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An Unhinged Bed Setup, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
An Unhinged Bed Setup, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Big week for people who don't read books or understand what fiction is.
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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 a Republican who didn't do the assigned reading, someone who thinks fictional sex is immoral and a surprisingly controversial bed setup.



Wednesday

Nancy Mace

The character: Nancy Mace, Republican member of the House of Representatives, not an active reader

The plot: After siding with Democrats and voting to oust former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, US Representative Nancy Mace wore a big, red letter A on her shirt. She told reporters: "I’m wearing the scarlet letter after the week I just had, being a woman up here, and being demonized for my vote and for my voice. I will do the right thing every single time, no matter the consequences."



The repercussion: The shirt is, of course, a reference to everyone's high school required reading "The Scarlet Letter," Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel about a woman who is forced to wear a red A for being an adulterer and having children out of wedlock.

Naturally, not understanding what the A stood for or why it was famous in the first place is why Mace is a Main Character this week. That, and being a politician more interested in herself than actually helping any one American with any of their problems. So, just like any other politician.



Jared Russo



Monday

This X user

The character: an anonymous X user who doesn't understand the concept of fiction

The plot: This week, @Swilua shared one of the wildest takes I've ever seen on the app formerly known as Twitter — and that's saying something. The screenshot shows someone — I don't know who, because the usernames have kindly been scribbled out — arguing that sex between two fictional characters is coercive because the writer is forcing them, and they "don't have agency."



The repercussion: I don't think I need to explain why this stance is utterly absurd, so let's just take a look at the responses.



Darcy Jimenez



Monday

This person's roommate

The character: Hazel, obscure poster, roommate observer, bed analyzer

The plot: X user hazel recently had a couple of new roommates move in, and shared the below rough drawing of one of their bedrooms.


bed window twitter


"Absolutely fascinating," hazel said of the roommate’s decision to have their pillows face the window, towards the hanging edge of the bed rather than against the wall.

For an obscure poster to get millions of engagements on such an innocuous post proved overwhelming — hazel later deactivated their account, saying "I think the things I don't like about twitter/being on twitter might outweigh the things I like about it."


The repercussion: Hazel’s masterful graphic depiction led to people asking more questions, drawing their own setups, airing out their insecurities and more.



Adwait Patil



Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which included an NBA player causing controversy, someone earnestly defending Dimes Square and a TikToker who believes most people don't have an inner voice.

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