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A Guy Shaming DoorDash Users, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
A Guy Shaming DoorDash Users, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Featuring some of the worst AI-generated music you'll ever hear.
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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 movie director's unpopular take on politics, a musician taking on streaming services with another app, some truly abysmal AI-generated music and a guy who thinks habitual DoorDash users should be ashamed of themselves.


Friday

Alex Garland

The character: Alex Garland, writer and director of the upcoming "Civil War," fan of idealogical arguments, Brit abroad

The plot: While conducting interviews for his new film "Civil War" on its promotional tour, writer-director Alex Garland gave a quote on the divided state of our nation and the political throughlines he decided to tell in the story. "Left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state. That's all. They're not right or wrong, but we've made it into 'good and bad,' a moral issue, and that's f—king idiotic," he wrote.


The repercussion: People weren't really fans of what Garland had to say about the current state of America, his views on politics or the framing of this movie. Some said his comments were "boring," and others thought they're incredibly naive.

Still, critics think the movie is really good, so who cares what the author's intent was, as long as the art is interesting! Right?


Jared Russo



Wednesday

James Blake

The character: James Blake, musician, tall guy, reinventing the subscription model

The plot: A few weeks ago, Blake, an English musician, decided to create an alternative for artists in the streaming era. The streaming business, which isn't lucrative at all for anyone but the studio and streaming executives, needed disruption, so Blake decided to step in and disrupt it.

But, after all the fanfare, it turns out Blake's grand plan was really just another subscription model — not something we haven't seen before.


The repercussion: The fact that Blake seemed honest, talking about the streaming payouts candidly, during the lead-up to this launch seems to indicate that this wasn't an NFT-esque cash grab, and perhaps was an earnest attempt. But a lot of people pointed out that that wasn't enough, that the service was similar to other existing platforms like Patreon and questioned how it actually aimed to make things more equitable for artists.


Adwait Patil


Tuesday

Aravind Srinivas

The character: @AravSrinivas, Perplexity AI CEO, bad taste haver

The plot: Aravind Srinivas, head of an AI company, is out here loudly proclaiming on X that AI-generated music from Suno is more appealing to him than actual music on Spotify. He recently shared a snippet of the music he's made with this system, and it is some of the worst garbage we have ever heard. It's abysmal and embarrassing.

(It's still not too late to delete that post, Aravind.)


The repercussion: The guy even says in his initial post that "Skeptics will say it's a pump post," so it's no surprise that people immediately smell something fishy about this AI business man going so hard over total dog water. It's almost like he has a vested interest in convincing people that AI-generated garbage is actually good. Almost...


Grant Brunner


Friday

@elaifresh

The character: Elai, X user, opposed to frivolous DoorDash orders

The plot: This isn't the first time DoorDash discourse has taken over X. But unlike last time — when someone complained about their order not being brought right to their door — this person is arguing that maybe, just maybe, we're all relying on food delivery services a little too much.

Last week, X user Elai posted about how often he was seeing people ordering breakfast on DoorDash. "This is insane right?" he wrote. "Unless you're disastrously hung over with no food in the house...?"

Elai clarified his stance in a subsequent post: he thinks people should be allowed to use DoorDash whenever they want, but he also thinks they should feel bad about it.


The repercussion: Elai's replies were peppered with the odd person arguing that some people, for example those with disabilities or mental health issues, have a genuine need for food delivery services, and a few told Elai to mind his own business — but, for the most part, people seemed to agree that we've taken the "get food right to your door, whenever you want it" thing a little too far.


Darcy Jimenez



Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, featuring a lazy attempt at provoking Muslims, someone trashing dog moms and yet another moronic take from Ben Shapiro.

Comments

  1. John Doe 1 month ago

    Doordash is how broke people keep themselves broke.

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