{"id":341826,"date":"2026-02-17T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/341826\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:19:10","slug":"her-friend-has-been-mean-when-this-woman-talks-about-her-interests-beyond-their-shared-love-for-k-pop-and-the-confrontation-led-to-a-weird-response-twistedsifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/341826\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Friend Has Been Mean When This Woman Talks About Her Interests Beyond Their Shared Love For K-Pop, And The Confrontation Led To A Weird Response \u00bb TwistedSifter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pexels\/Reddit<\/p>\n

Some friendships are built on a flimsy foundation.<\/p>\n

This woman was wondering why her friend had been acting weird whenever she talked about her other interests. When she confronted her K-pop-loving friend about it, they gave her a response that she couldn\u2019t wrap her head around.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a> below.<\/p>\n

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I (22F) had a friend (22NB), whom I\u2019ll call Andy, for over 10 years. We\u2019re no longer friends for a multitude of reasons, but this situation has continued to bother me.<\/p>\n

For about a year before our friendship ended, Andy had been acting weird whenever I spoke about my interests.<\/p>\n

Whether I was talking to them or to others around them, they would become standoffish, passive-aggressive, condescending, and even go as far as infantilizing me anytime I talked about my favourite things, like F1, cool edits I found, or other things I enjoyed.<\/p>\n

Some background info: one of the things Andy and I originally became best friends over was our shared love of K-pop, something we have been interested in since around 2016 and admitted to each other in high school.<\/p>\n

Since then, it has been a pretty present part of our lives. Even as they started acting weird about my interests, I always made time for theirs. We talked about K-pop news, I listened to new groups and songs they wanted to show me, and I curated playlists of our favourite songs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This woman finally confronted her friend about his weird behavior.<\/p>\n

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I found out that they were aware of how poorly they were treating me\u2014something I had unfortunately attributed to their poor mental health\u2014because one day, while we were shopping, they brought it up.<\/p>\n

They seemed like they didn\u2019t even want to be talking about it, but more like they felt obligated.<\/p>\n

They told me the reason they had been acting that way was that they were \u201cafraid I didn\u2019t like K-pop anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t even know what to say, so I told them that, yes, I was hurt by the way they treated me and my interests. That was the end of the conversation, but things never got much better.<\/p>\n

Am I the jerk for talking about my other interests?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Maybe K-pop is not a strong enough glue to keep this friendship bonded.<\/p>\n

Other people in the comments section are sharing their two cents.<\/p>\n

Truth hurts.<\/p>\n

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A sensible observation.<\/p>\n

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This person makes a solid point.<\/p>\n

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This user finds the story relatable.<\/p>\n

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And people are taking her side.<\/p>\n

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Superficial friendships need to end eventually.<\/p>\n

If you thought that was an interesting story, check this one out about a man who created a points system for his inheritance, and a family friend ends up getting almost all of it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pexels\/Reddit Some friendships are built on a flimsy foundation. This woman was wondering why her friend had been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[5409,161920,18,117,5643,1330,19,17,5404,337,5417,3408,4612],"class_list":["post-341826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-aita","tag-condescending","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-f1","tag-friends","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kpop","tag-music","tag-picture","tag-reddit","tag-top"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116086175727250245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}