Who Wrote Bestfriends Shouldn'T Know What You Like?

Alright, quick and casual take: I couldn’t find a definitive, single author credited with the published work titled 'Bestfriends Shouldn't Know What You Like?'. That usually signals it’s a fanwork or a short posted on sites like Pixiv, Wattpad, AO3, or personal blogs where pen names and reposts can make attribution messy. If you already have a copy or a link, the original uploader’s name, the post date, and any translator notes are where the author credit lives.

Titles like 'Bestfriends Shouldn't Know What You Like?' tend to be used by multiple creators in different contexts—one-shot fic, chapter subtitle, or slice-of-life vignette—so seeing the same phrase in different places isn’t unusual. I get a kick out of sleuthing these things; sometimes the search leads to a tiny, lovely story by an up-and-coming creator, which is its own reward.

Odd thing — I dug around because that title kept nagging at me, and I couldn't pin down a single, widely recognized author for 'Bestfriends Shouldn't Know What You Like?'. What turned up instead was a scattering of instances: sometimes it appears as a short fanfiction title, other times as a chapter or one-shot posted on hobbyist platforms. That usually means it isn't a mainstream light novel or officially published book with an ISBN; it's the kind of catchy line somebody used for a web short or a doujin slice-of-life piece. I checked the kinds of places these things live most often: archive sites, Pixiv Novel posts, Wattpad, and small indie blogs tend to host one-off stories with titles like that.

If you want to trace the specific creator behind a particular copy of 'Bestfriends Shouldn't Know What You Like?', the fastest route is to look at the page where you found it: author name/pen name, upload date, any translator credit, and the post’s tags are gold. Sometimes the same title pops up multiple times because people translate fanworks or rehost them, so the true original author can be obscured; in those cases the original post or the earliest timestamp is the best clue. Metadata on image files or the file header of an ebook can also hold the real creator’s name if someone ripped it from a site. I’ve done this a bunch of times when hunting down obscure short stories or doujinshi scans.

One other thing to keep in mind is that tiny punctuation differences or spacing changes—'Bestfriends' vs 'Best Friends'—can split search results, so try variants when searching. It’s possible an author used the line as a chapter title inside a larger work, too, which would make the author someone else entirely. From what I saw, there isn’t a single canonical author attached to that exact phrasing in mainstream publishing databases. If I had to guess from patterns, it’s most likely a fan-penned piece or a title used in online shorts rather than a pro-published novel. Personally, I love how these little mystery titles send me down rabbit holes; tracking provenance becomes half the fun, even if the end result is “it’s by a hobbyist on [platform]” — still warms my heart to see creative corners of the internet buzzing with stuff like this.