Anon plays spin the bottle

Kid just suck.

Eh, they are a less inhibited form of adults, and a product of their upbringing.
They sense and exploit weakness for personal gain. Plenty of adults do that too. That's where they learn it from.
- Yup, and I try very hard to bully my kids whenever they're bullying others so they get a taste of their own medicine, and reward them when they're excellent to others for the same reason.
  My kid was a selfish brat for a bit, so I completely removed all of my attention for a bit, and I told them exactly why I was doing it. They stewed for a bit, then eventually apologized and I showered them with tons of attention.
  Hopefully my kids don't end up being little terrorists, but if they do, it wasn't for lack of trying to instill some sense of humanity in them.
- Terrible people whom I do not wish to share a planet with.
Kids are Reddit. If they sense weakness; the others will pile on.
One shining star will talk about the injustice of it all in the aftermath, and everyone will privately forgive themselves and conveniently forget until the next time it happens.
The solution is to be arrogant. Insist your position in their society and force your presence. If you show you have self worth, others will be forced to grudgingly acknowledge it
- Kids are Reddit. If they sense weakness; the others will pile on.
  The same happens here. Just try to say anything remotely positive about Twitter/X, Elon Musk, or conservatives in general. I don't even like any of those, but sometimes I call out hypocrisy and get absolutely dumped on (even got a couple death threats). The problem isn't with Reddit, it's with social media in general, it really brings the worst kinds of people together.
  People suck. Try to be just a little better than the person next to you and we'll all hopefully get through this.

At camp some guys and girls were playing in a tent, I was not included.

One got out and told me I could join. I tried to and they all laughed at me. Still hurts a bit.

Describes a lot of my childhood to be honest I was a social pariah for some reason. Completly changed when I went to college and made new friends, and now a lot of my happiest memories surround my college years. I even met my wife there!

Anon should've showered more often

Middle school kids he mighta done nothing wrong at all. Those kids at that age are terrors and will oust people from a friend group for the dumbest reasons imaginable.
Sucks because that person may have done everything right and years later still can't trust people or open up to them.
- If there is even just a chance that others wouldn't understand, let alone disapprove you associating with kid X, you can accomplish 2 things by ousting them: 1. You get rid of the potential disapproval (wich is mostly just insecurity) 2. You help an ingroup getting rid of unambiguousness, by drawing/strengthening the border to the outgroup, while with the same move placing yourself on the inside.
  I work with kids, and so far I think this is the objective rationality behind most or at least many acts of cruel exclusion.
  The only long term, non authoritarian solution is the kids developing a moral compass, that makes violent exclusion more important to them than short term insecurity-management and of course beeing less insecure. (Plus the "weird ones" often have fluffin interesting perspectives)
  As we can see in comments like "shower more" even many adults didn't recover from the competitive-acceptance-bs other kids/their parents/ this fucked up society gave them.

Man. I used to sing a song to any kid who got a pimple when I was a teenager. “Big pimplin from WV and if you squeeze him too hard he pop all over the place!” With a little spin on the V to make it rhyme with place.
Had every kid in the neighborhood singing it to each other when they’d get pimples.
I hope the pimples left you alone man. If not I hope you came to terms with it.
- Hmm, I'm having trouble with the rhythm here, and how can you possibly make V rhyme with place? You some kind of rap god?
- Props for not rhyming face with place lol
was it true though

Plot twist: Anon was at a college party where everyone else was 20+, so they didn't want to diddle him

Getting bullied for years will also do this.

- First of all, that's absolute bullshit(but I won't discuss about that with you, since you already made clear that you clearly lack the ability to think about more complex things), but also even without 4chan teenagers can turn into absolute fucking monsters that will bully everyone who's slightly different and ruin their lives.

I got a more direct case of rejection. 12yo me, at new school, 2nd week of classes, one of the girls that I thought was very pretty was asking others who they fancied. Once she came up to me, I meekly replied "You". I got a very loud and angry "I HATE YOU!" as an answer. Up to this day, more than 20 years later, I have no fucking clue to any possible why, in her mind, I deserved that reply.

You got that reply because you surprised her and her immature 12 y/o brain spat that out as the best response on short notice. It's entirely likely that response had nothing to do with you in particular.
B-B-b-b-BAKA!
But you probably caught her off guard. I wouldn't expect 12 year olds to really know how to express their feelings like that.
- I don't think it was a tsundere, given that during the rest of the year she avoided me and I noticed at least two times were our eyes met, she frowned then looked away. We had zero interactions during the rest of the year.
Lol, that reaction probably haunts her, too. "Why was I so mean to that boy for no fucking reason 20 years ago?!"
- Would be funny if I could find her on instagram or wherever and ask. Too bad I only remember her first name
It may have been that she was embarrassed because she liked you too.
Ouch. But also,
I once got angry and through a fit at a friend for buying me a surprise gift. I couldn't even tell you why, but I was very upset.
Try not to put too much stock in the bubbling brew that is childhood emotions.

I was at a gathering with some guy friends meeting some girls from a different school. The slightly older brother (let's call him Jay) of one of my friend's had driven us there. We were playing spin the bottle outside the apartment building. I was rejected after the bottle spun by a girl saying she didn't want to kiss me specifically. I got hurt/mad then my impulsive ADHD brain decided to get even. I saw a spigot on the floor, aimed it strait at the girl that rejected me and turned it on. More than the intended target got wet. Jay got really mad and I just ran. Once he caught up to me I thought he was going to beat me up. Instead he just laughed and told me I was going to have to leave and walk home.

LoL.. That has the feel of getting sent to the principal's office for something that they kinda actually agree with (or at least find amusing) but have to deal with by policy.
Yeah, the classic ADHD rejection sensitivity.
- yeah lmao this doesnt sound like adhd

Anon didn’t have the abilities to digest the situation to conclude what needs to be done to prevent this in the future.

Anon hopefully is older and wiser now.

I was anon once…

Break the bottle and start stabbing
- Play spin the bottle with their torsos
Shut yourself in and never meet people ever.
That sounds... ominous

When I read those, I consider myself lucky. I'm not handsome, normal sized, not athletic at all, not very sociable, closer to poor than rich, yet I never experienced any of those. Always had a few close friends and never have been single for more than 4 consecutive months since my 15th birthday. And I'm almost 40.

Is it a matter of luck? Of countries culture? Of type of schools/univ? Of social groups or generation ? I truly wonder.

Well some are lucky or simply befriend the bully. Whatever works...
You're probably a nice person and a decent hang. Really that's what most people are looking for imho
In this case like this I feel like anon just has shitty friends and needed to find a group he fits in better with. If you're awkward and weird, you've just got to find the awkward and weird kids to be friends with (anime club, theater, ect) there's even awkward and weird girls there!
Looks don't even matter that much in dating (unless you've got porn brainrot). So long as you're not deformed or super obese, someone will be attracted to you, and chances are you'll find them attractive too. Just don't be a creep and have interest outside of video games and modern dating is pretty easy.
since my 15th birthday
Isn't ot a bit too early?

4chan is made to make people feel bad about themselves.

That's social media in general. Actually marketing is specifically designed to prey on people's insecurities.

Similar story where a University club got together at someone's apartment to stay the night, lots of previously unacquainted people in the group, after a night on the town.

Chatting, drinking, in a circle. One girl started giving the guys shoulders rubs, but went to bed when she came up to me in the circle.

Kept telling myself I dodged a bullet anyway.

You did she’s pregnant with 5 kids now and an opiate addiction
- It never pays to assume, especially not horseshit like that.
  We can have a separate discussion about why talking about prostitutes with anything less than respect is not okay.

Green text is always fake, right you guys?

If it's happy and wholesome its sadly probably fake, if its dark and depressing, there's a good chance that is legit.
- The greentext blackpill

I mean, it sucks that you pinned your hopes on your crush having to follow a social pressure to kiss/fondle/fuck/whatever the "forfeit" for spin the bottle was in the first place.

It sucks that you had to go through that, but at what point does that declination of your advances suck less?

I mean, society has unfortunately favoured shitty games like "pull the bull" and "poke the bear" over any sort of genuine attraction which has usually disadvantaged women anyway - that's not to turn it into a gender thing, but maybe the idea of sparking a relationship from a forced interaction sucks from the outset.

Anon didn't make up the rules, and I wouldn't wager that he was the one who decided to start that game. Everyone chose to play knowing they wouldn't be comfortable getting anon. It doesn't seem to me like anon made any advance at all. Rejecting someone's advances for whatever reason is not morally incorrect, nor is denying them physical displays of affection. But going up to someone unprompted and telling them you find them unattractive and wouldn't feel comfortable touching them is. This seem like an intermediate situation where they willingly and knowingly created a situation where they would have to do the latter. Refusing to kiss or touch anon wasn't the fault here, initiating the game was.
- It sounds like he joined (sat down into) an existing game, which if this story was true, which it isn't, because it's 4chan, would be pretty different?

Had something similar to this happen to me when I was about 9.

In primary school I was invited to a birthday party. We played truth or dare. A Portuguese girl in my class was dared to kiss me. She actually started crying because she really didn't want to go near me.

Not even the worst rejection I had.

Remove the romance element from it.
If the bottle spins, someone has to spend time in your company doing something you enjoy. You and your friends all agree. The bottle lands on you, and suddenly whatever it was you enjoy is not just "unenjoyable" but is actively repulsive to the other people. Ironically, I'd expect people to be repulsed by having to do half my hobbies, so this isn't a perfect reframing.
Apologies if I'm not being sensitive to your thought patterns. But there must be a way of reframing this that you can see why someone would be upset that their "friends" find them actively repulsive to even be around.
- I think you've got a good approach. I'm not fully allosexual myself, but it seems to me the most painful part of this would be the loss of esteem. To be excluded from anything so blatantly...
  People want to be liked. It means social safety, inclusion in a group. Sexuality is just one of its expressions.
Yeah, people can get upset about this kind of thing.
14 yr olds triply so.
do people really get upset about this?
Yes. I'll dive in, assuming that the greentext is real; the scenario is plausible enough.
Romantic rejection is painful, as it's based on an instinct to achieve a strong mutual bond with someone else. This may or may not be conflated with a drive to reproduce, depending on the level of sexual attraction involved. The sensation of loss here, can manifest in actual physical pain in one's head and/or viscera, and is proportional to the level of "drive". This also gets coupled with a sensation of loss as the reward for achieving that mutuality is a moment that is usually followed by intense pleasure (even without sex); suddenly realizing that reward isn't coming, hurts.
The second part, where the group continues without Anon, is similar but a different phenomenon. It's rejection from the entire social group. Our instincts to be social creatures causes us to feel this as a loss (painful), because we're safer and stronger in groups. Instinctively, the sensation will subside once Anon figures out how be confident with being alone, or (more likely) finds a more compatible social group.
Attempting to introspect the above sensations without support can also go to bad places. Anon mentions his self-esteem - they are blaming themself since that's a position of "control", but ignoring the reality that this was all impossible to predict or avoid. In reality, the other partygoers are a bunch of insensitive assholes and carry 100% of the blame here. This person really needs to be around people with more empathy.
Combined, Anon is in a world of physical and psychological pain. They were denied a potential romantic and/or sexual reward, and were rejected by the entire social group. Both forms of rejection provoke instinct and our reward centers in ways that just make a person miserable.

should've stolen the damn bottle infront of them.

Its not that serious

It is literally soul-crushing
- It's not real