everyone here is just a popularity grabbing attention whore. and its VERY clear who the people trying to grab popularity are, they will ignore you to no end unless they think they can benefit from you popularity-wise. I used to sit around meetups alone to no end and a lot of the mentioned type people would just ignore me and not even wave or say hi, but as soon as they saw someone popular interact with me theyd do it too assuming they would benefit from it for popularity. all they want is to leech off popularity or ape the popular ones to be "in" with them
9/10 people here are fake as fuck and dont give a single shit about you, but since that is now the standard the quieter people actually worth speaking to get pushed out or into the background.