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People On This Group Are Sharing Screenshots Of Really Cringy Texts, And Here Are 31 Of The Best Ones
There’s something about asterisks in a text message that causes a very high probability of annoying the person who receives it—partly because putting this seemingly innocent typographical symbol * is about being extra. Like, telling what’s in the back of your mind without uttering it, revealing your inner emotions that nobody really wants to know, and worst, *nodding the head* to creep the heck out of the recipient. Yep, some asterisks are seriously chilling.
The Reddit community r/CreepyAsterisks2 has been documenting the most absurd, cringey, and plain scary asterisks screenshotted in text messages.
From *sigh*-inducing pickup lines to plain bizarre cases of expressing one’s motion in text, like *leaning closer,* this subreddit is the uncharted terrain of the kind of messaging style that doesn’t work that well for communicating. So let’s see some of the most cringe-inducing examples that will make you curl up like Arby’s curly fries.
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#1
He's Been Begging For Weeks To Do A "Sexy Roleplay" With Me. I Finally Said Yes. I Think He Regrets Everything Now
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#2
S T O P
#3
At Least He's Achieved Multiple Awards With His 147 Iq
These days, everything we do is via texts. We fall in love, we break up, we check on a friend, we send birthday wishes, we talk to mom and dad. Picking up the phone feels so last season, but this study says that too much texting can be harmful to our relationships.
The research conducted by Brigham Young University suggested that committed couples who use text messages to figure out their arguments can become disconnected. This is because text arguing lowers relationship quality, which essentially needs genuine face-to-face communication.
At the same time, texting is now a quintessential part of any dating game. We know that millennials are not that much into going on dates, but texting back and forth is a whole different thing. And thanks to the worldwide pandemic, it’s not going anywhere soon.
#5
*lays Across Your Lap*
#6
Now Listen Here Missy
So is there a way to actually have a meaningful text conversation with someone you’re into? It turns out, this is super difficult. Because according to experts, virtual dating is not the same as real dating, and texting shouldn’t be confused with being in a relationship.
Modern dating coach Sami Wunder warns us to beware of the texting trap. Sami, who teaches women rational dating, says that going all into the first man who shows interest is the worst way to go. "You don't want to text with men too much because the more you text, the more virtual it gets."
#7
What A Birch
#9
Found This Screenshot From Last April In My Phone
According to Sami, “The more available you become in their heads, the less likely they are to ask you out for an actual meeting. Because honestly, there are men out there who just want a beautiful penpal."
Penpalling may sound like a good idea for some, but if you’re looking for true and meaningful relationships, you may opt for a real date. But as long as most of us are all in quarantine, a video call may as well do the job.
#10
Oh God, Why
#11
You Know, A Usual Hooking Up Tactic
#12
Chubby Chubby Chubby
#13
Unlike You I Know How Facebook Works
Levity Camilleri 3 years ago
Unlike you I know how Facebook works... Well unlike you I know how being not a creepy weirdo works but we can't all have everything can we?
#14
Inner Monologue As Tinder Opener
#15
I'll Just Decide Your Personality For You
#16
I Guess The Expected Reaction Was Supposed To Be: "Omg No Sry R U Ok Cutie? ;^;"
#17
This Was A Classic
#18
*Sweats On You*
#19
Mmh Yuss :3
#20
Y... You Like Anime?
#21
*looks At Scribble Writting On Hand*
Banjo Peppers 3 years ago
This is what you do when you’re in a roleplay forum for anime or furries, and for some reason the people on this list don’t seem to realize that ypuDONT TALK LIKE THIS OUTSIDE THOSE FORUMS.
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Dan Buczynski 3 years ago
You have to write your age on your hand? At twenty-four? Or are you a robot? Or part of an experiment where they give you a number instead of a name? I'm so intrigued.
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
That’s the EXACT reaction they were looking for. Maybe you’d be interested in them.
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Melanie Rose 2 years ago
Like seriously, guys need to stop doing this dumb s**t! Nobody likes it!!!
#22
*shoots Self*
#23
Le Gentleman
Ooooomangos 3 years ago
He’s the co-founder of whocares CO. That’s the only good thing about this.
#24
M’lady
Marcellus the Third 3 years ago
On the one hand, this is about the only entry that doesn't go for full-on sexual aggression so should be commended; on the other hand, the other entries show that it's just on "OK?"-response away from that.
#25
I’m Just Gonna Randomly Text This Person!
#26
Not Trying To Get You Drunk!
#27
Just Some Accidental Chest Touching, No Need To Be Alarmed
#29
But He Nuzzled Her!
#30
Fancy Face...
Vanta Black 3 years ago
I believe this is exactly how Prince Albert wooed Queen Victoria. "Hey there fancy face, you'd look good on a coin."
#31
"Nice To Meet You"
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How do you deal with the cringy texts?
Petra Schaap 3 years ago
maybe its just that I'm an old fart, but why the F would you talk to a stranger/someone not your lover, like that? its even more pathetic than sending dickpicks! what kind of sad creep do you have to be to think this will work??
Ms.GB 3 years ago
Rest assured it has nothing to do with your age, these people are most definitely socially inept.
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Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
I think I got to about the 4th one and stopped. There is definitely something wrong with those who wrote this garbage.
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Noez 🇸🇪 3 years ago (edited)
Is the *blahblah* stuff an attempt to narrate to try to be cute, or is it the way people actually text these days? Cause if someone texted me like that I'd cut all contact in 0,3 seconds. Pretending to be borderline psychotic isn't cute!
H Edwards 3 years ago
No, this is far from normal (thankfully). I believe there are certain corners of the internet where people participate in this kind of weird role-playing, and these dudes try to take it out into the real world... to which all their targets can only say WTF?
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Reirei 3 years ago
Wow. I'm a roleplayer, used to participate in online text based wolf roleplays and embarrassing stuff like that. But what kind of idiot would use roleplay in real life to get a date? It doesn't make any sense. Maybe it's because I'm a woman, but I would never roleplay even in a normal conversation with friends or strangers, let alone whilst trying to ask someone out. They're separate worlds.
Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago (edited)
From reading these posts I have concluded that there are too many people out there who DO NOT understand boundaries...
TheWitchNaru 3 years ago
Guy messages me on a dating app like: I'm 50 years old with a huge d**k. I respond: No. Him: You seem uncertain. Me: No means no, asshole. Him: You are a bit feisty. Of course I know no means no, but it was just the way you said it. It sounded more like yes, you know? I mean there was something in your inflection... a certain "je ne sais quoi" that indicated maybe you were unsure of the feelings inside you. Like, your keyboard said no but your heart said yes? Love is complicated. Also, I know you didn't mean to call me an asshole. It's ok. Apology accepted. Let me know what time you want to come make it up to me. .... NO.
Marnie 3 years ago
Wow. Wow. That's just...I don't even have words for how crazy this one is.
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Mystery Egg 3 years ago
why do so many young men speak like this when contacting women? Who teaches them that anyone likes it? I'd wager there isn't a single woman on the planet that likes it. It's just horrible.
Marnie 3 years ago
I don't know that it's "so many". Someone above said that it is used in people doing legitimate roleplaying games, but normal people don't use it outside of that. She says this is not common (thankfully).
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Zoe Murphy 3 years ago
If people really want to do this role play crap what’s the point of texting?
Luca Valerio 3 years ago
We need to ask ourselves as a society what we did wrong to let this happen.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
What is this s**t? Is this a thing? Jesus.. just stop it. It's gross and stupid.
Zophra 3 years ago
I doubt this pick-up ever works so why would a person keep continuing this stupidity?
Marnie 3 years ago
They are narcissists who can't admit they could be wrong about something. And when it fails over and over that becomes proof in their heads that women are all jerks.
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gargling_gargoyle 3 years ago
What the actual hell. If anyone ever tried this with me, I would block immediately
Derek Neibarger 3 years ago
Just when you thought men couldn't be anymore lame and creepy, this asterik/role play thing comes along.
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
I just don’t get how people can live with themselves like this. I would do everything I could to change into a totally different person.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
So this is what long distance rape looks like. The amount of perverts on the net is extremely underestimated.
Beans 3 years ago
I've never really RP chatted but you get this a lot in some fandoms... people used to do this on Gaia Online and anime foums way back in the day when I was in my teens... there were dedicated areas for RP chat... when people did it to me outside of rp chat the best way to get back at them is messing up their RP like their first entry that said why are you in an IKEA, haha.
giovanna 3 years ago
These people don't even deserve the first answer. Just block them straight away.
Katinka Min 3 years ago
I had to stop reading these, they are so effing creepy. I almost prefer old school sexual harrassment to this truly aweful crap.
Henny Hana 3 years ago
Really these people made me mad,like they gave anime lovers a bad rep. I love animes,my gf too,and my friends too. But never have i encountered one of us being like these people. Geez
Diana Cartwright 3 years ago
Are guys really doing this?? I feel so sorry for young girls. For pretty women all over. Being ugly has its advantages.
Franc Esca 3 years ago
Why do people do this? Yes I'm technically a millennial but I'm glad this phase passed right by me
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
Here you go, everyone. Some eyebleach for making it down here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXXnXsdoxz0&ab_channel=LittleMapleMan
pansexualandproud 3 years ago
i am laughing at this because i feel like only on Roblox can you roleplay without seeming too weird lol
Ann Abdelzaher 3 years ago
Do guys/girls actually think that s**t works? Thank heavens I met my hubby online back when the internet was just starting... our thing was Hi A/S/L and my HUbby's first message to me was I like your profile!
Sasy 3 years ago
The one were the guy didn't get an answer so rpd cutting himself was so messed up, that should not have been posted at all.
Peter Kelly 3 years ago
What on earth have I just read? I can't begin to comprehend what set of circumstances would lead anyone (let alone dozens) to write such gibberish, nor what it represents. Weird!
Kevin Beard 3 years ago
Wow... Just wow. Ladies you get these all the time? I have a whole new group of awful types of guys I have to worry about my daughter meeting now.
Yehudit Hannah Cohn 3 years ago
"Cringeworthy". Cringe-effin'-worthy. There is no such word as "cringey". Honestly.
Shika Louis 3 years ago
I mean this is the majority of ppl on the internet these days... For all its worth, it gives someone a good laugh at their horrible pick up lines. Welcome to the future, kids!! Prepare to be traumatised!
Sent From The Slytherin House 3 years ago
Do y'all notice a pattern here? All you young gentlemen, if you ever want a girls to like you (unless you are positive she likes this stuff), here is a list of 31 things to NOT do.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
Seriously - WHAT THE F**K? I can't imagine a single person I know doing this creepy s**t. I think I need a shower.
Charlotte A. 3 years ago
*loves using asterisks to denote actions* (That said, what was put in asterisks in the examples above was indeed cringe-worthy)
Jennifer Brown 3 years ago
Most of these are from very lonely, celibate, geeky, men who still live in their parent's basement. They play D & D and collect plastic figurines which they never take out of the box.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago
Not much different than when I worked at a bar, except it was face to face. In the early 70s. "Hey, beautiful, want to spend some time with me?" "no, thank you" "But I am dying for your touch so much it hurts!" "So go sit in a corner and play with yourself." "you don't have to be so..so.. crude!" "Yes, I do."
Petra Schaap 3 years ago
maybe its just that I'm an old fart, but why the F would you talk to a stranger/someone not your lover, like that? its even more pathetic than sending dickpicks! what kind of sad creep do you have to be to think this will work??
Ms.GB 3 years ago
Rest assured it has nothing to do with your age, these people are most definitely socially inept.
Load More Replies... Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
I think I got to about the 4th one and stopped. There is definitely something wrong with those who wrote this garbage.
Load More Replies... Noez 🇸🇪 3 years ago (edited)
Is the *blahblah* stuff an attempt to narrate to try to be cute, or is it the way people actually text these days? Cause if someone texted me like that I'd cut all contact in 0,3 seconds. Pretending to be borderline psychotic isn't cute!
H Edwards 3 years ago
No, this is far from normal (thankfully). I believe there are certain corners of the internet where people participate in this kind of weird role-playing, and these dudes try to take it out into the real world... to which all their targets can only say WTF?
Load More Replies... Reirei 3 years ago
Wow. I'm a roleplayer, used to participate in online text based wolf roleplays and embarrassing stuff like that. But what kind of idiot would use roleplay in real life to get a date? It doesn't make any sense. Maybe it's because I'm a woman, but I would never roleplay even in a normal conversation with friends or strangers, let alone whilst trying to ask someone out. They're separate worlds.
Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago (edited)
From reading these posts I have concluded that there are too many people out there who DO NOT understand boundaries...
TheWitchNaru 3 years ago
Guy messages me on a dating app like: I'm 50 years old with a huge d**k. I respond: No. Him: You seem uncertain. Me: No means no, asshole. Him: You are a bit feisty. Of course I know no means no, but it was just the way you said it. It sounded more like yes, you know? I mean there was something in your inflection... a certain "je ne sais quoi" that indicated maybe you were unsure of the feelings inside you. Like, your keyboard said no but your heart said yes? Love is complicated. Also, I know you didn't mean to call me an asshole. It's ok. Apology accepted. Let me know what time you want to come make it up to me. .... NO.
Marnie 3 years ago
Wow. Wow. That's just...I don't even have words for how crazy this one is.
Load More Replies... Mystery Egg 3 years ago
why do so many young men speak like this when contacting women? Who teaches them that anyone likes it? I'd wager there isn't a single woman on the planet that likes it. It's just horrible.
Marnie 3 years ago
I don't know that it's "so many". Someone above said that it is used in people doing legitimate roleplaying games, but normal people don't use it outside of that. She says this is not common (thankfully).
Load More Replies... Zoe Murphy 3 years ago
If people really want to do this role play crap what’s the point of texting?
Luca Valerio 3 years ago
We need to ask ourselves as a society what we did wrong to let this happen.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
What is this s**t? Is this a thing? Jesus.. just stop it. It's gross and stupid.
Zophra 3 years ago
I doubt this pick-up ever works so why would a person keep continuing this stupidity?
Marnie 3 years ago
They are narcissists who can't admit they could be wrong about something. And when it fails over and over that becomes proof in their heads that women are all jerks.
Load More Replies... gargling_gargoyle 3 years ago
What the actual hell. If anyone ever tried this with me, I would block immediately
Derek Neibarger 3 years ago
Just when you thought men couldn't be anymore lame and creepy, this asterik/role play thing comes along.
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
I just don’t get how people can live with themselves like this. I would do everything I could to change into a totally different person.
WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
So this is what long distance rape looks like. The amount of perverts on the net is extremely underestimated.
Beans 3 years ago
I've never really RP chatted but you get this a lot in some fandoms... people used to do this on Gaia Online and anime foums way back in the day when I was in my teens... there were dedicated areas for RP chat... when people did it to me outside of rp chat the best way to get back at them is messing up their RP like their first entry that said why are you in an IKEA, haha.
giovanna 3 years ago
These people don't even deserve the first answer. Just block them straight away.
Katinka Min 3 years ago
I had to stop reading these, they are so effing creepy. I almost prefer old school sexual harrassment to this truly aweful crap.
Henny Hana 3 years ago
Really these people made me mad,like they gave anime lovers a bad rep. I love animes,my gf too,and my friends too. But never have i encountered one of us being like these people. Geez
Diana Cartwright 3 years ago
Are guys really doing this?? I feel so sorry for young girls. For pretty women all over. Being ugly has its advantages.
Franc Esca 3 years ago
Why do people do this? Yes I'm technically a millennial but I'm glad this phase passed right by me
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
Here you go, everyone. Some eyebleach for making it down here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXXnXsdoxz0&ab_channel=LittleMapleMan
pansexualandproud 3 years ago
i am laughing at this because i feel like only on Roblox can you roleplay without seeming too weird lol
Ann Abdelzaher 3 years ago
Do guys/girls actually think that s**t works? Thank heavens I met my hubby online back when the internet was just starting... our thing was Hi A/S/L and my HUbby's first message to me was I like your profile!
Sasy 3 years ago
The one were the guy didn't get an answer so rpd cutting himself was so messed up, that should not have been posted at all.
Peter Kelly 3 years ago
What on earth have I just read? I can't begin to comprehend what set of circumstances would lead anyone (let alone dozens) to write such gibberish, nor what it represents. Weird!
Kevin Beard 3 years ago
Wow... Just wow. Ladies you get these all the time? I have a whole new group of awful types of guys I have to worry about my daughter meeting now.
Yehudit Hannah Cohn 3 years ago
"Cringeworthy". Cringe-effin'-worthy. There is no such word as "cringey". Honestly.
Shika Louis 3 years ago
I mean this is the majority of ppl on the internet these days... For all its worth, it gives someone a good laugh at their horrible pick up lines. Welcome to the future, kids!! Prepare to be traumatised!
Sent From The Slytherin House 3 years ago
Do y'all notice a pattern here? All you young gentlemen, if you ever want a girls to like you (unless you are positive she likes this stuff), here is a list of 31 things to NOT do.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
Seriously - WHAT THE F**K? I can't imagine a single person I know doing this creepy s**t. I think I need a shower.
Charlotte A. 3 years ago
*loves using asterisks to denote actions* (That said, what was put in asterisks in the examples above was indeed cringe-worthy)
Jennifer Brown 3 years ago
Most of these are from very lonely, celibate, geeky, men who still live in their parent's basement. They play D & D and collect plastic figurines which they never take out of the box.
Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago
Not much different than when I worked at a bar, except it was face to face. In the early 70s. "Hey, beautiful, want to spend some time with me?" "no, thank you" "But I am dying for your touch so much it hurts!" "So go sit in a corner and play with yourself." "you don't have to be so..so.. crude!" "Yes, I do."
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