[vineyardmike]

It’s real. Part of it is teens being judgy because teenagers do that. her bubbles are green because she’s poor and her parents can’t afford an iphone etc.

But also there is a real experience difference between iMessages and SMS and especially mixed group chats. Social people -even adults- who have lots of group chats via default messaging inadvertently punish android users for using SMS and that worse experience is represented in green. It’s just a symbol for that worse experience.

In fact, it’s getting worse not better. I have every messaging app imaginable on my iPhone (because it’s just an app why not). If I group chat mixed iPhone and android - I get the expected bad experience. But a lot of android users have now set up Signal to be their SMS app. So my iPhone will mix SMS iMessage going out, only for an android user to mix SMS signal messages coming back. So now the conversation is smeared across three apps and ruined.

Hence why I just install every app. So i can increase the odds of finding an alternative common ground.

PS. Everyone blames the android guy not the iPhone guy. “Stop being poor” or whatever. People are cruel.