Ryan Broderick

But I do think that these two stories are useful because it kind of creates the two ways you can become a main character from that point forward.

Justine Sack was also the first ever, what we can find, recorded firing for a post.

For being a main character.

Were you the one that was organizing the like, do you use Twitter meetups at IHOP?

Okay.

Yeah.

I went to one of those.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What's really interesting is if you go back before Justine Sacco, before Gamergate, the stuff that were making people the main characters, we would now probably just call memes.

Okay.

The closest thing we could find to like someone like a main character was actually from your book, which was Liz Eswin.

Who had an Instagram account, basically.

She was posting the New York City Instagram account at the time, basically.

But before that, you know, in the two thousands, uh, you, you, you had like star Wars kid, you had Antoine Dodson, you had these people who be came internet figures, but like, it wasn't the same thing.

No, I mean, some of them have... Like, Star Wars Kid, I guess, he was pretty mad about it.

There's, like, weird ethics around auto-tuning Antoine Dodson, basically talking about, like, a man breaking into people's homes and raping them.

But, like... And there's a whole other thread here of, like, in the 2000s, posting, like, viral clips of, like, particularly Black people on local news was, like, a whole thing.

And you get the start of world star hip-hop becoming kind of big in the early 2010s, and that kind of goes in one direction.

And then you have...