A mid bestie is someone who holds the best-friend title but consistently delivers a disappointing level of friendship — they're there for the fun parts, vanish for the hard parts, offer generic advice, and somehow always make your problems about themselves eventually.
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A mid mate is a friend who occupies that awkward middle tier — not close enough to be truly relied on, not distant enough to simply be an acquaintance. They're present at the social events, they'll double-tap your posts, they'll make plans that rarely actually happen, and they'll be perfectly pleasant without ever being genuinely there for you when things get hard. The mid mate relationship is most notable for its persistent mediocrity; it never really deepens but never quite fades out either, hovering in a perpetual meh state. Most people have several mid mates and quietly accept them as a background feature of their social landscape.
A romantic partner who's technically fine — shows up, says the right things most of the time, and isn't actively harmful — but inspires zero butterflies and maybe a small existential crisis at 2 AM. The mid bae is the relationship equivalent of a 6/10 movie you'll forget by the weekend: not bad enough to leave, not good enough to brag about. Often discovered during a conversation where you try to describe them to a friend and realize every sentence starts with 'well, they're not, like, awful...'
A low key bestie is the person you're closer to than most people realize — the friendship doesn't perform loudly on social media, you're not inseparable in public, but behind the scenes they know everything and they've been there for all the real stuff. Low key besties often fly under the friend-group radar because the closeness lives in private messages, late-night calls, and a mutual understanding that doesn't need external validation. When something actually happens — good or bad — the low key bestie is the first person you reach for, even if nobody else would have predicted that.
A mid bestie is someone who holds the best-friend title but consistently delivers a disappointing level of friendship — they're there for the fun parts, vanish for the hard parts, offer generic advice, and somehow always make your problems about themselves eventually. Not toxic enough to cut off, not good enough to fully rely on. The mid bestie occupies a frustrating middle ground where you know they care but you've also stopped telling them things that actually matter because the response will be underwhelming. Most people have had at least one mid bestie and recognize the pattern in retrospect.
She really is a mid bestie — supportive in theory, MIA during the actual crisis.
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