Humans naturally communicate needs. If we didn't have that impulse we wouldn't be where we are now. That said, tis possible to compliment people in an unsexualized platonic manner and then gauge their reaction.
Listen, if someone I knew paid me a genuine not-sliding-into-my-dms-motivated but actually sincere compliment and just moved on in the conversation without expecting anything back, I would immediately crush on them. In its own ironic way, being friendly simply for the sake of being prosocial is really attractive to a lot of people.
Humans naturally communicate needs. If we didn't have that impulse we wouldn't be where we are now. That said, tis possible to compliment people in an unsexualized platonic manner and then gauge their reaction.
"AHH YEAH BABY COMMUNICATE YOUR NEEDS TO ME IN A NON SEXUALIZED PLATONIC MANNER" :pingu-horny:
Listen, if someone I knew paid me a genuine not-sliding-into-my-dms-motivated but actually sincere compliment and just moved on in the conversation without expecting anything back, I would immediately crush on them. In its own ironic way, being friendly simply for the sake of being prosocial is really attractive to a lot of people.