Status Updates From Heartbreak Boys

“Of course that’s occurred to me. They’re nothing if not sly! But that doesn’t matter. It’s what other people think that matters, and what they will think is that they’re popular and successful and being courted by fashion companies”.

And here we see a crazy part of the chronically soc-med effects, ‘being fake’ as the normal thing to do, making the opinion of others the highlight

in the BARN omfg

the voices are wayyyyyy too similar i can’t tell them apart 😭😭

"Hooray!" I say, and immediately start arranging us all in the best formation--Leila in the middle, me and Nate flanking her, Elliot in front, on his knees. My proposal that we all pretend to be looking at something random and strange in the distance is accepted, and we all pose with expressions which vary between wonder, disgust, and horror, with Leila actually pointing at the pretend thing, whatever it actually is.

Jack's just acting like everything's cool, but he must have noticed I'm barely talking to him. "So the hot tub pic went down a storm," he says to me. "It's an absolutely mint photo--looks really glamorous--laughter, bubbles, hot teens in a hot tub!"
"Good." At least that's something. I hope Tariq's seen it. I hope I was laughing in the picture. "It's unlikely, but I hope it.