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Dark_Koopatrol
03/05/2025
10:58 AM
#1
I was definitely not popular. I had a "friend" group (if you could even call it that), but they often excluded me since I was the only one who didn't play League of Legends.

Turns out I'm more successful than most of them now. I can still be extremely awkward, though.
Mechu
03/05/2025
10:59 AM
#2
I was invisible.
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03/05/2025
11:00 AM
#3
Believe it or not, I wasn't.
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03/05/2025
11:01 AM
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OldNastyBastard
03/05/2025
11:02 AM
#5
My class just announced the 20 year reunion for this summer. Looking through the list, I recognize like 3 people and I wouldn't say we were friends. I'm gonna go with no, I was not popular. I was well accepted by most groups though. I knew people in just about every clique so I could blend in where needed.
DaxNovalis
03/05/2025
11:03 AM
#6
Not really. I remember being referred to as "that quiet kid" a lot.
Solid_Sonic
03/05/2025
11:05 AM
#7
No, but seeing as how attention whore-y I am here on GameFAQs you can kind of ascertain that, I'm presume.
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Ivynn
03/05/2025
11:05 AM
#8
I was the respected loner.
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Baron_Ox
03/05/2025
11:07 AM
#9
kind of.

I had different friend groups, and people knew me, but there were only a few people I really liked and stuck with, for the most part.
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archizzy
03/05/2025
11:07 AM
#10
I was but to be fair my school was so small it wasnt this big divide of cliques like in bigger schools. My graduating class was 33 people and that was with 2 foreign exchange students. Counting me we had 11 guys in my class. Hard to have division when there is only 11 dudes in your class. Sure we had smaller separate groups of people that hung out but nobody was ever totally excluded and often at larger get together pretty much everyone was there.

i played sports but I was also a gamer who hung out with nerds and some of my friends were the burnouts who played music and skipped school. I floated among everyone. They were all my friends.
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BlueAnnihilator
03/05/2025
11:09 AM
#11
Darn, didn't make it before the respected loner post.
Homeless_Waifu
03/05/2025
11:10 AM
#12
I was a loner in and out of highschool

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VeggetaX
03/05/2025
11:11 AM
#13
No. I was the respecter loner
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SAlYAN
03/05/2025
11:11 AM
#14
I didn't think I was until my senior year, when I found out I had accidentally become popular like 2 years earlier and hadn't realized.
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lcampoy
03/05/2025
11:12 AM
#15
I remember being popular in elementary school but very unpopular in high school. I don't know what happened
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AvlButtslam
03/05/2025
11:13 AM
#16
By association, my main group of friends were the people who were in all the sports and activities and we were in the front and center of the class picture.

its completely meaningless now and I dont talk to a single one of them anymore.
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PMarth2002
03/05/2025
11:22 AM
#17
My school only had like 300 students. I wouldn't say I was popular, but I had a close group of friends and got along fine with most of my other classmates, aside from a few who liked to pick on me.

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KogaSteelfang
03/05/2025
11:25 AM
#18
No, not at all. I was very much an outcast. I was the quiet kid that never spoke to anyone, and for some reason that painted a massive target on me for bullies.

By the time graduation rolled around, things were better. Most of the bullies had backed off and actually decided to try and get to know me a little. It wasn't much, but it made the final year mostly tolerable.

Though, I still wasn't respected at all really. When we made a class flag for graduation, all of us had to sign it. By the time I got around to signing it, there wasn't a lot of space left, so I just a spot off to the side with space for my name. Then I heard people saying things like "Oh God, he put his name next to yours!" And "Why did he have to sign it there? He's not with us!" So I apologized and asked if there was a specific place I was supposed sign(I had asked this beforehand and was told to just sign it).

...so, they decided to "fix" it, and one of them pressed their hand in paint and put a hand print over my signature. Then they got all excited and were proclaiming things like "Now no one will know his name is near ours!" And jumping up and down. I asked the teacher if I could my name somewhere else and she told me no. I tried to explain what happened and she wouldn't listen.

So yeah. Didn't even have my name on the class flag we all signed. Well, I guess I did, it was just smeared under a handprint so no one could see. That one hurt. I always knew I didn't belong, but they didn't even want my name there. I had always at least felt like I was at least part of the class, even if no one liked me. But I learned then that they would rather just have me gone.
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tripleh213
03/05/2025
11:27 AM
#19
Baron_Ox posted...
kind of.

I had different friend groups, and people knew me, but there were only a few people I really liked and stuck with, for the most part.

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Jiek_Fafn
03/05/2025
11:29 AM
#20
Middle of the road
I went to some weird fucking utopia hs where everyone was legitimately nice to eachother. I hung out with some people there regularly, but the majority of my friends didn't go to the same school as me. One way or another, I was usually out spending weekends with friends
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Voidgolem
03/05/2025
11:34 AM
#22
I don't think I was but apparently everyone knew me, somehow
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NoxObscuras
03/05/2025
11:36 AM
#23
Yes and no. My school was fairly small, so we didn't have that typical clique divide. Everyone just knew everyone for the most part. I kind of liked that more than the big school setting where you didn't know most of the kids there.

archizzy posted...
I was but to be fair my school was so small it wasnt this big divide of cliques like in bigger schools. My graduating class was 33 people and that was with 2 foreign exchange students. Counting me we had 11 guys in my class. Hard to have division when there is only 11 dudes in your class. Sure we had smaller separate groups of people that hung out but nobody was ever totally excluded and often at larger get together pretty much everyone was there.

i played sports but I was also a gamer who hung out with nerds and some of my friends were the burnouts who played music and skipped school. I floated among everyone. They were all my friends.
Damn your school was even smaller than mine was. My graduating class had about 60 students. My cousin's high school, which was only a few miles away from mine, had a graduating class of over 500.
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Heineken14
03/05/2025
11:47 AM
#24
Yes.
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Villain_S_Fiend
03/05/2025
11:48 AM
#25
Mostly. To the school I was - I wasn't even in the yearbooks. Granted, it was mostly due to the credit system at my first high school worked differently than the second, so my status floated between two grades.

I had my niche group of friends, but to others I was either invisible or a "troublemaker" (I refused to stand for the anthem, as an example of the "trouble" I made). My ability to make people laugh in class scored me some safety points, though.
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El_Marsh
03/05/2025
11:49 AM
#26
No. I was known because I was amiable with pretty much everybody, but I wouldn't say that I stood out enough to be popular. I did get "most improved from freshman year," for whatever that was worth.
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archizzy
03/05/2025
11:49 AM
#27
NoxObscuras posted...
Yes and no. My school was fairly small, so we didn't have that typical clique divide. Everyone just knew everyone for the most part. I kind of liked that more than the big school setting where you didn't know most of the kids there.

Damn your school was even smaller than mine was. My graduating class had about 60 students. My cousin's high school, which was only a few miles away from mine, had a graduating class of over 500.

Yeah before 9th grade I went to a big school like 10 miles away in the next town. My class was like 300 there as it was one of the largest schools in the state. I was popular at that school too but I much preferred the small schools. Just a more chill environment where basically literally everybody was friendly and nice to each other.

i had friends in the Navy that went to big schools in like Phoenix and San Antonio and had graduating classes of 5,000. They didnt even have a graduation ceremony it was so big. They said they graduated with people they didnt even know or had never interacted with or had a single class with. Thats just weird to me. My entire high school was like 110 kids. We knew everyone quite well.

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NoxObscuras
03/05/2025
11:56 AM
#28
archizzy posted...
Yeah before 9th grade I went to a big school like 10 miles away in the next town. My class was like 300 there as it was one of the largest schools in the state. I was popular at that school too but I much preferred the small schools. Just a more chill environment where basically literally everybody was friendly and nice to each other.

i had friends in the Navy that went to big schools in like Phoenix and San Antonio and had graduating classes of 5,000. They didnt even have a graduation ceremony it was so big. They said they graduated with people they didnt even know or had never interacted with or had a single class with. Thats just weird to me. My entire high school was like 110 kids. We knew everyone quite well.
5,000 is insane for a high school. That's larger than the graduating classes for some Cal State Universities here. I think my brother's graduating class at his university was around 4,000.

I can't imagine going to a high school that big.
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CableZL
03/05/2025
12:09 PM
#30
I wouldn't call it popular, but people knew of me because I kept getting a lot of accolades in band and changing the band from no one caring about it to people being extremely interested in it during football games.
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Strider102
03/05/2025
12:11 PM
#31
I never really considered myself popular personally, however I was within the top 10 most popular in high school.

No idea how the fuck it happened either. In middle school is was pretty low on the totem pole, then highschool, around 10th grade I somehow ascended.
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BucketCat
03/05/2025
12:13 PM
#32
nah. I had a few friend groups and generally got along with most people, but I was quiet and didn't really get involved with school-related stuff.

looking back, I don't even think the popular kids were even popular. they were just over-involved with stuff to the point that they were everywhere and were pretty full of themselves, which gave an "exclusive" sense to the group.
in hindsight they weren't popular, they were just the most obtuse friend group at the school.
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ReturnOfDevsman
03/05/2025
12:14 PM
#33
That wasn't really a thing at my high school. I don't think we even had cliques.
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Tom_Joad
03/05/2025
12:48 PM
#35
I missed my 10-year high school reunion because I was stationed in South Korea after just months after 9/11.

I missed my 20-year high school reunion because I was stationed in South Korea and North Korea decided they wanted to shell a South Korean fishing village on a South Korean island.

I missed my 30-year high school reunion because of COVID-19 and moving to Portugal.

I might be able to go to my 40-year high school reunion in 2031.

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And I highly doubt anyone remembers me. Probably not even my friends, considering we lost track of each other in the late 90s.
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Bass
03/05/2025
12:58 PM
#37
Mechu posted...
I was invisible.
This. I had some friends, but was mostly ignored since I was quiet.
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Jupiter
03/05/2025
01:09 PM
#39
I got more and more popular which each year especially after I joined the football team. Like I'd say I made it to B list my senior year. I wasn't one of the elites, but I was very cool with most of them and had most of their numbers and would get invited to parties.
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Aztex
03/05/2025
01:09 PM
#40
Yes
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Darkstar00
03/05/2025
01:21 PM
#41
I wasn't popular til about Junior Year of High School when I was really coming out of my shell. I became not quite a popular kid, but the popular kids liked me and would talk and joke around with me and I'd partake, then just walk away like it was nothing
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Xatrion
03/05/2025
01:22 PM
#42
I was the most popular person in my school.

I was also the only person in my school.
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Pow_Pow_Punishment
03/05/2025
01:40 PM
#43
Only in junior and senior year. Before then, I was well-liked enough, but once I started weightlifting the football jocks took a liking to me because I became stronger than most of them.
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Nota214
03/05/2025
01:40 PM
#44
I don't know if I would say I was popular but high school was a time when people knew my name. Not because I tried to stand out, but because I naturally connected with people. I was the one who helped with projects, cracked the jokes that everyone laughed at, and knew just when to be serious. I didnt have to put on a show to get attention. It was more about building authentic relationships with a variety of people. Sure, I went to plenty of parties and was well known by my peers, but I didn't win any popularity awards nor do I think I was even in the running for them.
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Ratchetrockon
03/05/2025
01:41 PM
#45
first half of junior year yeah. i was the homecoming prince and a male cheerleader (only did it for like 6 months which includes the summer practice the previous grade year iirc) so that got some attention

became withdrawn after my ex gf (who was also on the cheer team) moved the 2nd semester. my friend's group got narrower (never got close to my ex gf's friends tbh) so i interacted w/ fewer people and my brief period of popularity faded haha. i was always quite shy so i never felt comfortable around the people that were just naturally open and confident and i guess popular as a result

I was considered pretty weird my 9th grade year and half of 10th grade year. Mainly because I was quite and my hair covered a lot of my face. After I got a haircut people started treating me way better. This also includes teachers.
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vycebrand2
03/05/2025
01:53 PM
#46
Tom_Joad posted...
I missed my 10-year high school reunion because I was stationed in South Korea after just months after 9/11.

I missed my 20-year high school reunion because I was stationed in South Korea and North Korea decided they wanted to shell a South Korean fishing village on a South Korean island.

I missed my 30-year high school reunion because of COVID-19 and moving to Portugal.

I might be able to go to my 40-year high school reunion in 2031.

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And I highly doubt anyone remembers me. Probably not even my friends, considering we lost track of each other in the late 90s.
Sounds about right. I'm 2 years younger.

I was known but I chose to hang out with the geeks, even though I wasnt one. I had a friend through out school that was. For that friendship I was bullied.

Like you other than Running into friends from school when I visited home that stopped when the 2000's started. I'm sure if I wasn't home bound I would have met someone by now
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Garlands_Soul
03/05/2025
03:50 PM
#47
Somewhat. I threw a bunch of parties with the smarter kids so I was well-liked.
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Bishop_Hastur
03/05/2025
04:17 PM
#48
Depends on the school. I wound up going to 3 high schools due to moving.
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Hayame_Zero
03/05/2025
04:20 PM
#49
Not really. I didn't go to school for nearly 5 years before high school, so only a handful of people really knew me.

I had a brief 15 minutes for being able to pop my eyes out of my sockets though.
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buddah86
03/05/2025
04:23 PM
#50
Not popular, but in with the "cool" kids. They mostly used me because I would shout the weed. I didn't mind though, because at least I wasn't smoking alone.....
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