[joshmanders]

These people read some Onion like BuzzFeed article about a made up story along the lines of this and absolutely refuse to see how ridiculous it sounds and start spreading it, and others who have an axe to grind with Apple then feel validated by the idea of it and spread it themselves.

Literally nobody I know who has an iPhone truly cares what color the chat messages is... We do however notice the green message and jokingly go "oh an Android user eh?" and give a little shit for it, but nobody would ever actually ostracize someone from a group for being Android.

These people are delusional.

[Weebs]

I've been left out of the loop by people before because of it. It's not a big deal but it's annoying to have it come up all the time

[joshmanders]

I'm confused at how you get left out of the loop. Do they just not include you in group chats?

I have a group chat right now with my sister who is also iPhone and my mom who is Android, we all have zero issues in group chat.

Only thing that changed is the group chat goes from being iMessage blue bubbles to just all green chats due to the one Android user.

Everything else is the same. Well when my sister like reacts to our messages because she doesn't quite realize that it's not a group iMessage but just a group SMS then iMessage sends `<sister> liked "<message she liked>"` texts to the rest of us but shows the like reaction to her.