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Someone Who Thinks 'Platonic Flirting' Is A Thing, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
Someone Who Thinks 'Platonic Flirting' Is A Thing, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
An X user has a questionable explanation for his friends' bizarre behavior during a hangout.
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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 weird hangout with friends, a new type of flirting and another debate about kids in "adult" spaces.


Tuesday

Matt Nisselle

The character: Matt Nisselle, X user, member of a weird friend group

The plot: On the last day of 2024, someone called Matt took to X to share the events of a recent hangout with friends.

At the end of the bizarre list, Matt implied that coronavirus was to blame, writing: "Yeah, SARS is mild and it's over."


The repercussion: People tried to get their heads around why Matt's friends were sh-tting, crying and falling over — and what coronavirus has to do with it.


Darcy Jimenez


Saturday

Lio

The character: Lio, poster, relationship policer

The plot: In the final week of last year, X user Lio posted a take about dating. "Platonic flirting while being in a relationship is literally cheating," he wrote. Of the numerous masked accounts online that post engagement bait for clicks, it appears that Lio's take wasn't exactly drawn up with that in mind.

He did end up posting a few follow-up tweets that made it clear he was referring to behavior that makes partners feel "uncomfortable," but the damage was already done.


The repercussion: It was only a matter of time before netizens decided to define the boundaries of said platonic flirting.


Adwait Patil


Saturday

Ron Wright

The character: Ron Wright, philanthropist, asker of questions

The plot: This X account, which seems to be equal parts engagement bait and sincere attempts to boost a family member's crowdfunding campaign, stumbled upon a particularly sore issue for many social media users: children in adult-only spaces.


The repercussion: Nothing in this post indicates that it involves a specific real-life scenario, but people online got very mad anyway. Obviously, it's rude to disregard the ground rules of a wedding, but we wish that "don't fall for engagement bait" was similarly obvious to everyone who still hangs out on X.


Grant Brunner


Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which featured a bad take on Japanese culture, a guy who hates his imaginary wife and a tweet that's disappointed Jonas Brothers fans.


[Image credit: Toa Heftiba]

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