A few weeks ago, TikToker @samayak316 friendzoned a guy because she wasn’t looking for a relationship. The other day, he messaged her, saying that he wanted to go to the flea market with her.
She asked him if he wanted to meet up there or go together. He said they could meet at 5 p.m. When she arrived, he wasn’t there, and he did not respond to her messages, asking where he was.
So, she proceeded with her shopping because it was what she had planned to do anyway, with or without him. He ended up texting her back about 20 minutes before she was going to leave the flea market.
He apologized for not responding, claiming that his “alarm didn’t go off” and he was about to leave anyway. She checked her phone again before calling an Uber.
He had texted her, saying that he was at the flea market but was looking for a place to park.
After 10 minutes had passed, she asked him if he had found a parking spot yet. He told her that he needed to park a few blocks away because there were no open spaces.
Thirty minutes went by, and she still hadn’t heard from him. When she checked his social media account, she realized that he had blocked her!
“So, I’m wondering if like this standing me up was revenge for my friend-zoning him. Did that make him feel like a man?” concluded @samayak316.
She added in the caption of her video that this kind of behavior was exactly why she was taking a break from dating in the first place.
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Several TikTok users chimed in to say they’d been through very similar situations. Apparently, getting stood up as revenge for rejection is a lot more common than you’d think.
“Went out with my sister and ran into this man I friend-zoned. He got so mad at me [for] talking to other men throughout the night. Mind you, he didn’t have to hang out around us. We leave, now he’s texting me, telling me I did him wrong because I was talking to other men…I have told this man multiple times I have no interest in him,” commented one user.
“Smh yup, my ‘friend’ started making condescending comments as soon as I told him I don’t want a relationship with him,” stated another.
“I’ve had this happen to me before, the blocking before the linkup. I think it’s revenge like, ‘You wasted my time, so I’ll waste yours,'” declared a third.
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