't think someone randomly getting a well made hand drawn image and making a wrong assumption of interest is unreasonable, especially considering that hand drawn pictures of someone else has long, traditionally been a sign of attraction to another person's looks. I don't think this particular instance is a "Man assuming things about woman" thing. It's more of a "Person assumes thing about another person" thing. Doesn't matter who is drawing who really. Now him being weird/aggressive/whatever about it afterwards once you made clear that you weren't into him is a completely different thing.
@@WuhHuh haha yeah, I don’t think me being a guy really had much to do with his assumption, I just have experienced that specific reaction (to my sexuality) several too many times and so had to joke about it (I don’t actually think he specifically thought I was into him simply because of my possible bisexual nature lol, that was just an offhand jibe). But he in particular was just acting weird and passive aggressive, and made things very uncomfortable after he made the assumption and confronted me about it, which was what was so frustrating to me. I don’t know if he was homophobic or what, I just know how he treated me was a total 180. I had hoped we could quickly move past it, but evidently not. And maybe you’re right, and he did like me, and saw the whole thing as a rejection, so he decided to be an asshole about it? No idea. That would be ironic. Either way, it was a dick move. Especially since I was going through a lot of shit at the time and needed a friend.
@@liarwithagun actually, I do agree with you on this. I honestly wasn’t expecting anyone to see or comment on this 😅 so I kind of took out some context. He knew that I was into portraiture before this happened, and I know he knew because he’d seen me drawing other people, and he asked for my help on a portrait he was making for a project - among other things. I had on several occasions ranted about the specifics of drawing portraits and the objective qualities of people’s faces. (I also always asked permission of people - if I knew them - before drawing them because I know drawing somebody without them knowing can be kind of creepy.) We had been friends for a while. And I had been very vocal about my not being over my ex still at the time. Which was why I felt his assumption was contextually unreasonable. Even so, it was much less his presumption and more his reaction afterward that pissed me off. So the whole thing was more of a “guy makes an assumption about his supposedly good friend based on faulty logic and proceeds to be an asshole about it even when proven wrong”. (Not sure where you got the woman thing from; I’m a man. No big, just not sure what you meant lol). Long story short, I felt he was being presumptuous considering he was not special in the fact that I was drawing his portrait, and he should have been aware of that.
Yikes, sorry about the long replies. Wasn’t expecting anybody to comment, so I felt I needed to clarify that that last bit of my original comment was entirely a joke lol. Obviously I wasn’t too upset about the presumption itself - it was confusing to me, but I wasn’t going to hold it against him long. What I do feel genuinely angry about is that he decided we could no longer be friends after that, during a time when I was in desperate need of a loyal friend.
I went to horse camp (as one does) when I was twelve or thirteen. There was like, one boy in my entire class. His name was Colin, but in my thirteen-year-old mind he was practically Aragorn from Lord of the Rings in that scene where he whispers to the horse. I was madly in love with Colin for exactly two weeks. One day, I tried to impress Colin by tacking up the meanest horse without getting kicked. I got kicked. I did not impress Colin.
Yk, I've been going riding to this one place for a couple months (been riding longer, just at this place a few months specifically) and ONE TIME, I saw a cute looking boy. I'm going to horse camp there this summer, and I really hope he's there.
How the fck did you not impress him. I'm impressed, just by your courage that's borderline to self destructive audacity. You would have gotten me with this. (Who takes the chance to get physically kicked, only to impress or flirt with someone deserves my fullest respect)
I had a crush on a girl for a while, but she went to a different college then me. Were both in my discord server, and a lot of the time I couldn't resist talking about rhe fact that I had a crush in my server. I just wouldn't say it was her. This went on for literal months until I started talking about possibly asking her out on valentines day. She happened to post on her instagram story that she liked someone and was really sad because she was sure the person she liked didnt like her back. I was so excited about this, especially since she used "they/them" pronouns. (However, I didn't know if she was using those pronouns for me or if she was using them to keep the gender of her crush a secret, since she's bi) I wasn't really thinking so I went into my discord server freaking out since I found out my crush had a crush. Here's the thing though, I have a decent following on instagram, so I get a few hundred views on every one of my stories. I forgot that this isn't the case for most people, so I stupidly assumed she wouldn't find out I was talking about her. It turns out only two people saw that story, one of them being me. Yeah. She instantly knew. Turned I was her crush and we started dating immediately after that. She's now the love of my life.
ok so back in middle school, i had a crush on this really cute party girl who had dyed purple hair. i tried to learn to skate, broke my arm. tried to learn how to act really well, got laughed at. one time, that has stuck with me for years, i got really good at playing all star on guitar.. i tried to show her and she just deadpanned 'im not gay' AND LEFT ME THERE DUMBSTRUCK bc she literally had a lesbian flag on her bag 😭
I’m an aroace woman with ASD. I was the most oblivious little high schooler when it came to love and romance. Also relevant, I was taking a medication that caused my acne to explode for about 2 years. One time a boy who sat next to me in chemistry told me “you… like could be a model, like uh if it weren’t for the acne.” The awkward comment flew right over my head and I spent the rest of the day wondering what kind of sick dare or prank that was. I told my parents at home and my dad had this look of empathetic disappointment and then I realized. And fuck it I’ll dunk on myself too. I stayed after for robotics and the president was cool so I wanted to be friends. We were working on a design for next year, but we didn’t have the props for the upcoming challenge. My oblivious virgin ass walked over to this guy with two balls I found in the closet in one hand and said “here you can use these as your test-ies” Because I was a socially inept wide eyed nerd I was trying to mimic being modern by adding “ies” at the end of a verb (like zoomies or munchies) and IN TRYING TO BE SUAVE AND SHOW I WAS A COOL FRIEND I COMPLETELY MISSED THE INNUENDO EVERYONE ELSE SAW AT A GLANCE AND I PROCEEDED TO DIE AS I REALIZED WHAT I HAD JUST DONE 2 SECONDS TOO LATE.
@@the.seagull.35Acne is temporary, beauty lasts, well …somewhat longer at least. And let’s be honest, acne doesn’t look good on photos, so he had a point. Or maybe I think that bc I’m autistic but very much romantic/sexual so it sounds like some of my own awkward attempts at complimenting ppl.😅
I played I’m with you by Vance Joy to impress a girl I liked, got completely no zoned, but the song made her friends cry. One of them ended up commissioning me for a private gig
I had my fair share of cringy moments in high school as my hormones were ragi g and any girl that gave me attention turned to crush for a semester. Glad i never did anything as bad as the thing in this vid. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night
I absolutely adore your content Matt. When my cat died I immediately thought of you and watched you right when I got home to cheer me up. You’ve helped me through a lot Matt. Thank you
Once I tried to impress my crush by writing him a heartfelt email (I was 12) and linked a Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift song. Both songs were about break-ups.
2:55 i did something following that logic. In middle school, my most awkward time, i would look at people as i walked past them because thats how the game tells you in harvest moon if your friendship value was a certain level. I regret many things in middle school.
I had tried to impress some of the boys in my old art class by drawing insanely bad pictures of Hulk and Superman because I was convinced that they were obsessed with those kind of things. lol I remember them going "meh" when I showed it to them
Watching Matt absolutely read about cringe things people did to impress their crush is well all the content I was looking for..... if I was listening to a love song.
The comment above yours says "Watching Matt absolutely trash on people that did cringey things is absolutely the peak content i signed up for." Either you get off on writing broken nonsencical sentences or you are a bot.
My friend in school had a boy ask her out, and deciced to think it over. One lunch time he came over and as tgey talked she got rlly awkward and so started flapping her hands around Him: Why are you moving your hands so much? Her: I don't know.. maybe im beat boxing? *Proceeds to make embarrassing beat boxing sounds* She'll never forget that day
My childhood crush? A lot of cringy things. Maybe too many to mention. But my personal highlight would have to be whenever I’d go to my crush’s house, I would hide in her closet before I had to go, hoping my mom would give up looking for me and go home, so then I could live with my crush forever. Obviously, my mother wasn’t as dumb as nine year old me thought, and saw through my bullshit scheme every time. Edit: My brother wanted to add his. He called his crush a dog in middle school. For context, he’s a HUGE dog person, and thought that was a compliment, since dogs are cute. Edit 2: I also thought of something really cringy that this guy who had a crush on me tried to do to impress me. He would take screenshots from his favorite soap operas and movies, and photoshop both his and my face on the lead couples, and post it on Facebook for all our mutual friends and families to see. He also got really mad when I told him it was giving me the creeps and asked him to stop. Eventually had to get a restraining order. Edit 3: My mom also converted to being a Jehovah’s Witness for a good five years or so. Turns out he was a sociopath that pretended to believe whatever his victims did. When asked about it now, she tries to claim she was just “going undercover” to “figure him out” but a few weeks before she started inviting a couple of them over for Bible studies, she basically admitted she was doing this if “we have any chance to be happy together.” Sorry. I’m done now.
