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A Columnist With A Bizarre Take On Boobs, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
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.
Each day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it
— maple cocaine (@maplecocaine) January 3, 2019
This week, we've got a bad take on phones in movie theaters, a questionable theory about falling birth rates and someone claiming that big-breasted blonde women are going extinct.
Friday
@VivaLaVegaaaa
The character: VivaLaVegaaaa, someone who enjoys using phones in a movie theater
The plot: X user @VivaLaVegaaaa wrote that "you're a weak spirited loser" if people going on their phones during a movie bothers you — and people on the platform really united in their disapproval of the take. Just a guilt-free bashing that saw people band together against a common enemy: stupid people with god awful hot takes and incorrect information.
For decades, the cinema was largely a social event, particularly in other countries! It even partially shaped certain genres like giallos. As long as it isn’t over the top, do whatever the hell you want man. Tired of people saying they can’t go to the movies anymore bc of it.
— V (@VivaLaVegaaaa) March 1, 2024
The repercussion: So not only is this guy just flat-out wrong, this is the sort of anarchy that no one approves of. There are rules and a social contract that we all sign when we go into a store, on an airplane or into a movie theater.
Sit there and watch the movie you paid to go see! Don't bother others and start yelling or throwing crap around, or be on your bright ass phone when the theater is supposed to be dark! This isn't rocket science, this is just common sense and common decency.
this is a shit take
— John Squires 🎃 (@FreddyInSpace) March 2, 2024
I’ve been around way more decades than you have and no, nobody did any of that. There have always been assholes now and then but unless it was Rocky Horror or a bad midnight horror flick, you shut up and watched the fucking movie. Just like you should today.
— Matt Keil (@mkeil) March 2, 2024
Remind me never to go to any movies you do cause damn. I could never.
— Pamela E. (@rightofmidnight) March 2, 2024
Such a bad take, its not difficult to be respectful to others. If tou cant stay off your phone for 2 hours you’re a child.
— Tysi 🦇 (@tysi_Bat97) March 2, 2024
Why not just turn the lights on too, people can get some work done on their laptops
— Crab (@Summersaltcloud) March 2, 2024
Pretty impressive in this political climate to have an all-time bad take like this
— ShaneSaw M̷a̷s̷s̷a̷c̷r̷e (@FinalDude78) March 2, 2024
wrong. and movie theater etiquette was always a thing. https://t.co/fIIs83Wb1R pic.twitter.com/E4OT5jkEki
— dr. olympia kiriakou (@thescrewballgrl) March 2, 2024
Stay home. Just stay in your fucking house.
— DrewMcWeeny (@DrewMcWeeny) March 2, 2024
You are wrong in every way. It was never normal to "talk and yell and throw shit" and just saying it doesn't make it true. https://t.co/goPpUzcaFu
Jared Russo
Tuesday
@gbrl_dick
The character: @gbrl_dick, "cottagecore tech-adjacent young Robert Moses" X user with bad takes
The plot: Gabriel here has a hot take about pop culture and birth rates, and decided to throw in a Jacques Lacan reference to truly illustrate the pure, uncut pseudo-intellectual nonsense happening in their post (and on X day in and day out). People who are the most concerned about birth rates sure seem to have some weird hang ups about masculinity and femininity. Maybe there's an old-timey hack psychoanalyst we could consult about this.
the current pop culture male archetype is the murder twink and the female archetype is lacanian super predator and people wonder why the birth rate is going to zero pic.twitter.com/ry31eumJDb
— Gabriel (@gbrl_dick) March 5, 2024
The repercussion: The internet wasn't having any of this culture war-adjacent BS, and quickly noted some very obvious reasons why people might not be all that interested in having kids right now.
Also, Gabriel is a blue check on X and also seems to think that Robert Moses is someone that you'd want associated with your name. There needn't be any additional punishment applied.
I’m pretty sure it’s the wage stagnation, not a couple of celebs
— Joshua Weaver (@we4v3r) March 6, 2024
yeah this is the first time in history that wiry pretty boy or buxom blonde have been hot looks
— Safer•Haywood (@SaferHaywood) March 6, 2024
y’all get on this app everyday and say ANYTHING
— Kinza Tariq (@Kinnzayyy) March 6, 2024
https://t.co/W9j0SE8qoM pic.twitter.com/X66UkyS7sd
— Hispanic Shaun King (@okimstillhungry) March 6, 2024
pic.twitter.com/pBEkD7XQ01 https://t.co/zvX5CD90vB
— William Goodman (@goodmanw) March 6, 2024
Every time a man tweets like this the birth rate goes down another percent btw https://t.co/GgWy2h2Wby
— Swolecialist (@BlackLanterrn) March 6, 2024
Sometimes I think i spend too much time inside and online then I read shit like this and realize I actually have a very vibrant life full of friendship happiness and human connection https://t.co/KE8wxCh63V
— Max !! (@UncleChuzz) March 6, 2024
Yeah, right, I'm sure the low birth rate is due to pop culture, and not the fact more and more people can barely make a living wage on their own. https://t.co/SCa9muaPSi
— CerberusXt (@CerberusXt) March 7, 2024
Grant Brunner
Wednesday
Bridget Phetasy
The character: Bridget Phetasy, columnist, weird about boobs
The plot: Everyone loves actress Sydney Sweeney right now, and with that attention has come, predictably, lots of creepy comments about her body. As with most gross comments online, the weirdest Sydney Sweeney takes have come from random, often anonymous, internet users — that is, until now.
Bridget Phetasy, a columnist for British conservative news magazine The Spectator, recently penned an article titled "Boobs are back! Thank you, Sydney Sweeney."
An X post shared by The Spectator included the following excerpt from the piece: "For anyone under the age of 25, they've likely never seen it in their lifetime — as the giggling blonde with an amazing rack has been stamped out of existence, a creature shamed to the brink of extinction."
'For anyone under the age of 25, they’ve likely never seen it in their lifetime – as the giggling blonde with an amazing rack has been stamped out of existence, a creature shamed to the brink of extinction.'
— The Spectator (@spectator) March 6, 2024
✍️ Bridget Phetasy https://t.co/H5Fqwlq8ey
The repercussion: There's a lot to unpack here: calling Sydney Sweeney a "creature," saying blonde women with great boobs have effectively been canceled, claiming that people aged under 25 have never seen such a person. How are we living in a world where this is not satire?
Anyway, the internet responded to it like any normal person would.
what the fuck is happening https://t.co/9eGaeHRfSh
— lady eva (of misrule) (@_glorianas) March 6, 2024
are you people okay
— death angel (@angel_0f_deathx) March 7, 2024
social media editor: [looking grimly at the EIC, pointing towards the charts indicating sharply declining traffic month over month]
— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) March 7, 2024
EIC: [nodding solemnly in response] release the take https://t.co/ZiAuxJffif
https://t.co/KODghIY0E1 pic.twitter.com/m25Xbnqacv
— alex (@alexsoupertramp) March 7, 2024
someone got paid to write “the giggling blonde with an amazing rack has been stamped out of existence” https://t.co/dSGKznzcv3
— Jane Altoids (@staticbluebat) March 6, 2024
Find god https://t.co/CnTbrRsEVl pic.twitter.com/ds4PhT5KLc
— Lucy Watson (@Lucywwatson) March 7, 2024
boobs have never gone away is everything ok at home 😭💀💀💀💀💀💀
— ladidai 📲 gems in link in bio (@ladidaix) March 7, 2024
“Gen z is trying to cancel large breasted blond white women”
— nad🕊️ (@naddster1) March 7, 2024
absolutely. this was a real problem and i’m glad the next generation won’t be made to suffer the complete dearth of stacked blondes https://t.co/9sJi621T18
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) March 6, 2024
Conservatives be normal about a woman: Challenge level impossible
— Jäger von Heinrich Kramer (@jaegervonkramer) March 7, 2024
it's true there's been no way to see boobs on the internet for 25 years
— Thembo (@OnlyAWorldAway) March 7, 2024
https://t.co/9oZXdanRbO pic.twitter.com/GRQ4OLVNE9
— jimothy burglary (@JimothyBurg1ary) March 7, 2024
Darcy Jimenez
Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, featuring 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.
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