The Florida Project’s Bria Vinaite Explains the Art of Ghosting

I started ghosting about three years ago.

Sometimes I ghost in real life.

It happens mostly on dates when

I'm just not feeling the vibe.

I say I'm going to the bathroom or

I have an emergency, and I just don't come back.

There's so many people who portray themselves online to be

this one type of person and then you meet them,

and you're like, very slight catfish, you know and like,

someone shows up and it's them, but like,

all their pictures are taken at a angle,

or they look like their crusty long-lost twin.

I had this guy I was really good friends with.

He was awesome.

We hung out all the time.

We were good friends that flirted,

so let's go out, let's have fun, let's turn up.

And I was having a really good time, he's so cool.

We hung out with a bunch

of his friends, everything was fine.

And then we get to the club.

The second we got there, it went from cool hanging-out vibes

into let me buy these bottles, let me breathe

on top of this girl I brought.

It hit me, he's not buying them for me,

because guess who wasn't impressed?

And guess who was?

Boy bye.

You literally are buying them for your friends

cause your friends are the ones all like excited.

Oh my God, she's definitely going home with him tonight.

Like, definitely not.

The decision making wasn't very clever.

I'm not your girlfriend.

What do you think this is?

So in my head, the rational decision was to get outta there.

All his friends are texting me, like Bria,

where are you, what's going on?

And of course I'm texting back, like I'm at the table,

like what's wrong with you guys, are you crazy?

I'm literally sitting there staring at you.

Sorry sir, it's not my fault

you didn't see me sitting at the table.

But I'm in a cab, I'm on my way home.

So I get home, I get in bed, I roll a blunt.

Hanging out by yourself with a blunt

versus a boy like, you know?

That's how I ghosted in real life, and you could do it too.

You're not feeling the vibe?

Girl go home, smoke a blunt.

Walk out.