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Gwyneth Paltrow's Deeply Unnecessary Nepo Baby Take, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
Gwyneth Paltrow's Deeply Unnecessary Nepo Baby Take, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Turns out rich, famous people still aren't done defending their nepo baby status.
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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 Twitter from this past week and held them accountable for their actions.



This week, we've got some unfortunate wording, a college grad with unrealistic expectations, a controversial home "improvement" and yet more nepo baby talk.



Wednesday

@Delta_ae

The character: Delta, the X account for "Halo" news and leaks

The plot: Hello, fellow gamers! "Halo Infinite" season five has launched, and with it comes a slew of new equipment, maps and modes for multiplayer. Let's see what the big new innovation is for the game!



Oh.


The repercussion: Yeah, it was a poor choice of words. The framing was not great — but cars do have rims on them, and sometimes they need to be serviced. Oh my god, okay, it is impossible to talk about this tweet without sounding dirty. Let's just move onto the reactions.



Jared Russo



Monday

Detroit's Builder

The character: Detroit's Builder, home improvement specialist, vibe killer

The plot: If there's one innocuous thing that gets people riled up on the internet, it's home improvement content. From remodeling jobs to weird floorplans, everyone has an opinion and believes their taste is superior.

Detroit's Builder, a home improvement specialist, shared a bathroom remodeling job, in which an old-school, green-tinged bathroom was sanitized and redeveloped into a stark white one.



Naturally, people didn't like the change.


The repercussion: The collective online mob was in agreement that the redesign wasn't great, and that the newer, white version lacked character.



Adwait Patil



Tuesday

@fitnesswithalison

The character: @fitnesswithalison, college grad, service worker, person with unrealistic expectations

The plot: On Tuesday, someone on X shared a post by TikTok user and business marketing graduate @fitnesswithalison, in which she complains about reportedly earning more from her serving job than she would in the marketing roles available to her.

She goes on to say it's unfair that she can't get the jobs she wants — those offering $150,000 to $200,000 salaries — because she doesn't have enough experience, arguing that her degree should count as her experience for the role.



The repercussion: Responses mostly ranged from calling Alison naive and unwilling to work to suggesting that she must be financially well-off, given the car she's driving. Overall, there wasn't a lot of sympathy for her in the comments and quote-tweets, but some people did see her point.



Darcy Jimenez



Wednesday

Gwyneth Paltrow

The character: Gwyneth Paltrow, nepo baby, entrepreneur, hater

The plot: Paltrow — who doled out some surprisingly nifty advice recently — this week reignited the age-old nepo baby discourse once again, calling it an "ugly moniker" in a recent interview.


Paltrow compared the pop culture nepo babies to the children of doctors, saying, "Nobody rips on a kid who's like, 'I want to be a doctor like my dad and granddad.'"

Now, why would you do that? Especially when you're rich, successful and what not. The nepo baby discourse might be a dead-end trend now, but that didn't stop people from piling on Pepper Potts once again.


The repercussion: Maybe it was the stray shot at medical professionals that got people agitated enough to dunk on her this time.


Adwait Patil



Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which included a Republican who didn't do the assigned reading, someone who thinks fictional sex is immoral and a surprisingly controversial bed setup.

Comments

  1. Steven 6 months ago

    Both the before and after bathrooms are objectively terrible.

    1. Michael Messmann 6 months ago

      I think you objectively misunderstand the definition of "objectively."

  2. Johnny Andreu 6 months ago

    I'm still hoping for the day of clarity for Gwyneth when she realizes how incredibly out of touch she is with the rest of humanity and has a complete and utterly devastating existential breakdown. I fear that day will never actually come.

  3. John Doe 6 months ago

    The best comments about nepo babies always come from nepo babies.

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