>>48315677>for whatever reason.Not for whatever reason, but for the explicit desire of the ones forming it to disallow others from joining easily.
If there is no gatekeeping it's not a clique, it's just a regular group
>If you're talking and hanging out regularly, online and offline, and you aren't doing the same for everyone else, you are a cliqueNot by any interpretation of the word in the english language or any meaningful translation of it.