There's a process now. You want to hang out with him? She has to have met you. She has to have approved you. There's a guy in this friend group who has known him since they were nine years old and he has been waiting four months for a "group dinner" that keeps getting rescheduled. Nine years. Four months on the waitlist. Someone posted about this exact dynamic on Reddit two weeks ago and it hit 34k upvotes in a day. The comments are people sharing timestamps — exactly when their friend group started dying. Some of them go back to 2019. The thread reads like a support group and it's genuinely moving and also absolutely devastating. The OG commenter replied to say the friend group is fully gone now. Took 14 months total.