Taylor Lorenz

Yeah.

Look at this long thread.

Jesus.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Again, this is a guy that randomly went viral, like not to hold him to, you know.

There's a lot of people out there that are just kind of dumb, random asshole type people.

You know what I mean?

Like he's not committing crimes here.

You know, it's interesting to kind of consider intent of the main character.

I wouldn't say that like Bean Dad and Shrimp Dad wanted to go viral, certainly not in the ways that they ended up going viral.

I think like 90% of main characters happen, probably 99% of people happen, like main characterization happens without consent.

And...

and i think it's like i mean did did people want to share something funny like sure you know um west on caleb and couch guy and and these other figures and for people that don't know west on caleb was basically a guy who dated a bunch of women that used tick tock who decided that he was shitty now west on caleb himself was not even on the internet he exists as this like nebulous guy although he did allegedly i think get fired for his job because of the sort of like cancellation that he endured he worked at west on

um and then the couch guy was just this guy who like was in a viral video and like didn't greet his girlfriend nicely enough in the video and so people just sort of like parasocially decided they should break up to me like it the point is more I feel like when we talk about main character we're talking more about like the reaction and like how the like internet writ large like treats individual figures that are thrust into our feeds for whatever reason

And like they're thrust into our feeds for different reasons.

Sometimes they're just a woman that did something, you know, controversial.

Sometimes they're a guy that thought that he found shrimp.

Sometimes it's a guy that appears in a video that didn't, you know, whatever.

But like, it's more about like the evolution of like, how do we treat this person?