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An Influencer Refusing To Evacuate Before The Hurricane, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
An Influencer Refusing To Evacuate Before The Hurricane, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Including a new dad who feels entitled to sex just weeks after the birth of his child.
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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 X from this past week and held them accountable for their actions.



This week, we've got a unique approach to a kid's picky eating, a wildly unsupportive new father, some questionable "A-listers" and Caroline Calloway insisting on remaining in a hurricane's path.


Thursday

Taylor Peden and Jen Munkvold

The character: Taylor Peden and Jen Munkvold, photography duo, parents of a picky eater, objects of derision

The plot: In a photo-heavy article recently published in the New York Times Magazine, parents Peden and Munkvold complain about their young child's personal distaste for eggs, take him to France and then have professional chefs try to please him with different egg-based dishes.

Presumably, this is at least partially funded by the Times, but this wildly unrelatable experience reinforces some deeply unpleasant stereotypes about journalistic outlets and writers in general.


The repercussion: As a surprise to nobody at all, the internet's main response to this kind of self-indulgent fluff is just a bunch of gagging sounds. Nobody wants to read about a picky 6-year-old boy eating better than they do.


Grant Brunner



Monday

Scott Tyler

The character: Scott Tyler, new dad, unsupportive partner, man-baby

The plot: The whole point of our Main Character column is, obviously, to share the most mind-boggling and divisive takes posted online each week. But every now and then, someone shares a view so shameful, so indefensible, that the backlash forces them to not only delete their tweet, but their online presence altogether — and this is one such example.

On Monday, in response to a tweet about the prevalence of male infidelity in the period after their partner has given birth, X user @ScottJTyler89 complained about the lack of sex he was having with his wife just eight weeks after she'd had their child.

"I can see why men cheat at this time," he wrote. "My wife completely ignored my existence for the first few weeks and we had to have arguments to get her to even acknowledge me, not to mention be intimate."

"That's the biggest challenge. Baby is easy."


The repercussion: It's hard to believe Tyler expected anything besides derision after posting something so pathetic, unreasonable and devoid of empathy for the mother of his child.

The majority of those responding to the post were appalled that Tyler believed he was entitled to intimacy from his wife so soon after she'd given birth, let alone felt justified throwing a tantrum and posting online about not getting it. Besides the fact that most doctors recommend waiting around six weeks after childbirth to have sex, it's literally a couple of months — you'll live.

Others latched onto Tyler's infuriating assertion that having a newborn baby was "easy." Yes, that's probably because your wife is devoting all her time to caring for the child — the very thing you're whining about her doing.


Darcy Jimenez


Thursday

The Hollywood Reporter

The character: The Hollywood Reporter, media magazine, A-list christener

The plot: The Hollywood Reporter is known for many things, like their annual roundtables and A-lister rankings of actors and creatives. This year the publication produced its first creators' issue, featuring a list of the 50 most influential online personalities that included show hosts, TikTokers and YouTubers.

Lauding influencers on the platforms they influence sounds like a bad idea because it is. It invites only chaos.


The repercussion: Because the internet can get extremely compartmentalized at times, it was natural that there were haters at each and every level: folks mad that their favorites were left out, people unable to recognize anyone involved and general mockery of the list.


Adwait Patil


Tuesday

Caroline Calloway

The character: Caroline Calloway, influencer, author, alleged scammer

The plot: Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida on Wednesday night, and has since wreaked devastation across a huge stretch of the state, with at least 16 people dead and millions left without power as of Friday, October 11.

On October 8, before the hurricane hit, controversial internet personality Caroline Calloway wrote on Instagram that she would not be evacuating her Florida home as residents had been ordered to.

"So if you've been following Hurricane Milton, um, I'm going to die!" she said in a since-deleted Instagram story. "It's supposed to make landfall in the Sarasota-Bradenton area. I'm in Sarasota, I live on the water, it's zone A, mandatory evacuation."

(Note regarding the above tweet: Calloway said in an interview with New York Magazine that while she does live in a Sarasota apartment building on the water, she's on the third floor, not the first.)


The repercussion: Responses to Calloway's posts were mixed. Some people were in disbelief that she would voluntarily remain in the path of a life-threatening hurricane, and that she was using the situation to promote her new book. Others figured she was lying about not evacuating (given her previous unreliability). Some, though, were just concerned about her pet cat.

(In case you're wondering, Calloway is fine.)


Darcy Jimenez


Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which featured a creepy old guy trying very hard to play the part, a musician who wants to revolutionize gig schedules, one of the UK's worst cultural exports and the man who ruined the internet for a generation.


[Image credit: Caroline Calloway]

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