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NYC Officials Thinking They Invented Bins, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
NYC Officials Thinking They Invented Bins, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
A guy's favorite movie has generated a lot of debate online.
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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 Republican peddling anti-vax theories, heated discourse about "Miami Vice" and New York City's "Trash Revolution."


Thursday

Lauren Boebert

The character: Lauren Boebert, "Beetlejuice" fan, anti-vax Republican

The plot: Years removed from the first pandemic wave and subsequent vaccinations, Lauren Boebert, a Republican representative from Colorado in Congress, is still on the anti-vax train — and she's probably one of the few people left on board.


The repercussion: I guess it's reassuring to know so many people don't like Boebert, and immediately came to all of the logical conclusions: no, that's not how vaccines work; he's just old; Trump also got vaccinated; and evidence has shown that vaccines are overwhelmingly safe.

This is a bad faith argument that goes against science and common sense — and millions have died due to COVID, so not only is this not funny, but it promotes anti-vax conspiracies that contribute to these deaths.


Jared Russo



Friday

Chaédria LaBouvier

The character: Chaédria LaBouvier, Guggenheim curator, "Miami Vice" hater

The plot: On July 4, film critic Brandon Streussnig posted a clip of Michael Mann's "Miami Vice" with an excited caption. "Gf asked me to show her my favorite movie tonight," he wrote. "Probably the most important step in the relationship. No going back now."

Streussnig has a big online following, and his post was viewed millions of times and got a few thousand likes, bookmarks and quotes on X. While a lot of it was friendly (and unfriendly) banter about Michael Mann movies, one quoted comment snowballed into a meme when curator and writer Chaédria LaBouvier responded to Streussnig with a rather blunt comment.

"Straight men live on a completely different planet than the rest of us, WHOT is this," LaBouvier wrote. While Streussnig did respond directly to the comment, and was slightly rude too, LaBouvier's post was picked apart by hundreds of netizens.


The repercussion: A lot of the chatter and back-and-forth between LaBouvier and everyone else was mean-spirited, while others who came across the conversation decided to steer it in different directions — like continuing to heap praise on Mann and "Miami Vice," and turning the phrase "gf asked me to show her my favorite movie tonight" into a meme itself. The discourse also put "Miami Vice" back in certain cinemas in Los Angeles and New York.


Adwait Patil


Monday

NYC Mayor & City Sanitation Department

The character(s): Mayor Eric Adams, the NYC Department of Sanitation

The plot: One of the most popular cities in the world, the Big Apple is home to iconic yellow taxis, great pizza, Broadway and — as far as Mayor Eric Adams is concerned — revolutionary garbage storage solutions. Earlier this week, Adams and NYC’s Department of Sanitation announced the introduction of the city’s first-ever official trash can, meaning residents now have a place to put their rubbish bags that isn’t just out on the street.

The unveiling of the so-called “Trash Revolution” was comically over the top, with Adams’s placing of a symbolic trash bag into the bin soundtracked by Jay Z and Alicia Keys's "Empire State of Mind" — as though other cities, states and countries haven't been using this very simple contraption for decades.

The repercussion: X users the world over pointed out that wheelie bins, as they're known in the UK, have been around for many, many years. Sorry, Mayor Adams, but slapping some NYC branding on the thing doesn't make it revolutionary.

People also remarked at the fact that New Yorkers have simply been chucking their refuse out on the curb all this time. Truly wild stuff.


Darcy Jimenez


Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which featured The Daily Mail robots thinking that "SNL" is real life, an extremely weird, tone-deaf and insulting proposal and a new internet celebrity with an unique catchphrase.


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