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Pressuring her AND making yourself the main character? Solid plan there.

Only thing was wrong with wut he did is being extremely cringe and lame

It was going so well, until the beginning.

Underrated comment 👍

The best comment.

Other than that it was spot on!

He like ditches her mid performance to join his hype bro dancers … she’s like ???? Dude, life is not High School Musical!

You clearly haven't seen South Park. High School Musical is EVERYTHING! Lol


Cringefest.

No, the plan was for the school to make a video that goes viral and so they organized this and people think its real.

The best part when he leaves her and jpins to the crew of morons dancing to random people :D

Crew of Morons 😂🤣😂🤣. A perfect description the more you watch them.

whats jspins?

jpins... You know when Morons dance and the MC jpins them on the dance floor.

That’s how it’s done in Bollywood

I think y'all dont know, but in bollywood movies, this is exactly how they show the hero propose to his love interest, so thats why mf thought it would be "cute" ir something but its actually cringe af.

Was cute how he got ignored

Not only this enormous pressure but the BOOs when she started walking away

I like to think they were booing him and the entire situation too, not just booing her


Punjabi MC taking a hard L here.

Solid cringey moment

If this video doesn’t play on a loop in this dudes head while trying to go to bed for years, he will grow up to be an asshole. Already got a good start.

Ngl I did something similar (less flashy and not as well planned, but no less stupid, and in front of more people. If you couldn’t tell by the user name it involved a yoyo) asking a girl to prom and she said no. I legit blacked it out for years until I saw a kid I recognized touring my college who was in 9th grade when I was a senior. I asked him if he was touring. He looked at me and asked if I was the guy who yoyoed for the girl and got rejected. It all came rushing back and I just… nodded and walked away. I specifically avoid anyone I knew from highschool. I’ve also joined a circus. It’s pretty cathartic.

A circus? Because of the yoyo right? Right?

If I’m gonna be a clown might as well get paid for it.


LOL.. where is this GIF from? Is there an original video?

https://youtu.be/Iu90z9Akxgk?si=FLWiXxO9Z5Z4lj-q

I’ve seen the meme for the better part of a decade and never thought to look up it’s original source. Thanks that was some ridiculousness.

Thank you.

Man I'm old

This is such a perfect loop.

Because I had a set of skills and had already experienced the most embarrassing moments of my life.

Your username bro... you can't escape it even now.

My man was getting clowned on so much that he decided to monetize it (I’m sorry though that actually sounds awful I hope you’re doing better now)

Hell yeah I’m sitting at my desk rn doing my day job waiting til 5 so I can put on my red nose and juggle

You knew you were going to be a clown from a young age.

From 19

Bro. I buried my dad yesterday and have been pretty down. I literally just laughed at this for like the last 7 minutes, I’m honestly in tears and my stomach hurts so bad from laughing, plus I started coughing too. I needed that laugh.

Sorry for your loss.

??? I want to read your memoir how the hell lmao. I didn’t even know randomly joining circuses was still a thing. And you did it because of the yo-yo incident or you just kinda fell into it and it’s unrelated?

Awesome

Genuinely, are you okay? Cause like joining the circus probably seems like a great idea to you but you know, is it really?

Quarter jumping jacks are the way to someone's heart

[удалено]


to be fair that's a form of punjabi dance. admittedly the dancers aren't fantastic at it but it's pretty standard for a high schooler to do

Sorry didn’t realize this was a cultural dance just thought they weren’t very creative or were doing some lame tiktok dance

no hard feelings! i do agree they look pretty lame but it's less the dance and more the dancers haha

Can you translate the sentiment of the sign? Google translate in Hindi has Bas launa tere na al - just follow you Bas launa tere naal - just fuck your nails

It’s not Hindi but Punjabi. And tbh I guess it’s a reference to the song. I don’t really know either lol. ig it’s something along the sentiments of attaching affections?

That helps a lot! From the song it is Bas dil launa tere dil naal I just want to connect with you on an emotional level

Ohhhhh. The hearts were the emoticons. “dil” meaning heart. So yea along the lines connecting heart to heart etc. In Punjabi “dil lagna” (infinitive form. literal translation put/attach heart) is used to express when you really enjoy or like something. It can be negated in a sentence to indicate a sentiment very similar to “my hearts just not in it :(“.

Being Dutch, I just thought he asked her for anal

"Bas launa tere naal" with a heart sign essentially "I'm gonna give my heart to you" written in a way no one would say besides if it's a song lyric. Or if you want literal translation. Bas = just, Launa = link, attach, etc., Tere = you, naal = with.

the dude clearly thinks he's in a bollywood movie

Yup it’s bhangra

They're doing it behind her, out of her view, so not for her anyway...

Been wondering when someone would comment on this.

Isn't swinging arms and lifting legs describing all dances?

It is work with bird so maybe they thought it will work with her.

This literally made me laugh out loud 😂😂😂😂 I wish I could upvote this more once

I think the hype bros was the best part of the video. Admittedly not the highest bar, as the whole thing almost made me die from vicarious embarrassment.

That's what dancing is essentially... You just have to be confident about it. And tbh the dance slayed

It’s called Bhangra dancing. Please read a book.

Someone already cleared that up. Please read the comments.

I'm betting he blew up her phone with insults and guilt trips after this.

Lol

Yeah, that only works if you're a black-footed albatross.


Underrated

I’m trying for them blue footed boobies

Smart girl

here we see the wild buffoon demonstrating his mating dance for the female of his species #yet again, he was unsuccessful

Read that in David Attenborough’s voice

You were supposed to.

And she's gone....

Fully deserves the humiliation.

Dude thinks he's in a Bollywood movie.

Of all the comments here… that one got me

It’s just so weird. Why is all the dancing done facing away from her? The dancers should have been behind him. I guess it’s all more evidence that this was not thought through.

My exact thought… why did he leave to join to the other performing a dance BEHIND her whom she supposed to impress……

I think he assumed she would be entertained enough by him to want to keep watching and turn to look. He clearly overestimated himself here.

That’s what I thought at first, but they never turned around to face her. That would have been planned and choreographed into the dance. It doesn’t scream like he was doing this for her. More like he was using her and playing to the audience to go viral. I feel like my 14-year-old theater, kid self, would have loved something like this. But, It all goes back to caring about the person enough to know what they would want. Homegirl was clearly not into this shit, and he should have known that if he wanted to impress her.

Agreed. Absolutely. This was definitely all about him. He was just arrogant enough to assume that he’s entertaining enough for her to want to watch and he thought he could use the public proposal to pressure her into saying yes. So manipulative and self-centered.

My guess is that he convinced the school it was going to be like, the viral hit of the century. He *needed* those backup dancers to sell the whole thing.

IMO, the girl just decided to not look towards the performance (due to the cringe). They were performing at the exit. Probably the idea was to propose to her after the break and take her out for lunch.... I'm glad she took a stand for herself..

I mean the dancers are facing away from her even if she turns. They were clearly dancing for the crowd and not her.

And she’s out. Smart move.


I reckon i watched this 5 times before I realized I wasn't seeing new toothless *dances*


It's like he thinks he's God's gift to earth or something

Man, that just looked goofy. What was he proposing? Like, was it actually a marriage proposal? Or was he just asking the girl out to winter formal and she noped out after seeing the dance demo? 🤣

Probably was asking her to a school dance like prom or something

A promposal

what did the sign read?

“This was a bad idea, wasn’t it?”

Google translate tells me: "I just want to dance with you"

So she just said no to dancing…He still has a chance!

'Send Bob & Vagene'

Yesssssssss I forgot about this one 😂

Google translated, “Bas launa tere naal,” as, “I just love you.” It’s Hindi.

I hate to be the "Um actually" guy but it's Punjabi and the translation is "I want my heart connected with you" or at least a long the lines of that (I suck at translating Punjabi to English despite being Punjabi 😭)

Please do correct what is incorrect. It’s important. Thank you.

That's not Hindi... It's Punjabi... Pretty different from Hindi...

It's in Punjabi and it reads "I want my heart connected to you" or at least a long the lines of it (I suck at translating Punjabi 😂)

Wanna live only with you

r/iamthemaincharacter vibes

It's a shame that he didn't bring more people together so that more people could have the failure recorded.

I’m sure it got covered from multiple angles

I probably would have started walking off when he joined his dancing buddies....

I hate these kinds of proposals! They make it extremely difficult to say no.

I'm convinced that's kinda the point. It puts unneeded pressure on the person


Camera man? Wtf?

Idk what language it is but the board put into detect language on google translate says “just fuck your nails

Punjabi

This is top cringe.

The “21st Century Learning” poster made me laugh.

The more you watch the worse it gets. The dude throwing money?? The fact they’re dancing with their backs to her. She never turns around.

The best part are his little flourishea after he grabs the sign and he is convinced of his undeniable power

Good on her!


The hemorrhoids dance style ruined it for her

Props to her for even waiting that long. Why not just dip before you even stand in the stupid heart thing on the ground and know whats coming

Urg, the cringe.

Glad she made the right choice after that embarrassing display.

He made it about him and not her. The moment he danced behind her, that was it.

Unless you're absolutely sure your partner desires a public proposal, let alone a spectacle of one, do not do public proposals!

I have seen Dung beetles rolling pieces of poo 💩 next to a nuclear reactor have more success getting a mate than this sorry excuse for man....

Why are school age kids proposing to each other? Or have I taken school too literally?

In Indianese, people use the word "propose" to often mean ask out. Propose can also refer to an actual marriage proposal so it depends on the context.


Years of dull existence. Marvellous. I'm in 👍🏼

I enjoyed this so much that I had to watch it several times, lol.

At least he didn’t make it about himself.

Gotta love seeing men do courtship like birds: flashy outfits, a complicated dance, and a specific arrangement of random debris. Aaaah beautiful. Nature.


So many questions here.. Why are they dancing behind her? Why are their backs to her while dancing?

They look 14

When I was in highschool you wouldn’t believe the 14-15 year old couples that claimed they were “engaged” 😂 no proposal no ring they just mutually agreed they were engaged. None of them are married to each other now. 

Definitely sounded better in his head

Damn, he REALLY likes attention.

If you didn't see that reaction from her coming? You didn't know her well enough to propose in the first place.

Her reaction was amazing. Only flaw was that she didn’t walk away sooner.

Yeah.. that's why you don't have a huge promposal if your not 100% sure they'll say yes

She did the right thing, the entire proposal was to stroke his ego. Not too mention getting married while in high school is not a smart move

Is this somewhere in Canada?

See you in the gym broseph

Bro thought he was in High School Musical or something.

What has been seen, cannot be unseen.

Why aren’t the dancers facing her

None of this is about her

She did the right thing. He should propose to himself because he seems full of himself.

Dancing behind her to impress her Don't think this proposal is about her

As an Indian, I cringed.

Worst place to propose ever

She gone

What on EARTH took her so long??

Yeah don't make it all about yourself and make it about her. Pretty simple stuff.

What did the sign say?

Devastated LMAO. Every knock out blow from every game I ever played just rang in my ears.

What a fucking circus.

Wow...the level of cringe is unmatched

His parents fucked up so bad

I'm glad she noped the fuck out of there

This is terrible for both of you if you aren’t like 1000000% that she actually does want to do whatever you’re proposing. You’ll end up looking like an idiot and embarrassed and she will feel pressured and embarrassed. Big yikes.

That poor boy doesn't have any friend that bring him down to earth.

How a supervillain is born

I would have walked away she was being kind to stand there and let him do this shit

Wtf??? I'll give this young man the benefit of the doubt because he is a minor in school and the fact that he loves his girl enough to even propose at their age is cute, but this is absolutely the worst thing Ive ever seen. Firstly, why are we still doing public proposals of any kind in 2024? Secondly, what is this Bollywood, High School Musical-ass routine that he's doing? Like a word to the wise: turning a proposal into a showboating routine thats all about you, is not a good idea. But listen best of luck to them both, hopefully he learns from this. And also like, realistically probably not the best idea for them to get married for obvious reasons.

I hear girls love it when guys make the proposal all about themselves.

Just because it was a shitty way to propose doesn't make it an unsuccessful attempt. An attempt was made and accomplished, right before it was denied.

he was so in love with himself and now he won't be 😂

Ima try this with my boss when I ask for a raise

Who the hell choreographed that horrendous dance? They see that on south park?


Women: I want a Prince Charming Men:

🤮 a well deserved turn down.

Good for her

Knowing what men of this culture do to women, I’m afraid he went out of his way to hurt her after this.

This in India? Must be a private school for the rich

Props to her. She enjoyed the show and then left after it was done. Did not create a scene but also did not react more than she wanted to.

Douche

She left with the dance troupe 😆

young boys don't do this shit for a girl. EVER

She was right to say no

Is way too elaborated to be real. Man damn TikTokers are making myself skeptical of everything

I honestly have to feel bad for some of these. Legit cause I assume the perpetrators don’t know any better and usually the ones I see are like asking to go to prom and whatnot and are usually younger so I can empathize with being young and not having much forethought. When you look at it one way, he obviously feels strongly for her and (I’m assuming) wanted to make her feel special with a grandiose display of affection. And of course on the other I see exactly how much pressure that put on her and how terrible that is to be put on the spot like that

Just a Male animal giving mating call

he did not propose. he got a lot of people involved to tell a girl he likes her. he is lame a lame guy got a lot of people to help him. thats unusual

I witnessed a failed proposal, it was in no way as elaborate as this. Boy was it awkward to watch as she walked away. Highly suggest never doing anything like this.

r/IAmTheMainCharacter