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Obama Sharing His Favorite Movies Of 2023, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
Obama Sharing His Favorite Movies Of 2023, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Rounding off the year with a list that features both Barack Obama and Nikki Haley. Whew.
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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, the Main Characters include Simone Biles's husband (whoever that is), Obama, a cruel Christmas stunt and Nikki Haley ignoring the role of slavery in the Civil War.



Sunday

AlaskanTzar

The character: AlaskanTzar, X user, ignorant person

The plot: In this rather offensive Main Character entry, X user AlaskanTzar suggested that the Sentinelese people, an indigenous population living voluntarily in isolation, require Western "enlightenment." (They also state with some confidence that there will be Mars colonies and transhuman cyborgs in the future, but we don't have time to get into all that.)


The repercussion: The response to this post was, pretty much universally, "stop trying to colonize everything."


Darcy Jimenez



Tuesday

@MissRiRi33

The character: @MissRiRi33, strict aunt, bad at risk assessment

The plot: Over the holiday period, X user @MissRiRi33 posted a video showing her niece receiving a literal brick as a present because she had, allegedly, been naughty. "The child was too stunned to speak," MissRiRi33 wrote.

missriri33 tweet

It's no surprise that the post is now deleted, because people on the app soon made very clear how bad a gift — and life lesson — that was.


The repercussion: X users pointed out how the child had been wronged, receiving punitive action in the first place, and how calm she was while registering the whole ordeal. I hope this kid got a real gift after all of this — or, if not, that the brick miraculously found its way onto that kid's parents' car.


Adwait Patil


Thursday

Simone Biles's husband

The character: Jonathan Owens, Simone Biles's husband, safety for the Green Bay Packers (yes, I had to Google his position)

The plot: This week in Men Telling On Themselves, the husband of the most decorated gymnast of all time embarrassed himself trying to explain how their relationship blossomed. In an interview with The Pivot, the couple shared how they met (on Raya) and whether they recognized each other (Owens said he didn't who Biles was), and Owens shared that he generally thinks "men are the catches" in relationships.


The repercussion: There's a lot to unpack here. I'll skip the drama over how Biles pursued him (you don't become the best in your sport without going after what you want, so more power to her) and also the bit about how he "didn’t know" who she was (ok, sure, Jan). Saying he's "the catch" was enough to send me and much of the internet. To her credit, Simone seems unbothered by all this foolishness and remains perfectly content to be the cameraman's favorite fan to find in the crowd at Lambeau Field this season.


Annie Johnson


Thursday

Nikki Haley

The character: Nikki Haley, Republican presidential candidate, bad history student

The plot: Haley, the former South Carolina governor who's running for the Republican presidential nomination, didn't say the word "slavery" when she was asked what caused the American Civil War at a campaign event in New Hampshire.

It's likely that Haley's refusal to talk about slavery will end high-up on the list of gaffes at the end of the political calendar. She did try and save herself, but after that, what's the point?


The repercussion: You know you've messed up when the sitting 81-year-old president quotes you.


Adwait Patil


Wednesday

Barack Obama

The character: Barack Obama, former US president, list maker, movie producer

The plot: Back when he was in office, former President Obama started a a tradition of various year-end lists of his favorite books and albums. He's kept up that tradition over all these years, and this year's "best movies" list is out! Surely this won't result in any memery...


The repercussion: Oh wait, he named the movies his production company was directly involved in making as his favorites. And put "Oppenheimer," a film about dropping bombs on innocent people, on the list, too.


Jared Russo



Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which featured another company using AI to harness a dead person's voice, a racist comment from a sports personality and people hating on DINKs.

And if you want to recap all the biggest Main Characters of the year, check out our 2023 roundup here.


[Image credit: @artan_ayan]

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