First: when I say bullies I mean all people who participate, including the ones who side with the "main bullies".
Everything they have told us about this is bluepill and cope.
Starting for the bullying stereotype (someone who has bad grades and ends having a shitty job as an adult or even a criminal).
The truth is that the vast majority of people involved in this behavior are completely normal people who often even get a good career and a successful life as an adult.
We are also told that bullshit of "muh innocent kid angels" and that these people have "low self steem" and a "trauma" because they suffer at home, completely lie, the majority have a complete normal life at home and normal parents, they just do it for pure sadism. Explanation of them suffering a trauma is an adult subconscious way to justify their behavior against outcasts.
People who tell us this bullshit of "they mature, you were just kids, just forget about it" are people who never got bullied or treated like shit in anyway or even they were bullies themselves.
These people never "change" or "mature" , no one ever asked me for forgiveness after all what they did to me.
They don't consider what they are doing is even morally wrong, they see you as a pathetic ugly loser who deserves it, they remember it with a smile when they grow and replicate this behavior at job (in a more covered way obviously).
The saddest true is that usually the majority of people side with the bullies and join to the "fun", they don't feel any sorry for you as coper adults told you, the reason they don't help you is not because of fearing the bully, it's because they think it's a right thing to bully you.
Remember, bullies are not just some future criminals, they are the average people, the normies.
They will have a better job than you, couples and they will be in general considered "good persons" when they grow up, and there is no way you can do anything about it because your looks are already putting you in a disadvantage where people subconsciously hate you.
In general I think all the lies normies tell about this topic is pure condescendy from people who have never experience anything of that, and who also try to justificarte or minimize bully actions, that's why the stereotype of bully as a victim of his parents exists.