#peer pressure made me do it

[conqueeftador]

still too spicy for a tuesday afternoon 🌶

#peer pressure made me do it #nonna would not be pleased #🍎 #body image #yall win

[ganondoodle]

said this on tiwtter too but im seriously at my limit, people go and be all like "oh my god young people have no idea of basic internet security omggggg" and the same person will immediately make an account on t/hreads that is stealing so much data from you its basically one step away from straight up kidnapping

i get we are all desperate, i really do, but i WILL judge you if you go and sign up for the literally shittiest app on earth thats really just a flimsy disguise of a bunch of data suckers in a trench coat

use tumblr, cohost, pillowfort, (the latter two also allow nsfw) ANYTHING but that suckerberg leech i am BEGGING you

idk how accurate it is but i saw the numbers of 75 MILLION sign ups for the threads bs, what the hell are you doing, i feel like im in one of those old anti technology comics were young people just walk off a cliff en masse bc they only look at their phone and nothing else while im the old guy in a chair watching them do it

#ganondoodles talks #are people seriously this blindly signing up for anything new a big -KNOWN SHITTY AF- corporation is putting out #isnt it literally just like insta but worse #like #if you dont like tumblrs layout or whatever theres also cohost #its basically like twitter but also has features of timblr #like having multiple blogs to on account #idk man i actually feel like im going crazy #what is this #this has made me feel more old than the knowledge that lil kids are doing a flat hand gesture for phones bc all they know are smart phones #if people are ACTUALLY making that thing be the next giant “”social media“” i will not forgive them #you will not peer pressure me there #-when i say at my limit im at my limit of desperate confusion watching people do the dumbest shit but going uwu the entire time doing it-

[twobites]

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Image 1: Still from The Social Network of Mark leading Eduardo outside the party.

Image 2: Connor McDavid and Dylan Strome talking inside an arena.

Image 3: Transcript from The Social Network. MARK: “I’m afraid if you don’t come out here you’re going to get left behind. I want - I want - I need you out here, please don’t tell him I said that.” EDUARDO: “What did you just say?” MARK: “It’s moving faster than any of us ever even imagined and -” EDUARDO: “What do you mean get left behind?”

Image 4: Still from The Social Network of the above scene.

Image 5: 2015 headline from The Star, “Dylan Strome happy to develop in Connor McDavid’s shadow”

#i know there is an audience for this because when i was reading tsn fic i was all do these people only write hockey??? #and now here i am. #this whole post was made because of the first two images like it's literally just about the aesthetics #look i really do not think mcstrome are mark/wardo coded they are closest to the stuck in the phone call second act #like first nhl season you are back home in the east coast and the pressure is kind of getting to me. i don't need you but i want you #but if i don't need you then i won't have you! #THAT BEING SAID (sol spiceberrie has suffered so much because of me) #andrew being beloved and acclaimed (not by the oscars) and lots of male peers but jesse fucking off to raise a family after a lone breakout? #that's...not nothing! #mcstrome #1997 #dyn: wishbone #talky #i want to say i would have posted this eventually. but i made it today because sol

[builtyouahousefromabrokenhome]

Oh this explains exactly why I hated Mean Girls:

Because jesus christ NO!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT o_O;;;

My family moved around a lot so I transferred schools a lot lol, often in the middle of the school year too. Thanks to that I experienced a wide variety of social dynamics. In the worst, most hierarchic and 'kill or be killed' schools, I was a weirdo outsider, sometimes with literally no friends (which was fine; I knew that wouldn't last forever, bc we were probably going to move again in a couple years). In other schools where there was much less hierarchy and performance, and much more solidarity and camaraderie, I had a lot of friends and was part of many social groups.

Is your school, workplace, family etc. shit? Well, it's not like that everywhere!

You don't have to ruin your life, sell your soul or abandon all morals trying to 'fit in' when the system is shit.

YOU CAN RESIST THE SYSTEM.

#honestly #this kind of reasoning is just making up excuses for your horrible behaviour #'no but everyone else was doing it!!!!' #'we only did it to protect ourselves!!!!!^1' #'we did it because we desired to be accepted!!!!' #fuck off #that's what people holding up other fascist systems tell themselves too #lol #peer pressure is one of the most pathetic things in the world #and cause for so much stupid and horrible shit #oh and 'look!!! in this fictional story EVERYONE is mean! even the home schooled kid and the kids who really want to be kind!!!' #'so that's exactly how it works in real life too!! because the story wasn't made up or influenced at all by an author or anything!!!!' #(lol sorry for the rant ig but i've been mainlining dan and phil for the last few months) #(and dan talks a lot about his horrible school experiences which has made me think a lot about weird school experiences too :( )

[azurechicken]

not the way they ask me to work without pay for a whole day after all that I've done out of my work hours already I hate it I hate it I hate itttttt

#I wanna quit so bad I wake up everyday wishing I didn't exist so I didnt have to work for this fucking job #my coworker bestie is like i wouldnt be able to do this without you and i feel bad for quiting but its just so bad for me uhhhhh #the peer pressure im feeling from this............. #i can find smth else but she is in a worse spot than me so i dont wanna leave her behind like this helpppp #should i just do it? 🥹 #sorry for getting personal on this account i made for talking about my sad wet wizard wives #personal post

[grendelsmilf]

has anyone actually experienced peer pressure to drink/smoke/do drugs when they didn’t want to or is that just a myth.... ive literally never been in a space with anyone who tried to press me after i said “no thanks im good” . no one has ever demanded an explanation from me or whatever. the idea that people are actively invested in you not being sober is so baffling, like what kind of absolute freak would you have to be to actively give a shit??? seems like war on drugs propaganda to me

#frankly I’ve never been ‘peer pressured’ into doing ANYTHING im pretty sure that’s made up in general! #although i acknowledge that i do give off ‘do not fuck with me’ vibes so maybe my experiences are not universal #o

[spillthebea]

james potter has supersperm

#jily #jegulus #peer pressure made me do this #i do not disagree tho

[amandabe11man]

so me and my friend are onto season 4 of X-files now and we got to the csm-centric episode, right. and when he put the sniper rifle up from the window at the start I was like "whoa there. jfk assassination much?"-- and then the flashback starts and wouldn't you fucking know it, csm was the one who killed jfk??

this made me joke about how "what is he, the dark version of forrest gump or something? lmao" (ie. being present at a bunch of historical happenings), and then it seems like I was right because after that, he killed martin luther king too... aND TH E N towards the end, they make a fuckin forrest gump reference???

guys I think I'm finally becoming psychic

#x files #anyway good season so far #'the field where I died' was another good one #this ep was fun too ngl cause I'm afraid I love to hate this guy #I love how it shows how /weak/ csm actually is #seems like he just gets swept up in shit all 'okay I guess I'm doing this now (hashtag powertrip)' #dude has all the agency over a bunch of others but he has no agency over himself #he couldn't even resist the peer pressure to start smoking. bruh #and he couldn't even follow through with it when he tried to /stop/ smoking either #and then when he thought he was gonna get a big break as an author and was like 'fuck yeah I'll resign from the evil job now' #..but then the editors changed the ending when publishing it so he was like 'nvm. fuck everything. violent path it is then' #that whole thing reminded me so much of john in Saw X too when he thought he'd been cured- #-so he threw away the trap-sketches he was making. guy was gonna straight up quit being jigsaw bc he thought he would get to live after all #wait a sec.... john has cancer and is a villain... csm is called 'cancerman' and is also a villain........ [connecting dots in my mind rn] #but yeah um-- back to what I was saying- this ep somehow made csm a bit less infuriating for me? #cause now we got to see that actually he doesn't have everything under control. in fact it's like he barely has a will of his own #bro has zero conviction. barely any willpower. no life. if he fails at something once- that's it. he'll quit trying forever #he's literally a loser. we love to see it #(also wtf I didn't think deep throat would be the one who argued FOR killing that alien while csm was the one who questioned it?) #(but deep throat SAID to mulder later that he regretted the things he'd done an d he helped the good guys in the end so....) #(deep throat had his redemption arc. love that guy....except for when he killed the alien. that wasn't cool)

[rainerghost]

So some of my friends (who are fans of tadc) fucking kin assigned me to some character that's just a bunch of shapes or something (I think the characters name was like Zooby or something I don't fucking know). This is my breaking point. I'm finally fucking watching it.

#PeerPressureWorks #this is my breaking point i need to know if theyre correct or not #apparently half the reason why they think that this character is just like me fr fr is because of genderness #i swear to god #ive resisted for so long #(im not actually mad i just like being a dramatic motherfucker) #In elementary school #everyone told me that people would be peer pressuring me to do drugs or alcohol and stuff but no. I've been peer #pressured into watching a silly little cartoon that im 99% sure is also animated by whoever made Lil runmo (which #btw #fucking adore Lil #runmo) and that also got insanely popular in the span of like #2 microseconds (seriously how the fuck did that happen did they make a #blessing with the algorithm god or something? Were ritual sacrifices a part of this?).

[pantestudines]

having a "former gifted kid" type mental spiral

#i say this because the spiral is actually about how much i hate the word and the general culture around giftedness #mostly because its incredibly inconsistent between schools so people often mean different things when they say it #but also because in my specific case its certainly not a gift but like. what am i supposed to call it. #its literally a neurodivergence in my case that has had many effect postive and negative on my life. but its also a school club. #and its also nothing! before the advent of like modern standardized public education i wouldve just been a curious kid #Without modern public education im not sure i wouldve even been different from other kids. maybe a little socially awkward still but idk #and like. Am i really different from other kids? am I now as an adult different from my peers? Occasionally i will get told as such #how the fuck am i suppose to talk about how much being seperated from my peers and held to higher standards sucked #when the name of the reason why this happened might as well be 'gods specialist little boy' #none of the things that make people think im smarter are really all that useful day to day. and most non-gifted people are like. still smar #i happen to be good at memorizing the kind of facts schools test you on as children #but is that just because i was told as a kid to be good at school and so i tried hard to do that? #even if I am uniquely good at that #does that really make me more intelligent than the high school dropouts who can fix cars like its nothing? #in fact i would say they are at least wiser than me for picking something practical to be smart at #at my school being gifted usually implied you were a little neurodivergent and bad at socializing #often our gifted kids were actually failing classes because they were smart enough to realize they didnt matter #(not me but still) #but at some schools being gifted just means you were an avid reader or were pressured by your parents to maintain perfect As at all times #so if i say. wanted to talk about how being 'gifted' has often made some aspects of academia like hating emails and having time blindness #and not having a good friend network and having many unadressed issues around not really knowing how to make friends #if i wanted to talk about that. and i say 'I was gifted growing up and this sucked' #the person on the other end might hear 'oh woe is me im so smart and this makes my life so hard' #AND FURTHER STILL #on tumblr especially 'former gifted kid' has kindve become parlance for 'guy whining about nothing' #or even 'person who they were told was smart but is actually kinda dumb' #which... yeah! theres a reason many former gifted kids are like that! thats kindve my issue with the program in the first place! #it takes otherwise relatively normal if well achieving kids and tells them they are gods specialist little children. #THIS CANNOT BE HELPFUL TO ANYONE? like whatever chance the kids had at seeming normal has been stripped away #and they now also think they are the smartest person in the room in every situation

[hardrockshrimp]

I am holding up. Well.

#WHEN I TELL YOU #i went to go piss at a jimmy johns nearby and saw Richard across the street at the bus and decided to try to talk to him #the most cheesiest 'omg are you from orbit culture' and i had my fanny pack with all the sock puppets in them #and decided to just do it now [great idea bc the venue was so small they couldnt be at the merch table after the show] #and nick was there!!!! #also ben their touring guy um #BUT NICK WAS THERE #i was like 'um i made sock puppets of you guys' and theyre both like WHAT #and this is making me think that... maybe sock puppets are a mainly american thing? someone correct me if im wrong lol #but it seems like they didnt know what the hell i was talking about #but i was like shaking putting one of them on to like. demonstrateIWKGISKVOSKJV #and nick was like oh my god like he was speechless im gonna fucking fjksigkshflajvlsof #and they were so sweet about it and let me take a picture of them with them #the openings were too small for their hands [loud breathing thinking about how big their hands are] but nick tried to put them on anyways 🥺 #and ben also took a picture and posted it on the orbitculturefans ig acc EEEEEEEEEE #hes like lol look out for these in a music video like SHUT UP I WOULD DIEEEEEEE #so if i ever see these in the background of touring vlogs/stories etc i will bawl my eyes out #orbit culture #spencers little things #im so happy i decided to peer pressure my friend who can drive to take me i think they enjoyed some of it and wants to go to more shows now #but!!!!!! really hoping they do a US headline tour soon pleaseeeee i would love to see a full setlist from them #anyways this is one of the cutest things ever #also nick shook my hand before they left EEEEEEE HE WAS SO SWEET I LOVE HIMMMM STTOTOPPPPP HES MY EVERUHTJGJ

[angel-archivist]

My favorite part of all the squip blog nonsense was that I literally created 3 separate fake personas that i played like real people in order to convince an adult woman that my blogs were run by multiple people cuz it was easier to fake being a different person then to admit I wanted to make a squip roleplay blog. 

#I was like out as nonbinary at the time and went by Will #so 'Will' befriended this one woman first and she helped me write edit and write stuff (she also peer pressured me into making my queer #story straight lol) #so she makes a squip blgo n im like cool that seems like a lot of fun! #so i decide to make one under the alias 'Abby' and I pretended I was a school friend of 'wills' but i was old #er then they were #and then I made the like a squip blog w like the actual characters from the movie but then i realized i wanted to make an oc one #but that was too cringe to do on my own #so i spent over a month introducing a seperate mod named 'John' #onto the blog and created a whole new art style to pass it off as my own #and i was deep in it now you know i was lying to this lady on the daily #creating multiple skype accounts to keep up the act #finally I made my squip blog axctually made friends on it realized i was transmasc #and totally ditched the character of abby #and like fully adapated john as who i was #while still also being will with my other friends who i made from roleplaying myself #i kind of had a problem inventing fake people and pretending to be them LOL #but yeah i feel no guilt and i would do it again #she turned out to be a p*do so no remorse #eventually they found out and iw as just like lol yeah sorry I lied to you for 3 years

[whumpy-words]

I literally "one weird trick"'ed my brain into writing a ridiculous amount of words in a day, and now I'm both awed and deeply, deeply worried

#not whump #my post #the weird trick is a very specific type of shared word sprint #and i do not know why it works #because usually peer pressure does NOTHING for my writing #(neither good nor bad) #but somehow THIS made me do some big big numbers #and it's WEIRD i tell you

[mossy-tendencies]

cant believe im making amogus ocs in the year of our lord, 2022.

anyway here’s joule. i would die for him

#among us #among us oc #what have i become #made this super quick because I Have Other Things To Do #ty frenrey server for peer pressuring me into going back to my roots #joule would adopt you ON SIGHT. WATCH OUT!!!

[sound--life]

ugh

#realizing you (probably) like someone is so hard to deal with as a demisexual #like #liking someone is in itself a form of commitment #you want someone to also like you but you don't want to pressure them or assume #and you're constantly doubting your own feelings #like do i like this person for them or am i falling victim to other people's expectations? #i had two short high school relationships that were the latter #in hindsight the two guys were just really good friends i have made #but societal and peer pressure made me think the next logical step was to date them #and with this current person i don't want to make that kind of mistake #because they deserve better than that #and i don't want to just take all my hopeless romantic tendencies #and pin it on someone i'm friends with just to fill a gap in my daydreams #but i'd like to think i know myself well enough now to know the difference #but i don't KNOW but i think i DO like them #and it's just such a weird thing for me but also kind of exciting #it feels so weird to think of someone else and just think #'i would do anything to keep this person from feeling sad' #or 'i get so happy whenever i talk to this person' #or the biggest thing for me is that #i am comfortable with physical touch with this person and always have been #and that's WEIRD for me cuz normally i'm very 'NO TOUCHY' #anyway i'm gonna shut up now and go back to reading

[magizombi]

I hate working in market research

#literally never thought id say this #but i miss working in a kitchen fr #i wish i hadnt quit my last job #it was perfect #hhhh #im so bad at succumbing to peer pressure #n of course i did what my fp/fiance wanted me to do bc thats how i am #im getting better at doing my own thing but #ugh i made a mistake #at least im good at it and its not really hard but #sigh #zombi.txt