I did. I got friendzoned by a fantastic little brunette called Laure who was in my class. We quickly became really close friends, and after weeks of hanging out together, I realized I loved her. So I asked her out (in the lamest possible way), to which she simply replied that she already got a boyfriend. I knew it of course, but I had to try. That was a bit sad, but I really enjoyed our friendship so I kept on seeing her and having fun with her. She was really super nice and not shitty about it (as in she never tried to take advantage of the situation like these people in the pictures the OP posted). I was the one with stupid hope.
When they finally broke up months later, nothing changed, I was still in the zone. It took her the rest of the year to realize that she was into me as well. We finally hooked up at a party and stayed together for two super nice years before we parted ways.
It's a super classic and boring story in retrospect but what's funny is that I never thought about it as being frinedzoned until I read this thread. And I never thought it was that big a deal. I still don't, actually.
