I’m going to make this a very long story short because honestly…it’s a very long story.

I had these 3 friends who i was very close with. we can call them L, M & R. I became friends with L & M through university & I had been friends with R for a while.

I had previously lived with L & M however when i moved out, i asked my friend R to come live with L & M so that they could make rent.

In september, L & M got into an argument with R regarding rent, whilst i did agree with L & Ms points about R i believe the way they spoke to her and treated her was abhorrent and borderline bullying - especially given the rent situation was out of R’s control.

That being said, L & M cut me off for “siding with R”. to be clear, I never sided with R. I had a conversation with L regarding the matter and explained that i understand their frustrations but believe that their actions went a step too far - they proceeded to tell me to fuck off, hanged up the phone and never spoke to me again. M however, didn’t even have the decency to text or call me and just stopped talking to me all together.

Mind you, I have been such a good friend to both L and M and i don’t say that lightly, M use to constantly be doing all sorts of fucked up shit and i was an emotional rock for her. She even went to a point of talking shit about me for months, admitting to it & apologising and i still forgave her despite what she said about me being absolutely insane. I was constantly there for her through every break up, every family argument - i was basically her therapist and she literally cut me off without a word.

anyways skip forward in time, slowly im noticing on socials that both M & R start to remove me off of socials

for context : me and R had an argument during the september period too because she accused me of taking her tiktok camera (idek why) however moved on or so i thought but then she started removing me off socials and ignoring my calls and started reposting stuff about removing negative energy and moving in silence 😭

anyways I genuinely ignored all of this and chose not to retaliate by removing them off my other accounts or other social media platforms bc i honestly could not give af. since falling out with them i have found amazing friends and have been more at peace with myself then i ever was during my friendship with any of them.

that being said, my final straw was last night when i realised R went out of her way to remove me off of snap, make her account public - all so she could make me see that i was “following” her (basically to make me seem like a fan since her account now shows up on the same section where i follow celebs on snaps)

I proceeded to call my friend, and whilst on facetime i decided to screen share my snap to show her what i had seen, she then suggested to just block them off everywhere - to which i agreed.

I completely forgot i was screen sharing mind you and have now “screen recorded” my chats with M & R and their best friends who I had also decided to remove.

I now feel like i’ve played into their petty game. it seems like i’ve done this on purpose to make them aware of the fact that i’ve blocked them and feel like they’re gonna use this to blow everything out of proportion since i’ve been silent and not giving them reactions this entire time. Like idk if i look like an asshole for screen recording even if it was unintentional because at least they had the decency to do it without informing me whereas i’ve quite literally done it in a way that looks like i’m provoking them. idk i just feel like i should’ve continued my high road but also this may have needed to happen for closure ?

i guess im asking for advice on how to proceed because i feel like a part of me wants to just completely ignore them and another part of me wants to genuinely let them have it.

PS - im an overthinker so i appreciate that this entire situation isn’t a big deal in reality but it feels like a big deal to me so any advice would be appreciated