A tweet asks what life feels like with zero opposite-sex friends

A viral post wonders how people with literally zero friends of the opposite sex get through life.

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Anonymous · 1일

what does a life with 0 friends.jpg친구 0명은 대체 어떤 삶일까.jpg

Some people have zero friends of the opposite sex—I wonder what life even feels like for them.가끔 이성 친구가 0명인 사람 있잖아, 그런 사람들은 인생을 어떤 느낌으로 살아가는 걸까

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Korean community post, image 2: The attached photo: a capybara pointing a gun straight at camera.
English translation
The attached photo: a capybara pointing a gun straight at camera.

(사진: 권총을 들고 있는 카피바라)

💡 Why slap a gun-toting capybara on a lonely-life question?
It's a dark-humor Twitter format: pair an absurdly violent stock image with a mundane, self-pitying caption to mock how 'bleak' being friendless supposedly is.vs. Reddit: like r/im14andthisisdeep pairing edgy photos with faux-profound captions for laughs.Klore note
💡 Wait, people actually count opposite-sex friends?
'이성친구 0명' (zero opposite-sex friends) is a common self-deprecating Korean benchmark for being painfully single or socially awkward, separate from dating itself.vs. the US: similar to joking about your 'body count' or friend-group tally as an informal social scorecard.Klore note

What Koreans said

11 top comments on the original thread, translated
  1. 31 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Bro doesn't even have regular friends, let alone opposite-sex ones...

    그냥 친구도 없는데 이성친구?...

  2. 22 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Your world isn't the whole world, buddy.

    네가 아는 세계가 전부가 아니야.

  3. 17 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Even same-sex friends aren't easy to come by...

    동성친구도 쉽지 않아요...

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  1. 11 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Baiting people this early lol. Went all-boys school, engineering, army, then factory automation job — only meet middle-aged guys, always traveling with zero personal time.

    아침부터 어그로끌리네 ㅋㅋㅋ 남중남고공대군대-직장 공장자동화테크 타니 사회생활에서도 만나는 사람들은 아저씨들 뿐이고 맨날 출장이라 개인시간도 없다고...

  2. 5 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Wait, don't people usually have at least 5 same-sex friends max?

    엣 동성친구라면 최대 다섯은 있지 않아?

  3. 3 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Zero opposite-sex friends is pretty common tbh... I've only got one, and she's already married.

    이성 친구 0명은 많지 않나.. 나도 일단 톡으로 가끔 연락하는 이미 유부녀인 이성 친구 1명 밖에 없는데..

  4. 3 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Wait, there are actually a lot of people with tons of opposite-sex friends??

    뭣 이성친구가 많은 사람이 이 세상에 많다고??

  5. 3 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Fun fact about opposite-sex friends: they vanish once you get married.

    이성친구 특: 결혼하면 사라짐

  6. 2 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    Wait but does anyone really go through life with zero opposite-sex friends? You go to school, you work, come on.

    아니 근데 진짜 살면서 이성친구가 한명도 없는 사람이 있어? 학교도 가고 사회생활도 할거 아냐.

  7. 2 upvotes on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    ...making friends in general is just hard okay ㅠㅠ

    ...친구 만드는 거 어렵다고ㅠㅠ

  8. 1 upvote on the original thread
    Anon· on the original thread

    The downvotes you're getting are the answer to your question.

    그 대답은 네가 받은 비추가 해줄 것이다.

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