Taylor Lorenz

They don't really have that anymore.

So now it's just like...

What are you going to do?

You're going to fly to LA and what?

Yell at me?

No, you're not.

You don't leave your house.

And I think like, I mean, I've had them try to do things like this to me before or like call the employee.

And people are like, this is a prank call.

You know, like show me some evidence that you're serious or get out of here.

To me, when we talk about like the main character of the internet one day or of a platform even, it's kind of like the person that discourse is centralized on.

It's the person that everyone is talking about, that everything that day kind of has to be related to, the person everybody's joking about.

It's just kind of like the central figure of, you know, in the discussion taking place on XYZ platform.

Yes, I am.

I think we need to distinguish some nuance here because while anybody can theoretically become a main character, we also have coordinated harassment, smear campaigns against women.

And I think making a woman a main character is a way to enact those smear campaigns.

That's why I've been the main character so much.

It's often because some bad faith actor is intent on smearing me for an article I wrote or something I did or whatever.

They don't like me for whatever reason.

Tucker Carlson, who knows?