its an overused trope in anime. popular guy likes the nerd. surprise, surprise. As a naive sixteen year old, I believed someday I'd witness it in real life. No such luck. Grew the hell up.
Have you ever seen a popular person chase a nerd (non popular person) in real life?
I did however get approached by one, i think.(me being the "nerd" in this story)
In school, we got off class, about 30 of us and are moving bunched together towards our next class that is to the right and also downstairs.
As everybody swarms right like mindless drones along the T corridor, as i too am about to turn right amomg them. She, a really hot, funny and really popular girl somehow teleported to my left and said to me "Hey [name], were are you going, the class is on the left!". To that an idiot replied "nah it's to the right downstairs". "Oh, okay" she replied, thinking back, looking kind of sad too.
Years later i suddenly found out, it's not easy being an idiot, as it finally hit me. And we never spoke again, she did offer to lend me a pen or a ruler a few times, during class, but i already had all the gear.
Maybe it's nothing, maybe i'm more hoping it was something than it was. I was going trough hard times during it, would have been nice to just have a friend.
Anyway i think that this is the closest i have gotten to anything regarding the question.
I dont know. I know that some popular girls had crushes on me back in high school. I found out recently after coming back "home" after moving out at 18.
Back in high school, I had zero friends. I had zero friends since 2nd or 3rd grade actually.
Everyone hated me. Even my teachers at school joined in on the making fun of me.
So I dont know why on earth any girl would ever have a crush on the kid who was a complete and utter social outcast.
The only thing i can think of, is how much fighting i used to do. Bullied hated me and I'd get jumped. But i took karate since I was like 8, so i never got beat up and handled the bullies physically very easily. That didn't mean they didn't stop harassing me all day, and trying to do everything they could to make me look bad in front of girls.
I had a HUGE crush on this popular dude when I was in highschool, we had a few classes together and I would just drool... I was a pretty normal chick though, i wasn't a nerd nor was I a barbie doll, I was somewhere in between and just midning my own bussines... Well... once we took a 1 week school trip to the mountains, electricity went off, and the guys came to your girls cabin to hang out, but they planed to scare us, i was the one to open the door and just as they where pranking us I got so scared I hit my Crushes Jewls... -_- After a while he stepped outside to get fresh air and i noticed, i followed him cuz i wanted to appologize and he just pined me against a wall and kissed me... so ye... lol i was a senior and he was my prom date as well... was cool while it lasted. well today we're just friends, we both got different spouses but it's really cute to think of it from time to time.
A friend was pretty unpopular and kind of an outcast in high school. Lots of guys chased her because she had huge boobs and was really pretty but didn’t show it off. Once one guy had her they would dump her and another would try. On and on and she would fall for it every time because she just wanted to be liked. It went on until even she thought that was all she had to offer.
That’s the real life version of those stories. Popular guy chases a pretty nerd girl and he and all his friends use her up. There’s no love. There’s no redemption. Just a lonely girl being used.
This actually happened to me in high school. This is a true story.
I was the nerdy girl back in high school who hung out with all of my other nerdy friends, us talking about anime, games, and movies (mostly anime.) And of course, I noticed this really popular guy who everyone else also had a crush on, like literally. He had everything, intelligence , played sports, was nice to everyone, and extremely good looking. Because of the fact that I was a nerd, I never got the chance to talk to him. I merely watched him from afar without him knowing, which was enough for me. When I was hanging out with my friend, he passed us by and my friend started talking to him, clearly showing she’s interested too. I was like first of all, how do you know him, and secondly, I don’t blame you haha. Unfortunately for me, we never talked at all throughout high school. I kept my usual watching from afar until I just stopped. Eventually, I got over this high school popular boy crush.
Now it’s been ten years since I graduated from high school. Went through the usual adult stuff, got my masters and bachelor’s degree, been in two different relationships. Never got married though. To be honest, I never thought about the popular guy from high school, but I figured why not? I found him on social media and found out that he wasn’t married, but he had a girlfriend. Good for him.
Then one day, I was hanging out at a store, shopping for clothes. Unbeknownst to me, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and it was that same popular guy from high school! The same popular and extremely good looking guy, but even more than before. I didn’t know what to say, so he did all of the talking for me. He asked me if we went to the same high school and even though it took me awhile for me to remember him, I eventually said yes. We were talking about the most random things and reminiscing about high school. We got along so perfectly.
After him breaking up from his girlfriend and hanging out a few times, we got together and are beyond happy. We are currently engaged and can’t wait to spend the rest of our lives together.
Yes, it can happen to anyone. I’m living proof! :D
Lol, this type of stuff happens only in books, movies and Wattpad haha. I read loads of Wattpad and trust me, it is filled with bad boy and the nerd books (I’m not into bad boys tho, more into good guys) I wish this happened in real life to me haha. I’m in high school, senior year and all, it’s be fun if a guy actually at least liked me
Yes I have been and to be one hundred percent honest with you I absolutely love nerds if I was given the choice between chasing the popular girl are chasing the nerd that I like. I would definitely chase the nerd because she's just 10 times more beautiful on the inside then the other popular girl
As an adult I don't really look at people as "nerds" anymore but I do still notice "popular" people as being a thing. They're the ones with a lot of friends or the ones who are generally seen getting 300+ likes on their pictures. You hope to see it happen but generally it doesn't... popular people and unpopular people/"nerds" generally don't seem to interact much. Let alone the popular person go for the nerds. Our high school was so divided between popular and unpopular people, it was crazy.
Chasing? No. But I’ve seen relationships happen where the popular person initiated things and the nerd was more than willing. Although at my high school a lot of popular people were also really book smart, so that probably helped.
I have been on both sides of the situation. One of the disadvantages of being from a lifetime being a dependent of a US Department of Defense father. So in one situation I was the popular guy, then my family moved to another country and then I became the one being chased. Talk about irony.
popular girls are extemely unlikely to pursue unpopular guys.
popular guys are somewhat indifferent to whether a girl is popular or not. They will pursue pretty girls. However "being pretty" boosts the odds of a girl being popular so there tends to be overlap.
In our relationship I’m definitely the popular person and my wife is the nerd. Granted I was no Tom Brady growing up I was more the guy that didn’t fit in to any of the clicks but had friends from them all.
I saw the opposite a foreign exchange nerd chase a popular girl in a movie. He tried to win her over though out the movie and finally won her at the end.
Omg. I’ve always been very popular and love nerds. I don't know why. One that I really liked was an ex’s friend. Not even attractive but I was obsessed with her. She did have a pretty good figure though.
As a former high school guys I can say you probably did the right thing. Me and all the guys I knew in High School were obsessed with one thing and one thing alone.
Granted, maybe we were just the perverts and stayed away from the “nice guys” LOL but I doubt it.
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