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Self- Writeousness | The Friend Zone Sucks Because... @SelfWriteousness | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
So once in a while, pop culture-related word or set of words has enough staying power to weasel its way into our permanent vocabulary. Sometimes, those words are super helpful in identifying a hitherto unnamed concept like "Gaslighting." "Friend Zone," on the other hand...

00:00 The set up: Gaslight and other concepts born of fiction
01:58 TV writers vs. Everyone else
03:15 What the "Friend Zone" is (according to VSauce)
03:37 Who's responsible for popularizing the "Friend Zone"
04:51 Criticism of the "Friend Zone"
05:52 How the "Friend Zone" could be good, actually
06:31 Why the "Friend Zone" is an objectively stupider concept than "Gaslight"
07:53 Friendship is awesome and scarce
09:15 Friendship with romance potential vs. "Friend Zone" material as illustrated by Jane Austen
11:17 Why there's blame to share amongst the genders for the damage caused by "Friend Zoning"

Mr. VSauce's probably superior video
youtube.com/watch?v=IGK2KprU-To&pp=ygURdnNhdWNlIGZyaWVuZHpvbmU%3D

Casually Explained
youtube.com/watch?v=-xPjsTyS4lY&pp=ygUdY2FzdWFsbHkgZXhwbGFpbmVkIGZyaWVuZHpvbmU%3D

The compulsory Wikipedia article
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_zone

Emma 1996
youtube.com/watch?v=tysKHLahFFM&pp=ygUZZW1tYSB3aXRoIGthdGUgYmVja2luc2FsZQ%3D%3D

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