For many innocent victims worldwide, the friend zone is no joke. In fact, it’s a quite serious epidemic driving hundreds of men and women into depression every day.

Yet, we’ve all been there so it’s up to us to come together and figure out how to deal with this agonizing relationship.

Leave it to Youtube sensation Swoozie to use his understanding and advice to show us how to know you’re in the friend zone and more importantly, how to avoid and even escape its grasp.

This humorous yet incredibly universal short video fills us in on how hilariously awkward being in the friend zone can be and why it’s just too damn silly to let it ruin your life.