i need to get it off my chest.
so i started genshin in december of 2020 , i was a very hardcore player for the first 4-5 months and then i played genshin atleast 2 hrs a day for like till 2022,with my one friend who recommended me genshin( lets call him s ) , it was just us for 2 yrs and then in the fall of 2023 we recommended genshin to a close friend of ours,( lets call him r ) i taught him mostyly everything in genshin, it was good in the beginning , we never ever flexed our characters and builds infront of him then we both quit genshin to take a break from it we both had completed half of sumeru story quest and our R who was a new player kept playing genshin, he kept pulling meta characters and actually i don't know why he started getting jealous of me cuz i was doing way better academically, he got so jealous that he started bad mouthing me infront of s but as he might or might not no that s told me everything that he told about me and so when i stopped playing genshin , he thought it as a opportunity and started giving me spoilers about genshin main story , i absolutely hated it and tried to make my distance from him but he managed to spoil everything for me and then when he got better he started flexing his new meta characters, weapons to us , he litreally has several times told me directly that his account his better than me and as i didn't wanna talk to him much i'd say yea man yours is better , s has better build characters than me so he didn't say anything to him but once he got some more better he started even telling him the same, then he just fuckin always sends me his build in chats and says that he's better. man he ruined genshin for me, i loved the genshin lore but he ruined everything ,
my advice - don't recommend your favourite games, movies or series to that cringy , toxic friend of yours.