this is why this community is getting worst day by day as the daily invented token team dont know damn about what they are getting in to but raise fund and cast away with it in an easy way , that your friend is a bad one who just told you that anyone can create their own token .
Maybe it's a exaggerated statement of their friends to attract them into cryptocurrency. The hard work and idea needed before that is not stated. This is how some shitcoins developed, they plan create without the proper study and analysis. They are more in the idea of having crowdsourcing without planning how it can last long.