**AITA for telling my friend to stop making jokes about my goals?**
I’m 22 and recently started taking fitness and some online projects seriously.
At a small hangout, someone asked what I’ve been working on. I mentioned training consistently and trying to build something online.
One of my close friends immediately started joking like, “Here comes the millionaire speech,” and “Careful, he charges for conversations now.”
Everyone laughed. I laughed too at first, but he kept going.
Later I told him privately that I didn’t like being turned into a joke every time I talk about trying to improve myself.
He said I’m being sensitive and that it was “just jokes.” A couple people said I should’ve just let it go.
I didn’t insult him. I just told him to stop.
AITA?
Info: what is this “online project”? It’s not some crypto scheme is it?
INFO: is it an MLM? Or one of the zillions of “coaching business” platforms where people make möbius strips of courses about how to build a course so they can teach others to teach courses?
No MLM, no coaching loop stuff. Just small online projects I’m building myself.
NTA
If your response to someone telling you that they don’t think your joke is funny is to tell them they’re “too sensitive and its just a joke” then your a AH. Your friend is a HUGE AH and so is everyone telling you to let it go.
NTA. You’re too sensitive mean: I don’t care about how you feel, I’ll do whatever I want and blame you for not liking it, I don’t really respect you so shut up. People who hurt you and blame you aren’t friends. They are the people you should flee from.
I get why you would react that way, but honestly the fact that everyone laughed at “here comes the millionaire speech” suggests to me that you’re being really obnoxious about your goals in conversations with others.
NTA. You drew your boundaries
NTA. I’ve had “friends” like that before. My experience, they’re insecure and try to put you down when they see you doing well and then they try to play it off as a ‘joke’ when confronted about it.
NTA
While you’re being sensitive as he calls it, he’s being insensitive. If I had to choose, I know which one I’d rather be. Which one would you choose?
Nope. Dont care if your goal is to be the world’s best power farter and start the power fart league. If it’s constructive, or at least not destructive, your friend needs to cheer you on.
So…where does one sign up for this Power Fart League? Asking for a friend…
I WANT IN!!
Is your online project OF? Because looking at your post history..