lol well you, on the other hand, sound like the real deal! direct personal experience unlike all those posers, right? except why do you keep bringing up your friend then?

This is a really stupid argument, your data point of "one friend" or even two or more friends with unspecified timeline is useless. The only thing that has any meaning is a formal study with a large number of participants over many years of observations.

Dude, it’s simple. You have already made a choice and you choose the first pop culture article that matches that and then start talking about studies this and studies that. I know it, you know it, and everyone else knows it.

And I get that it’s fun but when you’re called out on it you don’t have to get upset. Ten years from now, either you will realize how comical you were being or you will still be the same. It’s better for you if it’s the former. That’s all I’m going to tell you, for your own good.