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.
"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.