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Does my guy best friend like me?

So like we work together and have been really good friends for 6 months. He always kinda
follows me around like a puppy. He always stands behind me when he should be working at
other spots. He likes to poke me and stuff. For a week or so he would like poke my arm or
lightly kick my leg or something because I pretended it "scared me" for jokes. One time he came behind me to "scare me" and he kinda put his hands on my sides. He always butts into my conversations with my friends. But here's the kicker. He often gets snarky with me and always makes my issues so little and make it out to seem like everything is worse for him. He has low self esteem though. He also had a girlfriend but they broke up pretty fast. Back then I thought he really liked me, but when he got a girlfriend I thought otherwise. He doesn't text me ever, but we did text for a few days one time. He begged me and begged me to send him a photo for a contact photo of me even when I said I didn't have any good photos of me. He then sent me multiple photos to "choose from" to set as his contact photo. He also said he hates to admit it but he likes to see me at work and talk to me about things.. What does this mean? He also said that I was his favorite person, but he also said his ex he was in love with was his favorite person and it hurt him to say someone was his favorite person. Then he replied to my text with "you're my favorite person". I'm not sure if he was serious though. Then he kind of started dry texting me and my friends told me to ignore him so I did and now he ignores me and I feel so bad and am not sure how to fix it... or even what we are to each other. Please help. Honestly I think I like him as more than a friend, I just don't think he feels the same.

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Does my guy best friend like me?
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