>>513043834
This is true, and it's also the point in time when i started feeling too alienated to keep in the lane.
The 3 years of high school or "Gymnasium" as it's called here (typically age 17-20) is where I truly fell off.
There was an elitist culture of knowledge, and weird interests or uninformed behavior was made fun of.
This means that a subset of men end up living on Reddit, YouTube and 4chan after their adulthood has just begun, because either you get high-tier grades and can enter university, or you get mid/low grades and are shut out of opportunities for the rest of your life, because you hadn't matured enough by the time you had to attend high school.
I suppose it's the same everywhere else to some extent, so I don't even know why I'm explaining it like this. But I had a social network and friends until high school ended and then I started receding into my privacy and internet-use when everyone talked about their amazing grades and their long-term career plans knowing that I couldn't be any of those things. Then I started talking about video games on Reddit and bullied people for having bad opinions, to get the same experience as the elites who made fun of me because I couldn't recite my homework spotlessly.