Think you know everything about Friends? Think Rachel and Ross were totally meant to be?
Think again, because this passionate Twitter rant argues that Rachel and Joey should have ended up together all along. User @kaneandgriffin, whose name is Claire, got tired of people hating on the Rachel/Joey storyline, so she gifted the Twitterverse a 100-tweet-long thread defending the pairing.
Buckle up for a long journey into Friends. These are the highlights.
First, Claire argues in defense of Joey as a genuine friend.
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895002785271267328
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895003831251030016
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895006112994295808
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895006934721470464
Next, she demonstrates that Joey actually developed as a character and love interest for Rachel in ways that Ross never did.
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895008772342534144
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895009021958029312
And guess who supported Rachel’s career all along?
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895012864368324608
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895014820394573824
As for Ross…
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895015427910189056
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895017522130374656
It makes so much sense that Rachel and Joey did what the best couples do—they built each other up.
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895027829653487616
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895029058865577984
Rachel and Ross, not so much.
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895030025862262784
The conclusion?
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895032931701346304
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895033140258918400
https://twitter.com/kaneandgriffin/status/895035035236974592
Claire told BuzzFeed she has shipped Rachel and Joey for a long time, and she was never happy with the way the series ended.
Apparently there are a lot of people who support her theory.
“I thought I was talking to about 10 people, then I finished the thread and had almost 800 new notifications. There are clearly a ton of stealth Rachel/Joey shippers out there!” Claire, the user behind the epic, told BuzzFeed.