Bullying is not a character-building exercise. If someone keeps targeting, humiliating, threatening or excluding you, getting help is not weakness and you do not have to prove you can handle it alone.
Watching someone you care about get bullied can make you angry enough to want to fix the whole thing immediately. The most useful support is usually safer, steadier and less dramatic than revenge.
A group chat can go from funny to mean in about four messages. Screens make it easy to forget there is still a person on the other side, and screenshots make the damage much harder to contain.
Having a group is not the same as feeling like you belong. If you spend most of your time with friends feeling nervous, mocked, replaceable or small, the group itself may be part of the problem.
