We understand having to cover some people every now and again when times are tough, but everybody has that one friend who ALWAYS asks for money or asks to be paid for and it turns out they’re “brokefishing” you!
Refinery 29 actually did a deep-dive on the new trend in friendships and found that brokefishing is described as “the act of positioning oneself as needing financial help when that isn’t necessarily the case.”
There are usually two kinds of people that brokefish:
- Those who are a little too good at budgeting, to the extent that they let their friends who aren’t great with money cover them.
- Those who are reckless with their money and rely on their friends to bail them out.
