I (22 M) am still ocassionally bothered by a social media incident that happened when I was 13. I would like to hear some outside perspective on who was actually in the wrong.
The summer before 8th grade, I started a new instagram account. To build a following, I made the (social awkward) move to direct message the entire grade (yes, all 100-200 of them individually) asking to follow my account. This, however, led to a response of the entire class publicly posting the conversation to their main instagram story to mock me.
Although I acknowledge that DMing an entire grade to follow me was cringe on my end, I do feel as though an entire grade punching down and mocking one individual person was overboard.
AITA for asking everyone to follow me, or were my classmates the AHs for coordinating a grade-wide public mockery of their classmate?