Marissa Meizz first gained social media attention when TikTok user @drewbdoobdoo sought her out after overhearing a group of her friends devising a plan to intentionally exclude her from a birthday party.
'I hate to be the one to stick my nose where it doesn't belong. But if your name's Marissa, please listen up,' Drew said in a video. He explained that he was walking by her friends in the park and that they intentionally chose to plan a party while she was out of town.
Meizz, who revealed that she was the woman targeted by the friend group in Drew's video, was met with an outpour of support from other users on the platform and decided to host an in-person meet-up with her new internet friends.
Since the first picnic get together in New York City, Meizz has started the No More Lonely Friends club and hosted meet-ups across the nation.
A 23-year-old New York woman has gone viral for starting a club to meet new friends after she learned her so-called friends had intentionally excluded her from an event
So many people contacted Marissa Meizz after the incident, requesting to be her friends that she decided to host a picnic in Central Park. 200 people attended the event
She said thousands of social media users reached out to her after the incident saying things like: 'We should be friends,' 'Keep your head up,' and 'This happened to me too'.
'People were pouring their lives out in my DMs and kept saying they were lonely,' she explained. 'So, I made a video the next day and said 'let's all meet up at one time''.
The influencer says her friends did not attempt to contact her after they were exposed, and that she has not heard from them since.
Meizz hosted her first picnic meet-up in Central Park and nearly 200 people attended. She posted a video of the event, which also went viral.
'People kept commenting, 'Come to my city, come to my city,'' she said. Meizz drove to the nearby cities of Boston and Philadelphia to host meet-ups there as well.
Meizz has hosted nine meet-ups in total since, some as far away as Los Angeles and San Francisco.
She has another picnic scheduled for next Saturday in Washington D.C. and plans hold more throughout the rest of the year.
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Three comments:
1] What is tik tok?
2] What Drew did is called in Halacha "רכילות".
3] This brings home a big principal for life. People need social interaction. You need other people and they need you. For a fulfilling, rich and happy life - make sure you have good friends. It is ONE of the keys.
