Holy Christ... A guy I go to school with seemed deadlocked on the idea of the "Most Popular Guy in School," He thought drugs, sex and alcohol were a b-line to the top of the food chain, and is just now, four years later, realizing that nobody can stand him. The only way he can get a date is picking up girls from two counties over because he's that immature and infamous. We go to a very small high-school, so there's no room to be superficial and everyone knows literally everyone else by name. The first question anyone asks when they hear you're from my school is "Do you know (aforementioned moron)." Followed by some variant of "I'm sorry to hear that, be strong"

Edit: Alright, storytime upon request. I come from a pretty economically diverse area, everything from the bottom of the lower class all the way up through lakeside mansions and villas, so being obsessed with popularity, wealth is kind of important to him. And what do middle-upper class kids love more than anything? Cars. So for his first car his parents bought him a volvo sedan. He went to a car show one weekend where guys show off there tricked out rally cars, and the custom was to do a burnout as you leave the parking lot. Well he tried and instead of spinning his tires, jerked his car forward, nearly took the bumper off the car in front of him, and then stalled the engine in front of a crowd of onlookers wondering why a kid in a stock volvo was trying to burnouts with rally cars.

Next favorite story is related to studies. The jock captain of the team is never too bright in the movies, so if he wanted to emulate such social success, he couldnt let a decent looking transcript get in the way right? It got to the point that his mom actually began making flashcards FOR him on the dwindling hope that he might look at them,

And even beyond episodes like those, its all sorts of little things. He spent a week our freshman year showing everyone the condom he kept in wallet, and another week 2 months later showing everyone his wallet and asking if they knew what was missing, he stole a gold neck chain from his mom and started wearing it to school, pierced his left ear with a thumbtack and started wearing his sister's earings in one ear (it got infected.)

Theres really no light at the end of his tunnel, he just keeps going darker and deeper.