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DoorDash Delivery Discourse, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
DoorDash Delivery Discourse, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Welcoming you into 2024 with an abundance of terrible takes.
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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 unhinged MacBook purchasing, a sports personality telling on himself, a bad Ozempic take and more.



Sunday

@PBSgays

The character: @PBSgays, ghostee, not a great host

The plot: In what was one of the last Main Character tweets posted in 2023, X user @PBSgays told their followers about coming home to find that one of the friends their roommate had invited round was someone who had ghosted them (twice).

According to the post, they took great pleasure in kicking the guy out of their apartment, and holding the door open "while watching him get his stuff."


The repercussion: Responses to this one were mixed; some people backed @PBSgay's decision to make them leave, while others think it was an unnecessary move.


Darcy Jimenez


Monday

Jason Whitlock

The character: Jason Whitlock, TV personality, problematic figure in sports journalism

The plot: If you aren't familiar with Jason's work in either print or on ESPN and FS1, congrats: you dodged a bullet. He's an infamous talking head who has a long history of saying dumb, offensive and shocking things, and he's one of the best punching bags for sports fans and journalists. What did he reveal about himself this week? His highly-specific internet searches, of course.


The repercussion: Thus began the parade of people pointing out that the internet revolves around cookies, targeted ads and companies tracking what you're most likely to purchase. Awkward.


Jared Russo



Sunday

@Ermer

The character: Ermer, bad opinion-haver, heck-a wicked gross-o

The plot: Last week, an X user going by @PopCulture2000s posted a video of singer Christina Aguilera recently performing her 2002 hit song "Dirty." They praised her longevity, it was a normal, positive tweet and everybody was having a good time — until X user @itme_ermer decided to be gross about it.

Not only did they needlessly imply that Christina Aguilera looks good because of an alleged use of prescription diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic, they drag Lana (Del Ray, presumably) into their weird fantasy as well. Ick.


The repercussion: The reaction to the misogyny and body shaming was swift and loud. And while some of the responses had their own grossness with a homophobic twist, many other replies were rightfully dismissive of Ermer's extremely bad tweet.

Ermer has chosen to tweet through it, and reply to a surprising number of critics. This alone is a kind of prison.


Grant Brunner


Monday

Ayman Al-Abdullah

The character: Ayman Al-Abdullah, CEO, unhinged MacBook purchaser

The plot: While some of us were nursing hangovers or watching movies, X user and software company CEO Ayman Al-Abdullah welcomed in the New Year with this truly ridiculous bit of posting. In the below tweet, he claims that he buys a brand new MacBook at the beginning of every year, keeping nothing from his previous computer.

"If it makes me even one percent more efficient," he says, "it pays for itself in the first week."


The repercussion: It is, obviously, completely ridiculous to buy a brand new MacBook every single year, not to mention incredibly wasteful — and people were also skeptical of his claim that this bizarre practice makes him any more efficient.


Darcy Jimenez


Monday

Raven

The character: Raven, X user, displeased DoorDash customer

The plot: There's a good chance you've seen this post, or responses to it, on your timeline over the past few days, because it sparked a hell of a lot of discourse. X user @rah_ven shared a screenshot of a conversation in which her DoorDash delivery driver told her to "come get" her food from his car.

"Is DoorDash not delivery anymore or??" she wrote.



The repercussion: Lots of people in the replies were on Raven's side, agreeing that they'd be annoyed or would refuse to tip if a delivery person didn't bring the food to their door. Many others, however, argued that the platform, DoorDash, itself is to blame, for contributing to a gig economy in which workers have to complete as many orders as quickly as possible to earn anywhere remotely near a decent wage.

The debate then quickly evolved into one about ableism — some people argued that those with disabilities have the right to expect their food to come to their door, while others maintained that it's the responsibility of DoorDash and similar companies to make this possible for their overworked, underpaid delivery drivers.


Darcy Jimenez



Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which featured Simone Biles's husband (whoever that is), Obama, a cruel Christmas stunt and Nikki Haley ignoring the role of slavery in the Civil War.


[Image credit: Jon Tyson]

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