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NicNock
i'm a little confused as to the purpose of mutuals, at first I thought it was a way of "staying connected" but I've seen people farm it like pp post count

I've only ever followed people to "pin" a certain individual or because they asked to mutual, but now I'm curious to know why you mutual

so why do you mutual?
z0z
make a connection with a person
Ymir
I only mutual if people ask me to, and even then it's only if I'm at least somewhat aware of the persons existence.

Why do I do it? Because I was asked to.
Achromalia
it's usually some ambiguous mixture of the answers here. it's a way for me to both "certify" and "pin" my connection/affiliation with someone, but also to actually signal im open to connecting with them, but also it sometimes just happens because people ask

i almost never ask to mutual anyone myself, i just friend them and see if they've already done the same with me or if they end up reciprocating later. i don't really tell anyone anything and i don't want to compel anyone to feel as though they should mutual with me. it ideally would mean something, but i suppose it doesn't have to
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NicNock
ok, so from the observed sample set of a whopping 3, I can assume that my reasons for mutualing cover most other people's reasons too

this information serves no purpose but it's nice to know nonetheless (in which case it probably did serve a purpose)
DM FOR MUTUAL
I had a free name change from osu supporter so I decided to give myself the goofiest name imaginable

I think the other option I was heavily considering was "RAWR ARF ARF GRR" or something along those lines, but I'm not a furry and I thought it'd be annoying if everyone assumed I was one, nor was a I really interested in playing a bit that I was a furry, so I went for this name instead

So that's why I started collecting mutuals, because I thought this name was funny.

The only other thing would be that I think it would be cool to have 1000 mutuals, because it feels like an interesting goal, especially because for the first year or two when I played osu without joining OT I was pretty disconnected from the community. I think that if I had joined OT a few months later than I did I would've literally hit 4 digit with 0 followers on my account, and seeing how I had no followers when literally everyone else seemingly had at least a few kinda made me want to see that number go up.

And who are the other people you've see farm mutuals? Please tell me so I can mutual them thanks
burgernfat
number go up
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NicNock

DM FOR MUTUAL wrote:

I had a free name change from osu supporter so I decided to give myself the goofiest name imaginable

I think the other option I was heavily considering was "RAWR ARF ARF GRR" or something along those lines, but I'm not a furry and I thought it'd be annoying if everyone assumed I was one, nor was a I really interested in playing a bit that I was a furry, so I went for this name instead

So that's why I started collecting mutuals, because I thought this name was funny.

The only other thing would be that I think it would be cool to have 1000 mutuals, because it feels like an interesting goal, especially because for the first year or two when I played osu without joining OT I was pretty disconnected from the community. I think that if I had joined OT a few months later than I did I would've literally hit 4 digit with 0 followers on my account, and seeing how I had no followers when literally everyone else seemingly had at least a few kinda made me want to see that number go up.

And who are the other people you've see farm mutuals? Tell me so I can mutual them thanks
as far as I've seen, you are the only user I know who farms mutuals, you're actually why I added the mutual-farmer clause there
I'm still pretty disconnected with the community though so there's probably a few more

that backstory's kind of funny though, best of luck on the 1k

burgernfat wrote:

number go up
YOU are that other mutual farmer
burgernfat

burgernfat wrote:

number go up
YOU are that other mutual farmer
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im fucking dont i have only 7 friend
Topic Starter
NicNock

burgernfat wrote:

NicNock wrote:

burgernfat wrote:

number go up
YOU are that other mutual farmer
im fucking dont i have only 7 friend
make it 8
Noreu

NicNock wrote:

i'm a little confused as to the purpose of mutuals, at first I thought it was a way of "staying connected" but I've seen people farm it like pp post count

I've only ever followed people to "pin" a certain individual or because they asked to mutual, but now I'm curious to know why you mutual

so why do you mutual?
man when i mutual people it makes me feel like.. im not alone? its kind of a weird feeling but being mutual with some high rank people makes me feel like "damn im actually a real person playing osu rn". but if anyone wants a mutual i would mutual with them if they're ATLEAST TALKED TO ME IN THE FORUMS.. just watching your friend count go up mostly means nun to me- i actually want FRIENDS that i TALK WITH and PLAY WITH.. not like "aye lets be mutual" (never talks ever with them ever again)
Wimpy Cursed
I mutual people that I already have a connection towards or I just find them chill, but I don't ask for a mutual by them. I guess the "pin" also makes sense. But that is usually for mappers that I want to remember.

tbh I think I misunderstood everyone else's reasons when I was asked for mutuals.. I was too far into my reasoning, but did not consider to understand theirs. (or if I did, I would somehow sound mean with it.)
Declined a lot of people due to that lmao
Noreu

Wimpy Cursed wrote:

I mutual people that I already have a connection towards or I just find them chill, but I don't ask for a mutual by them. I guess the "pin" also makes sense. But that is usually for mappers that I want to remember.

tbh I think I misunderstood everyone else's reasons when I was asked for mutuals.. I was too far into my reasoning, but did not consider to understand theirs. (or if I did, I would somehow sound mean with it.)
Declined a lot of people due to that lmao
i realized that i forgor to mutual you mb cuh
sametdze
i dont care about mutuals but if people want to mutual with me i let them
- Marco -
because otherwise i feel like they hate me and i would feel alone and have no utility in osu forums and cry and cry a lot oh that's a lot of cry very very cry
EnigmaticG
Typically I just follow people who have set scores I like, and sometimes I get a mutual without saying anything, probably because I use Mutualify. It's nice to look at the Friends leaderboard of a map and challenge myself to do better.
Offdensen
i find people cool and i want friends on this game so its like. yay!
keremaru
before, i did it because i knew people on forums
now, i do it because i know people on forums, i randomly add people just to see if they've added me (and promptly unadd them if they aren't), and use them all to scale myself on friend leaderboards
the only exception to this rule is thelewa and he's added because he's goated
Karmine

keremaru wrote:

before, i did it because i knew people on forums
now, i do it because i know people on forums, i randomly add people just to see if they've added me (and promptly unadd them if they aren't), and use them all to scale myself on friend leaderboards
the only exception to this rule is thelewa and he's added because he's goated
Damn I do the same thing, my friends list is filled with randos who have/had similar rank to fill the friends leaderboard.
keremaru

Karmine wrote:

keremaru wrote:

before, i did it because i knew people on forums
now, i do it because i know people on forums, i randomly add people just to see if they've added me (and promptly unadd them if they aren't), and use them all to scale myself on friend leaderboards
the only exception to this rule is thelewa and he's added because he's goated
Damn I do the same thing, my friends list is filled with randos who have/had similar rank to fill the friends leaderboard.
i should probably add gwelawyr and cxlucha to my exceptions
one is just really nice to talk to and the other was a partner for a tournament i tried to play in back in 2019
some mishaps arised the day of our qualifiers and i absolutely sold any chances of participation, basically wasting a week of preparation
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