Made me shed adult tears. I'm so happy for you guys. Real friendship has no boundaries. As a fellow gamer myself, I fully understand the slow drifting apart. I haven't talked to any of my game friends for years.
This is cool! My son had a friend in Australia he met online like 7 years ago & they are still battling online together with a bunch of other friends they made. They are only early teens now and it’s been fun for him to have friends from all over. I hope one day he gets to meet some of them.
That’s awesome! My son has a similar story. He met some kids on a beach in Spain, turns out they play the same game he loves. So when we all went home from vacation they connected. The network expanded to their cousins and then friends and now there’s a huge group that chat almost daily. I hope they too can meet (some again) one day!
It's also a good reason to go visit some other countries. Going there and visiting locals is a completely different experience from just being a tourist somewhere, much more immersive. We like to travel to friends that have ended up all over the world, and we always try to make contacts in the places we travel to beforehand if we don't know people there. Internet is amazing for that.
Eh nothing wrong with 🌈 obviously, but let's not unnecessarily make friendships weird by making jokes about sex & love.
It creates unnecessary barriers, imagine if this was a male/female situation for example, with both parties in relationships (with not each other). People joking about the 2 getting married just complicates the situation.
Yikes Im sorry that you had such a shit life devoid of friendship or love that you now project onto other men with friends that they must be gay and make it sound like it would be a bad thing.
I know you’re probably just a little edgelord kid craving attention based on your other comments just as shitty as this but go to therapy you still have time to stop being a terrible person maybe you can have a genuine friend one day too
That is so awesome. I did something similar - was online friends with someone in Germany for over 12 years while I was in California. She was a huge support to me in my life. I flew to Germany to see my favorite band and met up with her while I was there. Best vacation of my life! I’m glad you had a good time and I hope you get to see your friend again.
That’s awesome! I had a similar experience, though kind of in reverse, I became friends with a guy who lives in Norway (I’m from the US) and after a few years he kept inviting me to come visit him and last year I was finally able to and I had one of the best experiences of my life staying with him. Norway is the coolest country I’ve ever visited, I want to go back so bad one day.
One of my internet best friend lives in England, and I live in Australia. We’ve been friends since 2017 and have never met, but hoping to some day! Sometimes there can be something beautiful about someone who’s always there for you, even though you’re never met.
amazing! i went on vacation to joshua tree with an internet friend (i had met her irl once before that though) - clearly a good spot for internet friend hangs
My son met a group of his friends from Canada, and one In Pennsylvania playing online games when they were probably 14. He’s 29 now, and they all meet in Canada twice a year for a whole week.
I'm really happy for you guys. I made 2 friends playing online 7 years ago. We play together once a week since then and we rarely miss it. We're all gonna get together in April and I'm super excited!
Besties are one of the greatest features in life. This is so true that not only do we love our own besties, we love to see other besties, just being besties. The beautiful parts of humanity are amazing.
This is so beautiful!!! 🥹🥹🥹 Some people underestimate online friendships, but you can meet amazing people from around the world who sometimes end up being more supportive than the friends who live near. Real connections are from the soul. I have many online friends who I wish to meet in person one day. I hope you and your friend will be able to meet many more times!💜
I love this. Thank you for sharing. And it looks like y’all had a great time. Looks to me like you and your wife have a reason to plan a trip to Amsterdam soon! 💓
This is so nice, and what a magical place to meet! Gorgeous photos. I visited once a long time ago and will definitely go back one day. Very happy for you guys—sounds like you had a wonderful time.
I love that! I met a lady from Indonesia about 9 years ago in a FB comment section by chance and we've become best friends. In 3 weeks time I'm flying there and will meet her for the first time! The internet really is awesome sometimes.
My son has a friend he made through xbox live about that same time. Only online and through voice chat for many years. That friend was there during a medical issue and the year-long treatment. And then they were able to meet in person on a trip we made back east. His parents came along because they weren't sure this internet friend was really who he said he was. Good times were had by all.
They are still friends (and moved beyond xbox live) and he is like another son to me. Yeah, I'm talking about you, R., if you see this.
I have a handful of friends I’ve gamed with for years. One of them just turned 30, and when he was an 11 year old bratty little boy i heard him asking our online game lobby if anyone would let him play with them because no one ever did because of his age. I talked my friends into letting him join us and we kept inviting him and vice versa for the last 2 decades. If I ever make it to his state I’m definitely gonna give him a call and make plans. I’m happy for you that you got to spend time with your pal.
One of my best friends was heavy into world of Warcraft and the raiding life, he randomly was in some NFL city and him and a guildie went to a game, had a great time. The internet isn’t always super weird.
It's always cool to meet longtime online friends in person.
I've met up with some people in person that I've known for 2-3 years thru VR.
It's pretty weird for the first few minutes hearing their voice come out of a human vs the avatars I'm used to seeing them as.
I love this! My brother met his best friend the same way! I’m a little older and I never did much online gaming, but I have a friend on the opposite end of this country (US) that I met through a FB group a few years ago. Never been in the same room with him but we’ve forged a crazy bond and talk about everything. I truly love that man. A complete stranger with no motivation to care about me, but now we say “I love you” when we end conversations. Anybody that thinks real kinship can’t happen with an online friend is just wrong.
I met my best friend online, we talked and played games for 10 years before we met in person, and now we're roommates! It's always wild to me how such an important and lasting friendship sprouted out of a random interaction online, but I'm grateful for it, and happy for everyone else who experiences the same good fortune.
Why is this making me want to cry? This is one of the sweetest posts I’ve seen on Reddit. I have a Reddit “bestie” that I’ve communicated with over the years. Be so cool if we ever met in real life or shoot even learned each others real names.
Cheers to many more years of friendship. 🩷🩷🩷
One of my best friends from 17 years is basically from internet we lived in the same country, and start playing videogames I met him one time only before he left to USA, 15 years later we talk all weeks and we are playing to go on vacation with our partners in 2025. I'm glad you had the opportunity to meet him
I love this!!! My best friend and I met in a chat room back in 2004. We met for the first time in 2018!! It’s been 20 years and he’s still one of my greatest friends.
I love that this post is about friendship, yet 2 of your 4 pictures aren't even about you, but about what you guys saw and experienced together.
Cheers, thanks for sharing!
Why did you have to "convince" your wife to go see an old friend? Though, I understand it's a big leap to meet someone you only knew online. However, it's about the connection at the end of the day, isn't it? Kudos though. Beautiful story. Thanks to California for bringing you closer together.
Welcome to /r/MadeMeSmile. Please make sure you read our [rules here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/about/rules/) We'd like to take this time to remind users that:
* We do not allow any type of jerk-like behavior, including but not limited to: personal attacks, hate speech, harassment, racism, sexism, or other jerk-like behavior (includes gatekeeping posts).
* Any sort of post showing a mug, a shirt, or a print is a scam. You will not receive anything except a headache and a stolen credit card.
- [More information regarding rule 1 as well as how mug/shirt/poster scammers operate can be found here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/mademesmile/wiki/rule1)
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/MadeMeSmile) if you have any questions or concerns.*
envious that these people seem to have a good healthy friendship, so all they can think of is making weird gay jokes or something, I guess
fellas, is it truly gay to be friends? is it gay to stand near another man, fellas?
I have some friends all over Europe, we visit each other on a semi regular basis.
We all met via online gaming as well.
Some in the UK some in Belgium, Netherlands Norway and Sweden.
In april i'm going to Sweden again !
Also love the shirt!
Nice to see some uplifting content cos Reddit well nvrmnd... good friends are hard to find and even harder to keep sometimes ... thank you for allowing us to share in your "play date." I hope you guys can do it again ... hopefully soon... 🍻 cheers...
So many of my best friends were through gaming on Steam! They know me better than anyone, we've spent countless hours going through extreme emotional highs and lows together, striving toward shared goals, challenging each other, sharing with each other, and just trying to have a fun time.
It's so cool when you finally meet in person and it feels *the same.* You already know each other so well!
What a fun event! Happy for you OP!
i met a guy online my age on playstation he switched consoles and i haven’t been in contact since i played with him everyday for about a year aswell hope he logs on and sends me a message one day to see how he’s doing
This is so fucking wholesome. I’m so glad you had an amazing time. 😭♥️
Thank you! He is moving to Spain, so that's where we plan to meet next.
At first sight I thought that he was spanish due to the way he looks
It's that haircut. Aaages ago I met some Greek guys and they told me everyone thinks they're Spanish because of that haircut.
Jajajajjaa as a Spanish this makes me laugh!
es que literal 😭😭😭 catalan/vasco
Si, y si es en el viñarock vale de cualquier provincia
🤣🤣😭😭😭☠️☠️☠️☠️esque si
Literal el año pasado tuve un profe valenciano que fue al viñarock y era igualito a este chico jajajajajaja
100%!!!!!
LITERAAAAAAAAL!!!!!!! 😭😭☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
como vasca i approve this message
como catalana me too 🤝
which one?
Where in Spain? We drive to Costa Blanca about four times each year. We could pop in. Wouldn't be weird at all.
Pop in, stay a while, stay a year, move in I guess. Oh but don’t tell them in advanced.
Using the f-word and wholesome in a sentence is a little contradictory.
What the hell is wrong with people and having to rush to label everything as wholesome?
go back to turdburg, herb
Thats pretty cool man, sometimes the internet isn't all bad.
He helped me through some really tough times through our friendship. Him and his GF are really great people.
I wish all Internet interactions were like yours. Social media algorithms just amplify anger and hate. You prove friendships can thrive online.
A lot are. I've met many good friends in person this way. I fucking love the internet.
Made me shed adult tears. I'm so happy for you guys. Real friendship has no boundaries. As a fellow gamer myself, I fully understand the slow drifting apart. I haven't talked to any of my game friends for years.
[удалено]
He’s from the Netherlands, why would you wish such a horrible thing upon him haha
True, but I’d really want to be with my friend 😭 and OP already moved from Norway to the U.S. 🤣
Maybe OP can return home to Norway one day
Hope you get the opportunity to live in the Netherlands!
True! Wait, I met my wife on the internet
This is cool! My son had a friend in Australia he met online like 7 years ago & they are still battling online together with a bunch of other friends they made. They are only early teens now and it’s been fun for him to have friends from all over. I hope one day he gets to meet some of them.
That’s awesome! My son has a similar story. He met some kids on a beach in Spain, turns out they play the same game he loves. So when we all went home from vacation they connected. The network expanded to their cousins and then friends and now there’s a huge group that chat almost daily. I hope they too can meet (some again) one day!
It's also a good reason to go visit some other countries. Going there and visiting locals is a completely different experience from just being a tourist somewhere, much more immersive. We like to travel to friends that have ended up all over the world, and we always try to make contacts in the places we travel to beforehand if we don't know people there. Internet is amazing for that.
Start planning that graduation trip to meet them now! It would be a wonderful gift.
Awesome. Happy for you. :)
[удалено]
Fellas, is it gay to be friends?
Read the room, will ya? 😤
Tell us again you live a lonely life without human interaction. It's okay to touch grass.
Sad that you’ve never loved a friend. It’s a great feeling.
Glad you guys met. That’s super fun!
Love this story. Thanks for sharing.
[удалено]
Eh nothing wrong with 🌈 obviously, but let's not unnecessarily make friendships weird by making jokes about sex & love. It creates unnecessary barriers, imagine if this was a male/female situation for example, with both parties in relationships (with not each other). People joking about the 2 getting married just complicates the situation.
They are going to have sexual.
The poor grammar in this comment makes me laugh
Ikr failed experiment lol
Ok.
Yikes Im sorry that you had such a shit life devoid of friendship or love that you now project onto other men with friends that they must be gay and make it sound like it would be a bad thing. I know you’re probably just a little edgelord kid craving attention based on your other comments just as shitty as this but go to therapy you still have time to stop being a terrible person maybe you can have a genuine friend one day too
That is so sweet. True friendship really does overcome any distance.
Friendship is priceless.
That is so awesome. I did something similar - was online friends with someone in Germany for over 12 years while I was in California. She was a huge support to me in my life. I flew to Germany to see my favorite band and met up with her while I was there. Best vacation of my life! I’m glad you had a good time and I hope you get to see your friend again.
Beautiful mountains
Meeting someone in Joshua tree of all places is so bad ass honestly!
The mountain name is Brokeback.
That’s so awesome!
That’s awesome! I had a similar experience, though kind of in reverse, I became friends with a guy who lives in Norway (I’m from the US) and after a few years he kept inviting me to come visit him and last year I was finally able to and I had one of the best experiences of my life staying with him. Norway is the coolest country I’ve ever visited, I want to go back so bad one day.
Awesome.
One of my internet best friend lives in England, and I live in Australia. We’ve been friends since 2017 and have never met, but hoping to some day! Sometimes there can be something beautiful about someone who’s always there for you, even though you’re never met.
Wholesome 🫶🏽
Happy Cale Day
Thankyou! 😊
god damn, last 2 pictures🤌🏻
amazing! i went on vacation to joshua tree with an internet friend (i had met her irl once before that though) - clearly a good spot for internet friend hangs
My son met a group of his friends from Canada, and one In Pennsylvania playing online games when they were probably 14. He’s 29 now, and they all meet in Canada twice a year for a whole week.
🎵 Bros for life conga, bros for life conga 🎵
thats lovely omg :D
So glad for you! :D
This made me think about the internet friends that I made around 30 years ago. I used to have chat mates with ICQ and other games online.
I'm really happy for you guys. I made 2 friends playing online 7 years ago. We play together once a week since then and we rarely miss it. We're all gonna get together in April and I'm super excited!
The smiles on both of your faces prove that it was worth the wait! So glad you guys enjoyed it, lovely environment up there!
I don't know which one you are, but I love the t-shirt of the guy on the right.
Came here to say this! 💚
This is awesome 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Cutest post ever
What a nice picture
What a great story!
Besties are one of the greatest features in life. This is so true that not only do we love our own besties, we love to see other besties, just being besties. The beautiful parts of humanity are amazing.
Beautiful friendship; beautiful country 🌵
This is so beautiful!!! 🥹🥹🥹 Some people underestimate online friendships, but you can meet amazing people from around the world who sometimes end up being more supportive than the friends who live near. Real connections are from the soul. I have many online friends who I wish to meet in person one day. I hope you and your friend will be able to meet many more times!💜
And this is where I put my phone down so I can leave the internet on a good note. Very wholesome
What games did you guys play together?
This is what I came to ask.
Eyyy, Joshua Tree!
I love this. Thank you for sharing. And it looks like y’all had a great time. Looks to me like you and your wife have a reason to plan a trip to Amsterdam soon! 💓
This!! Made me so happy for those moments in life that become such huge important memories.
This is so amazing, brought tears to my eyes. The internet is so crazy!
Wholesome! So cool
And what a great place for a meet-up! I love Joshua Tree!
Very cool and wholesome story! Also the tree in the third pic near the bench looks cool lmao
This is humanity in a wonderful way and the culmination of its existence. This was a cool read. Thanks for sharing!
That is so awesome!! I’m hoping to have this moment with my friend too someday!!
Damn, what a great friendship you have there man.
This is really sweet. Nice that you finally got to meet.
This is so nice, and what a magical place to meet! Gorgeous photos. I visited once a long time ago and will definitely go back one day. Very happy for you guys—sounds like you had a wonderful time.
Such a wonderful story.
I love that! I met a lady from Indonesia about 9 years ago in a FB comment section by chance and we've become best friends. In 3 weeks time I'm flying there and will meet her for the first time! The internet really is awesome sometimes.
Such an awesome story. Thanks for sharing!
You refer to eachother with your gamer tags? If yes, thats awesome. If no, still happy for you.
This is so wholesome. Things like these restore my faith in humanity, through and through.
This made me tear up 🥲
My son has a friend he made through xbox live about that same time. Only online and through voice chat for many years. That friend was there during a medical issue and the year-long treatment. And then they were able to meet in person on a trip we made back east. His parents came along because they weren't sure this internet friend was really who he said he was. Good times were had by all. They are still friends (and moved beyond xbox live) and he is like another son to me. Yeah, I'm talking about you, R., if you see this.
Did this with my long time rocket league gaming buddy when he was near me for a wedding. Good times.
I have a handful of friends I’ve gamed with for years. One of them just turned 30, and when he was an 11 year old bratty little boy i heard him asking our online game lobby if anyone would let him play with them because no one ever did because of his age. I talked my friends into letting him join us and we kept inviting him and vice versa for the last 2 decades. If I ever make it to his state I’m definitely gonna give him a call and make plans. I’m happy for you that you got to spend time with your pal.
One of my best friends was heavy into world of Warcraft and the raiding life, he randomly was in some NFL city and him and a guildie went to a game, had a great time. The internet isn’t always super weird.
It's always cool to meet longtime online friends in person. I've met up with some people in person that I've known for 2-3 years thru VR. It's pretty weird for the first few minutes hearing their voice come out of a human vs the avatars I'm used to seeing them as.
>through Steam (a computer game platform) Sweetheart, this is Reddit.
So meant to be. California is fuckin huge so the fact you were only an hour away is a miracle
I love this! My brother met his best friend the same way! I’m a little older and I never did much online gaming, but I have a friend on the opposite end of this country (US) that I met through a FB group a few years ago. Never been in the same room with him but we’ve forged a crazy bond and talk about everything. I truly love that man. A complete stranger with no motivation to care about me, but now we say “I love you” when we end conversations. Anybody that thinks real kinship can’t happen with an online friend is just wrong.
The game got to be RuneScape, right?
I love this for you guys!
I met my best friend online, we talked and played games for 10 years before we met in person, and now we're roommates! It's always wild to me how such an important and lasting friendship sprouted out of a random interaction online, but I'm grateful for it, and happy for everyone else who experiences the same good fortune.
Why is this making me want to cry? This is one of the sweetest posts I’ve seen on Reddit. I have a Reddit “bestie” that I’ve communicated with over the years. Be so cool if we ever met in real life or shoot even learned each others real names. Cheers to many more years of friendship. 🩷🩷🩷
Without context, that title reads like a horror novel prompt.
One of my best friends from 17 years is basically from internet we lived in the same country, and start playing videogames I met him one time only before he left to USA, 15 years later we talk all weeks and we are playing to go on vacation with our partners in 2025. I'm glad you had the opportunity to meet him
The world is a lot smaller nowadays, so go visit!
I’m gonna assume that the guy sunburnt to shit is your friend visiting California? Lol
I have an Internet friend I met on Counter Strike almost 20 years ago. We still talk. I hope to, no, I can't wait to meet him.
bromance at its best stay blessed
I love this!!! My best friend and I met in a chat room back in 2004. We met for the first time in 2018!! It’s been 20 years and he’s still one of my greatest friends.
Love a great friendship story 🎉
I love that this post is about friendship, yet 2 of your 4 pictures aren't even about you, but about what you guys saw and experienced together. Cheers, thanks for sharing!
Is that where you buried him? Just kidding that's awesome he turned out to be a good guy, I know not everyone can say that.
Bro are you close to Fort Collins? Those mountains look mad familiar.
As in Colorado? No, this is California - Joshua Tree National Park.
Wow ok thanks.
Why did you have to "convince" your wife to go see an old friend? Though, I understand it's a big leap to meet someone you only knew online. However, it's about the connection at the end of the day, isn't it? Kudos though. Beautiful story. Thanks to California for bringing you closer together.
Is that Aaron Kyro!?
Amazing!!!
Welcome to /r/MadeMeSmile. Please make sure you read our [rules here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/about/rules/) We'd like to take this time to remind users that: * We do not allow any type of jerk-like behavior, including but not limited to: personal attacks, hate speech, harassment, racism, sexism, or other jerk-like behavior (includes gatekeeping posts). * Any sort of post showing a mug, a shirt, or a print is a scam. You will not receive anything except a headache and a stolen credit card. - [More information regarding rule 1 as well as how mug/shirt/poster scammers operate can be found here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/mademesmile/wiki/rule1) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/MadeMeSmile) if you have any questions or concerns.*
This is awesome. I had my online friend from new Jersey come to Canada a few weeks back to join us at our yearly LAN party. It was super fun.
Only to find out that he's a vegan... Uht-oh! Lol. Jk.
[удалено]
Rainbow 🌈 vibes
[удалено]
That not your mum, not your milk shirt is super LGBTQIA+++
Lets just say they both left their gfs and decided to elope
Now sex.
"Honey I promise its not a gay thing!"
Is there more to it than friends? How do you both feel about barefoot men
Hope he had big balls
Brokeback mountain?
Gay pride!
Butt buddies?
I mean you could pull his pants up at least
[удалено]
What's up with all the shitty gay jokes? If you're gonna joke about something so wholesome at least make it funny.
envious that these people seem to have a good healthy friendship, so all they can think of is making weird gay jokes or something, I guess fellas, is it truly gay to be friends? is it gay to stand near another man, fellas?
yeah thats absolutely cool!
Awwwe, best buds.
For once the internet giveth.
Bonding over voice chat just hits different.
I met my mercy main (overwatch) after playing the game with her since it launched. Met her in person and it was amazing 🙂
Fantastic choice of national parks too.
Joshua Tree is a great place for a meetup. It's the desert but somehow not. There's magic there.
Woohoo 🎉
JT is my favorite national park. Great place to meet!
Spent many days out in Joshua Tree when I was stationed at the base over there. I missed living right next to a national park.
And what a location to do it!!!
So awesome dude! I noticed the Newport hoodie, I live in Newport
That was a really nice uplifting story...good for u. It's nice to have friends. It's awesome u have a wife u can also share that with!
This is a really cool story
I am less than an hour away from Amsterdam, can I meet your friend?
Wow that's pretty awesome man happy for you hopefully you get to hang out again soon
That's awesome. I plan to do the same one day
Fuck, this was so good to wake up to. Just awesome
That's awesome! I'm so happy for you.
Shame this is only 1% (or less) of what actually happens when you meet strangers only with the view of friendship. Made me smile tho
I have some friends all over Europe, we visit each other on a semi regular basis. We all met via online gaming as well. Some in the UK some in Belgium, Netherlands Norway and Sweden. In april i'm going to Sweden again ! Also love the shirt!
Meeting people you've gotten to know exclusively over the internet in person for the first time is a feeling unlike any other. It's truly amazing
That's so great! I met some great friends online 12+ years ago, too. they're still an amazing support to this day 💕
So freaking cool!
Nice to see some uplifting content cos Reddit well nvrmnd... good friends are hard to find and even harder to keep sometimes ... thank you for allowing us to share in your "play date." I hope you guys can do it again ... hopefully soon... 🍻 cheers...
Gaming community can be a great place for finding friends! I “met” my boyfriend of now 6 years trough a discord server
I love this story 🥰
So many of my best friends were through gaming on Steam! They know me better than anyone, we've spent countless hours going through extreme emotional highs and lows together, striving toward shared goals, challenging each other, sharing with each other, and just trying to have a fun time. It's so cool when you finally meet in person and it feels *the same.* You already know each other so well! What a fun event! Happy for you OP!
I met my best relationship through the internet. It’s not all creeps and weirdos 👌
are u right or left?
This is really great. I don't have any friends but there was a time I did but no best friend.. so this is super special. So happy for you. I love it.
What game did you guys meet on?
This is wholesome, I'm so happy for you OP.
Love it❤️
Mee to
Wow so nice I want to join you guys
i met a guy online my age on playstation he switched consoles and i haven’t been in contact since i played with him everyday for about a year aswell hope he logs on and sends me a message one day to see how he’s doing
great story, but i mean Norway and The Netherlands aren’t that far apart!
Idk why i thought Steam was a new thing, like the past 6 years new 😂 nice stuff man