Marissa Meizz's Friend Club

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"Literally, like, my nipples are tingling." Special guest Marissa Meizz tells us about her radical friendship movement, No More Lonely Friends. Photo by Jasmine Clark for The New York Times But first, let’s check in on our besties. Pallavi is ON LOCATION for her FILM! We know she is SLAYING in Oklahoma, but we can’t wait for her to come back. The realities of being mid-thirties are sinking in as the gals discover Zoom backgrounds for the first time after doing the show virtually for a year and a half. Gabrielle was “fully fucking attacked” after seeing a video saying that everyone over thirty has not changed their makeup routine in fifteen years. And apparently Instagram is dying, which no one told us about. But if Instagram is dying, that means we’re dying. Thank god this week’s special guest is so good at TikTok. Listen To WAFF On A New Platform! Download WhoHAHA! Instafriends or Reality Segment: Marissa Meizz's TikToks More like TikTok or Reality. Social Med’s or Reality? It’s a work in progress. Either way Marissa Meizz rose to friendship fame on TikTok through an unlikely connection. On May 17th, TikTok user Drew Harding (@drewbdoobdoo) overheard two girls walking around NYC talking about how they were planning a birthday for the weekend Marissa was going to be out of town so she wouldn’t be able to come. He thought it was funny and make a TikTok about the situation, asking people to help him find the Marissa they were talking about, never thinking he would actually find her. Marissa caught wind of the viral TikTok through a text from her Aunt, and eventually decided to contact Drew. After talking with him and figuring out that she was the Marissa he heard about, she had to respond. Her response Tik Tok went even MORE viral than the first and thousands of people responded offering to be her new friends. After being dubbed the “CEO of Friendship” and “The World’s Best Friend” by her thousands of TikTok followers, Marissa started No More Lonely Friends as a friendship hype club, and everything that happened after that just fell in her lap. No More Lonely Friends hosted its first friend picnic on June 5th in Central Park and over 200 people attended. From there the movement just kept growing! P.S. Follow the WAFF Instagram (it's really good) WAFF-stagram Marissa told us about how she develops new friendships under all this viral friend pressure. Making friendship your business can blur the lines and be difficult to deal with. She says that you just have to put faith into the relationship and believe it’ll work. She mentioned that this can be hard especially after a friend break up like the one she just went through very publicly, which she got no closure from. Those friends never spoke to her again. Even though everyone should keep an eye out for red flags, believing in something is much easier than believing the world is after you. And isn’t that something we all need to hear sometimes? Marissa has always had a passion for helping other people and wanted to advocate for mental health before No More Lonely Friends. She talked with G&P about how important it is to keep checking in on your own mental health while helping others. Is there something YOU want G and P to discuss? Leave WAFF a voicemail! Lightning WAFF! Do you have none, one, or multiple best friends? “I would say I have like one or two. Like best friends. Yeah.” How do you keep in touch? “I live with one of them. And then the other one just like random texts or calls or whatever, facetimes, because she lives across the country so…” In one word or a hyphenate, what kind of friend are you? What would your title be? “I would say like a loyal ride or die” What would you like to do better as a friend? “Possibly like, spending more quality time together. I don't really have a lot of quality time so when I do get it, I want to like, actually enjoy it and not feel like I'm just being forced to spend time with somebody because I haven't seen them in a while.” What are friends for? “I think friends are for a support system, a backing of you and them. I think that it's just a part of life that you kind of like, need and crave that social interaction of having somebody that you know isn't your family, or if you're not close with your friends, family, they are your family. And I think that's something that I've leaned into my whole entire life, and why friendship means so much to me is because, you know I'm not really close to my family so my friends are my family, and they are my whole entire life. And so I think I take that very seriously so when something does happen like that, it kind of hurts a lot and so I think that friends are that support. Support of your whole entire, kind of just, world goes round and you need to support them, they need to support you, and it needs to be like a mutual, it needs to be like a friendship, a family of everything above.” Join WAFF on Patreon to access our vodcasts, live shows, and MORE! WAFF Patreon You can support No More Lonely Friends by checking out their merch on nomorelonleyfriends.com, and if you need a friend, Marissa is still doing friend picnics across the United States and hopes to plan international picnics in 2022. Photo by Jasmine Clark for The New York Times Join us next week for more platonic love from Gabrielle and Pallavi!