Touching Grass at Archery Meetup

>be me >go to archery meetup >like ten people there >marked "beginners welcome" >try and introduce myself to people >nobody asks me to elaborate when I tell them what i do for work (even though they do other people) >nobody asks me what I do in my spare time even after i ask them >nobody wants to talk to me >not one person introduced themselves to me even when i saw them introducing themselves to other people >eventually tell them i have to go, nobody even said bye Is this what they meant by "touching grass"?

A sad, wide-eyed Pepe the Frog appears above a greentext story about going to a supposedly beginner-friendly archery meetup. The narrator tries to socialize but is ignored while others talk among themselves, then sarcastically wonders whether this unpleasant real-world interaction is what “touching grass” means. It is used as a reaction to loneliness, social exclusion, awkward hobby groups, or failed attempts to be more social.

• @eternalclassic / 19989 2022-09-22