In my experience as a teen growing up in LA, only women seem to care about the green bubbles. It's akin to not having a car or living on a friend's couch -- a sign you don't have the bare minimums taken care of. Most friend groups organized over iMessage group chats which are awful UX-wise for an Android user. Often we'd move onto Snapchat just because that one nerd begged us to.

Moving to Europe and meeting attractive, popular, and even wealthy kids who had Androids was surreal for me initially. On a tangent: Signal took off spectacularly among normies in LA after their dealers started pressuring them to use it. For instance, at UCLA it's the defaulted to group messaging app if a member of the group doesn't have an iPhone.