He may have popularity but I promise you it doesn’t spread far in high school I was a bit of an outcast and was constantly bullied by a girl who I knew and is a crack whore now and so it was hard to make friends because of popularity issues some pepole will look past and not care what they say because you are and always will be you and I was liked in that crowd

However most of my friends were actually a grade above me I met a few later in middle school and when I got into the high school part of my school nothing changed really and I built those bonds met new pepole in that grade and about 25% of that class atleast knew me and they’re my main friend group today even

TLDR: moral of the story if you can’t make friends in your area make a new area you will find pepole to make friends with regardless of your current mass opinion from 5-10 pepole