There are friendships, and then there is the girls’ group chat: part dating helpline, part investigation bureau and part 1am emergency room. It’s where screenshots are dissected, “hmm” is subjected to forensic analysis and a man can go from having rizz to giving the ick in three messages flat.
Event Context
THE CHAT: “FINALLYYYY.”
A) Hard launch
B) DTR
C) Micro-mance
D) Soul tie
Answer: A
7.
HER: “He disappears for days and then sends ‘miss you’ the second I stop caring.”
A) Breadcrumbing
B) Freak matching
C) Love bombing
D) Fexting
Answer: A
8.
HER: “GUYS YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHO TEXTED.”
The man who ghosted her four months ago has sent:
“Hey stranger :)”
A) Orbiting
B) Zombieing
C) Benching
D) Hardballing
Answer: B
9.
HER: “We’ve been together six months and I’ve never met a single friend of his.”
A) Pocketing
B) Affordating
C) Freak matching
D) Catching feels
Answer: A
10.
HER: “He knows I love the corner pieces of brownies, so he saved them for me”
A) Breadcrumbing
B) Micro-mance
C) Love bombing
D) Groundhogging
Answer: B
11.
HER: “He gets annoyed every time I make plans without him. Red flag or am I overthinking?”
A) Beige flag
B) Red flag
C) Ick
D) Rizz
Answer: B
12.
HER: “He talked about himself for the ENTIRE date. Ask me if he knows one thing about me.”
A) Yap-trapped
B) Kittenfished
C) Benched
D) Orbited
Answer: A
You thought a soft launch involved NASA. We cannot help you.
You read everything. You understand approximately half of it. Nobody is asking for your advice yet.
You can distinguish an ick from a red flag and know that “GUYS.” at 1.13am constitutes an emergency.
Screenshots arrive with the words: “Tell me what you think.” This is an honour and a responsibility.
Match Outlook
But could you actually keep up? This Girlfriends Day, put your Gen Z dating vocabulary to the test and find out whether you’d earn screenshot privileges or get quietly removed from the chat.
1.
The group chat diagnoses:
A) Ghosting
B) Dry texting
C) Pocketing
D) Cushioning
Answer: B
2.
The girls reply:
A) Hard launch
B) Situationship
C) Freak matching
D) Affordating
Answer: B
3.
The diagnosis?
A) Ick
B) Red flag
C) Breadcrumbing
D) Ghosting
Answer: A
4.
FRIEND 1: “Wait…”
FRIEND 2: “Okay he kinda ate.”
FRIEND 3: “Girl, he has ______.”
A) Orbit
B) Rizz
C) Cushion
D) Beige
Answer: B
5.
She sends six pictures to the group and asks:
“Which one should I post? You can only see his hand in this one.”
A) Pocketing
B) Soft launch
C) Hardballing
D) Zombieing
Answer: B
6.
Three months later:
HER: “Okay I’m posting his face.”
No explanation required. You not only understood the assignment, you can set the next one.
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