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Joe Russo's Cringeworthy Swipe At Martin Scorsese, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
Joe Russo's Cringeworthy Swipe At Martin Scorsese, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Featuring an inevitably horrible Halloween costume idea.
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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 Joe Russo coming for Scorsese, a horrible Halloween costume idea, an insensitive take on Matthew Perry's death and a controversial bagel order.



Sunday

Higgins802

The character: Higgins802, X user, someone who can't read the room

The plot: Last week, beloved actor Matthew Perry — best known for his role as Chandler in "Friends" — passed away at the age of 54. The site formerly known as Twitter was flooded with heartfelt tributes and messages in the wake of his death, but, as always, there were some unnecessarily bad takes too.

One user, Higgins802, noted that "Friends" has "aged horribly," and urged people to "be careful" about what they share in relation to Perry's passing. "That said," he added tactlessly, "it's a tragedy to lose Matthew Perry."



The repercussion: It's true that "Friends" has jokes that are problematic in hindsight, but no one's encouraging anybody to make homophobic or otherwise offensive comments in Perry's memory — and to write about Perry as though he's an afterthought in a post about his own death reads, intentionally or not, as plain insensitive.



Darcy Jimenez



Friday

Taylor Offer

The character: Taylor Offer, LA resident in New York, bagel scooper

The plot: Offer starts off his TikTok critique of a NY bagel store by saying that he's from Los Angeles, so that immediately raises the hackles of any New Yorker in earshot. He then proceeds to complain that the employee won't scoop out the delicious interior of the bagel he had ordered.

This bagel contrarian's TikTok bio says that he's the founder and CEO of a clothing company. Hopefully, his taste in fashion is better than his taste in bagels.


@tayloroffer

Facts

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The repercussion: There was an overwhelming blowback, both on the original TikTok and on X (formerly Twitter). Anyone within 300 miles of New York immediately began sighing heavily and rolling their eyes at the west coaster's bagel take. If he wants more cream cheese, just pile it on — no need to remove perfectly good bagel here.



Grant Brunner


Friday

@Andrew__Boley

The character: Andrew Boley, bad idea haver

The plot: Last week, before Halloween, X user Andrew Boley shared a photo of Mollie and Ernest Burkhart in Scorsese's new movie "Killers of the Flower Moon," writing: "If I was dating someone I would do this as a couple's costume."



The repercussion: If you don't know what the film's about, it tells the true story of Mollie, a Native American woman from the Osage Nation, whose relatives are murdered by her husband Ernest and his uncle in a plot to inherit the family's oil money.

The movie provides just one snapshot of the centuries-long abuse and exploitation that Native Americans continue to endure at the hands of white people, and those responding to Andrew's post were astonished that he would consider, or joke about, dressing up as the two figures.

Also, in case it's not clear: unless you're Native American, don't dress up as a Native American person.


Darcy Jimenez


Saturday

Joe Russo

The character: writer and director Joe Russo

The plot: Joe Russo has been a Main Character before, and for some reason continues to say things that piss a lot of people off. (I should clarify now that while my last name is also Russo, I am not related to him — so feel free to dunk on him for his awful quotes and bad takes.)

Last week, the "Marvel" director made a swipe at Martin Scorsese by posting the below video, in which he mocks Scorsese's accomplishments by referencing his own box office success.



The repercussion: Nobody comes for Martin Scorsese and makes it out alive. Marty is one of the best filmmakers of all time and has never sold his soul to any studio or corporate entity. For some reason, there's a long standing public debate/conversation about Marvel movies, art vs. commerce and it's been dragging on and on and on for way too long. Enough. Joe Russo's non-MCU movies are trash, nobody likes them and he needs to get over it.



Jared Russo



Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which included congressman George Santos being his usual self, celebs getting confused about war, Gordon Ramsay being annoying and people defending pig-like creatures against the golfing elite.

Comments

  1. Jeff Ferguson 1 year ago

    Let me assure you that scoping the insides out of a bagel is not a “California thing.” We have the second largest population of Jewish people in the country (just after New York), do you not think we know how to order and eat a bagel properly?

  2. DMCDKNF 1 year ago

    I wonder if Taylor Offer is even really from California. So many people move to California as adults (LA specifically) then represent as Californians. Not that we don't have our own serious cringe issues, but I constantly see other states complaining about "Californians" who only just recently moved here from wherever. Especially when they only live here a couple of years and then move to another state and that state complains that Californians are destroying their housing markets, etc... I've got to think that NYC finds itself in the same situation. But, also, who scoops out their bagels?!

  3. John Doe 1 year ago

    Unless Taylor Offer's company makes cheap gray t-shirts, I'm inclined to not believe that he owns a clothing company.

    Sounds like a typical LA made up thing: "Oh, I own a clothing company."

    Reality, he buys overstock basics from China and sells in on Amazon.

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