Friendship Ended With
Where it came from
A 2015 Facebook post by a Pakistani man named Asif Raza Rana. It's a photo collage announcing "Friendship ended with MUDASIR, now SALMAN is my best friend," with Mudasir's face crossed out in red.
A clunky homemade collage announces, in all caps, that the poster's friendship with one guy is over and a new guy is now the best friend. The dumped friend gets a big red X over his face. The new best friend gets a heart. You swap the names for whatever you've upgraded from and to: "Friendship ended with TWITTER, now BLUESKY is my best friend." And it was all real — a guy posting actual friendship drama, dead serious, in collage form.
You use it to declare you've replaced one thing with another, usually pettily. It works for anything: programming languages, streaming services, exes, breakfast cereals. The crossed-out face is doing the heavy lifting — it's the visual equivalent of dramatically blocking someone. It spread out of Pakistani Facebook into everyone's feeds around 2017 and became the go-to way to announce a swap.
The actual story has the best ending of any meme: Mudasir and Salman patched things up. Asif posted a sequel collage about a month later announcing the friendship was back on, with both faces un-crossed. The template itself is more of a deep cut than a daily driver now, but the phrasing — "friendship ended with X" — outlived the image and people still type it without the collage at all.
Search interest, over time
↳ data courtesy of google trends
