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It at least gives you an opportunity to get your foot in the door so next time it's a genuine invitation.

if you joined their whatsapp group out of self-invite and they begrudgingly obliged, then you will see all their invites and still be self-inviting yourself to their other events unless they personally asked you

Gotcha, I'm completely oblivious to Whatsapp.

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