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An Adult Swiftie Who Loves Her 74-Year-Old Dad's Work Discounts, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

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An Adult Swiftie Who Loves Her 74-Year-Old Dad's Work Discounts, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Another week, another British politician gets roasted.
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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 an adult Swiftie, a person who yearns for the past and a British politician who's bad at posting.


Wednesday

The Cooking Lady

The character: @wolffdew, "Cooking Lady," weird opinion-haver

The plot: After sharing a slightly offputting video from a vintage fashion TikToker featuring them filming public reactions with a camera on a selfie stick, this person went on to decry current attire trends, and praised this old-timey aesthetic. And, with some additional scrolling through her profile, it’s clear that the clothes from that time period aren’t the only thing she wants back.


@brendanmurrayy Reaction to vintage style in york with @Brooke_vintage 🖤 #vintagemenswear #vintage #vintagewomen #vintagefashion #publicreaction #reaction #york ♬ You Make Me Feel So Young - Frank Sinatra

The repercussion: There’s nothing inherently wrong with enjoying 1950s fashion trends, but we always get the heebie-jeebies from people who overly romanticize it. The rest of the internet similarly got weird vibes all around, and made it known.


Grant Brunner


Friday

Raquel Lynn

The character: Raquel Lyn, Swiftie, discount and employment lover

The plot: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour finally came to an end, which meant that all the hard working people who put it all together, behind-the-scenes and elsewhere, will finally get to take a break. One of those workers however may not. Swift fan Lynn posted about how her dad's Hilton discounts, where he apparently does airport rides, and got her discounts during the tour. And, now that the tour was over, he checked in whether he could pull a plug on his gig. "What did I do to deserve him?" Lynn posted.


The repercussion: One can only imagine the ire that was directed after learning about a 74-year-old father's part-time gig, and how its benefits helped his daughter. Fans were delighted, and asked if they could tag in for him, while others had a hard time coming to terms with it all.


Adwait Patil


Monday

Lee Anderson

The character: Lee Anderson, UK politician, living in the past

The plot: On the weekend, X user @Jesii_ca_M lamented the “periods, pregnancy and menopause” that women the world over have had to put up with since the beginning of humankind. “What do men have to deal with?” she asked.

Her post received a number of responses, but few were as ridiculous as the one shared by Lee Anderson — member of British right-wing political party Reform UK — who chimed in with the utterly bizarre counter: “Try the Battle of The Somme.”


The repercussion: People were quick to point out that the Battle of the Somme took place in 1916, and Anderson wasn’t there — hardly the best example of the hardships the average man has to endure.


Darcy Jimenez


Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which featured a very Freudian tweet, a basketball star sucking up to Musk and some unhinged reactions to a woman's PhD.

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