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An Alarmingly Emotional Taylor Swift Fan, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
An Alarmingly Emotional Taylor Swift Fan, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Including the Kellogg's CEO who thinks cash-strapped people should eat cereal for dinner.
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Every day, somebody says or does something that earns them the scorn of the internet. Here at Digg, as part of our mission to curate what the internet is talking about right now, we rounded up the main characters on Twitter from this past week and held them accountable for their actions.



This week, we've got a very questionable parenting technique, a millionaire cereal brand CEO trying to profit from poverty, a writer who hates her commie ex and a Swiftie with a pretty extreme response to hearing their favorite song.


Monday

Autumn Christian

The character: Autumn Christan, science writer, commie hater

The plot: There's been a lot of alleged Mormon propaganda being shared online, and writer Autumn Christian had enough after seeing a critique on one such video.

Christian went in long on communists, how she dated one and how it was one of the worst experiences of her life. "I once dated a communist. He was a joyless person who felt profound guilt in anything that wasn't liberating the working class," she wrote, before adding eight more lines to her statement.

The repercussion: Despite Musk owning X, the platform hasn't gone as completely anti-communist as one would expect. A lot of people came out and chided Christian for her take, mostly because it really added nothing to the conversation.


Adwait Patil


Wednesday

@BlackTzedek and whoever this dad is

The character: @BlackTzedek, X user, and the unidentified father in this video

The plot: On Wednesday, an X user named @BlackTzedek shared a video an as yet unidentified dad posted of his toddler, who is sat on a mini tricycle on top of a coffee table. Instead of removing the child from the dangerous situation, like any sensible parent would do, the dad tells him he's going to fall, and then lets him — and watches as his head bumps the wall.

Defending the guy in the video, @BlackTzedek wrote: "All of the women in the comments who said that he's a bad father only brings into question just how many folks were raised without one."

"He warned. He assessed. He let him learn."


The repercussion: People wasted no time expressing their disapproval at this approach to parenting. Sure, it's good to teach children the consequences of their actions — but at the expense of their safety? If that kid had hit their head a little harder on that wall after falling, things could have looked very different.

Plus, he's a toddler, and toddlers can't yet grasp cause and effect like we can — it doesn't take a super parent to understand that.


Darcy Jimenez




Wednesday

Gary Pilnick

The character: Kellogg's CEO Gary Pilnick

The plot: Kellogg's millionaire CEO Gary Pilnick went on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" for an interview last week. It seemed harmless enough at first, until he dropped the following comments and lit the internet ablaze with his unchecked greed and lust for more poor people to prey on.


The repercussion: Nothing like going on TV for an interview and just slipping in corporate talking points, directly advertising your product like it's a cure-all for poverty to anyone who will listen and give you money. Hawking Frosted Mini Wheats to people dealing with job loss, rising inflation and stagnated wages is certainly not a good look, and Pilnick received heavy backlash for implying that cereal is in any way a suitable dinner.

@pinkwigcorporategirlie Rich CEO of Kellogg’s telling the poor and all of the laid off workers to eat cereal for dinner while standing infront of mansion. This is what conpanies think of you. ##cereal##Kellogg##laidoff##inflation##economy ♬ original sound - PinkWigCorporategirlie
@5149jamesli

Kellogg’s CEO says we should all eat cereal for dinner to save money 🤡

♬ News / Truth Investigation / Investigation / Suspicion / Consideration(1013150) - A.TARUI

Jared Russo


Sunday

@maddie.braps

The character: @maddie.braps, Swiftie, over-sharer

The plot: On the weekend, TikTok user and Taylor Swift fan @maddie.braps shared a clip of herself and her friends sitting outside one of Swift's concerts in Sydney. The video shows Maddie's very emotional reaction to hearing the start of the song "Exile," which she says "saved her life." And when I say emotional, I mean she bursts into tears and howls like a loved one has just died — while her friends, who try to comfort her, exchange bewildered looks.

@maddie.braps Skip to 0:24 seconds… I’m actually not well #exile #erastourtaylorswift #erastour #erastouraustralia #taylorswift ♬ original sound - mads

The repercussion: There's nothing wrong with getting emotional over music — we've all got that one song that can make us cry if played at the right time — but for many, Maddie's reaction was pretty extreme. A lot of people were also puzzled by her decision to film and post the very personal moment, while others expressed sympathy for the friends.


Darcy Jimenez



Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which included the NYPD's dance team, a woman with a Netflix drama-worthy marriage story and a breakdancing father who's not beating the deadbeat dad allegations.

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