Four WhatsApp groups. Seven people. One year. A complete map of how a friend circle forms, fractures, filters — and finds itself.
Each group was born from the friction of the last. Hover nodes to explore. Solid lines = intentional creation. Dashed = toxic influence or merge.
Click any card to expand the full story of why it was created and how it ended.
Each column = one month. Hover for exact numbers. Notice the Chill Out explosion in Apr 2025, the Aug collapse, and CIH's steady rising heartbeat.
Bar length = message count across all groups. Segments show which group each count belongs to. Hover for details.
Node size = total messages. Line thickness = shared group count. Drag to rearrange. Core seven are white — the others orbit in the dark.
Deleted messages, birthday timing, reply sequences, spotted sightings — patterns that build a picture of the unsaid.
Each group collapse was a natural selection event. The six who survived all four transitions — Krushna, Prasad, Yash, Shravani, Apurva, Rutuja — are the actual friend group. Everyone else was circumstantial.
The only member whose message count grew across every group: 305 → 1,209 → 307 → 983. He is the structural spine. Without him, none of these groups would exist or survive.
78 messages in Chill Out — the least of anyone — yet split the entire group. His impact wasn't in what he said, but in what Nikita stopped saying. The quietest disruptions do the most damage.
28 deleted messages in CIH — more than anyone else. Each one is a thought he had and changed his mind about. The most revealing thing about a person isn't what they say — it's what they almost said.
Sachit was the only person to wish Rutuja happy birthday on Mar 6 2025 — alone, at 9:24 PM, before anyone else noticed. He knew the date. Rutuja replied with exactly two smileys. Neither mentioned it again.
554 messages in Chill Out → 81 in Aaltu Faltu → 0 in CIH. That trajectory, mapped against Mishra's arrival, tells the whole story — without a single explicit conversation about it in any chat.