I've known these guys for four to five years and I'm really close with them, but I really just feel as if my brother has stolen them all from me. A little bit of backstory, I'm currently 14 and a male. I met these guys when I was really young on Minecraft. We played all the time, we joked around, we'd build, even do some dumb role-plays sometimes. Everything was fun, but my older brother would get on sometimes. It was okay with me. He got to know a lot of my friends and they knew he was my brother. Flash forwards some years and we talk through Discord. My brother isn't in the Discord server, and forces me to let him in as he's older. He starts talking to them and lets them know that he's my brother, he hadn't been in the Discord server before. Before I know it, he's much closer to them than he was ever before. At some point I'm kicked from this group, the people I've known for 4-5 years kicked me because I was the "annoying little brother" apparently. One of my other friends invites me back, angry at the other friends for kicking me. After that, my relationship isn't the same with my other friends. My brother is way closer to them now than I ever was and tells me not to include myself with games and role-plays they all do because he simply doesn't want me there. I feel left out and abandoned by my own friends, the only time they even mention me in Discord is to ask where my brother is. I don't know what to do, but I don't want to tell my friends about how I feel either.
I feel as if my brother has stolen my online friends?
Dude. I'm only a little older than you but I can tell you right now those aren't your friends and your brother is being a douche.
Best advice? From experience? Keep playing games and find another group. You can and you will and they'll think you're cool. I've lost entire groups of friends plenty of times and I wish I could tell you stuff like this won't happen again but it probably will. You seem like a good guy. Keep your chin up. If you really want to keep these people as friends you gotta say something. They aren't mind readers but likely know they're hurting you. Share how ya feel and if they treat you like **** get out of there. They aren't worth fighting for and you didn't come this far to only come this far.
There are better people out there. You just gotta look. They're there. I CAN promise that.