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A Mother Who Doesn't Believe In Teaching Her Kids, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
A Mother Who Doesn't Believe In Teaching Her Kids, And More Of This Week's 'One Main Character'
Including some very cringey videos of billionaires dancing.
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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 another AI tool churning out trash, Taylor Swift and Elon Musk's weird dancing and a TikToker who doesn't teach her children anything.


Saturday

Luma AI's 'Dream Machine'

The character: Luma AI, artificial intelligence company, nightmare producer

The plot: Just a few days ago, Luma AI released "Dream Machine," a tool designed to make short videos based on text or still image input.


The repercussion: Naturally, people immediately began feeding the Dream Machine memes, and the output has made us feel more than a little bit nauseated.

In spite of these obviously atrocious results, AI services like this are still being widely acclaimed on social media for their "potential," and AI companies are just about the only thing investors care about these days. It becomes clearer every single day that we are in the least interesting dystopia ever imagined.


Grant Brunner



Friday and Saturday

Elon Musk & Taylor Swift

The character: Elon Musk and Taylor Swift, private jet fliers, dancers, clowns

The plot: Two clips recently spread online that have caught people's attention. Both involve an extremely wealthy person doing a very silly dance, but they had very different reactions. We've clumped them together, but don't get it twisted: Taylor Swift dancing is cute, and a little bit humorous, while Elon Musk jumping up and down on stage is seen as revolting, embarrassing and cringe.


The repercussion: Taylor Swift is on tour, she's entertaining the masses, and I feel no ill will towards her beyond the private jet stuff. She can dance however she wants; you go girl, have at it. They all can't be winning dance moves when you're playing hundreds of concert around the world.

Elon Musk showing up to a shareholders meeting dancing like that, though? It made people sick to their stomachs. The general sentiment around Musk taking over the site formerly known as Twitter and turning it into a bot-filled X already made people hate him. This clip isn't helping his likeability one bit. Divorced dad energy keeps coming up for a reason.


Jared Russo


Tuesday

Mami Onami

The characters: Mami Onami, spiritual teacher, mother, internet personality, free schooler

The plot: On Tuesday, someone on X shared a video by TikTok user Mami Onami, in which she shares how she "free schools" her children instead of enrolling them in a school or providing a traditional education.

"We don't teach our children anything," she says. "Everything that they learn is in response to either their interest or their questions."

In summary, Onami's children are not actively taught a curriculum or basic skills like reading and writing — rather, they are given answers to questions they ask, and are otherwise left to learn (or not learn) at their own pace, depending on what interests them.

At one point in the video, the mother shows a notepad belonging to her 6-year-old, which contains the semi-legible writing of words like "egg" and "jar."

"This is him doing this by himself," she says.


The repercussion: People responding to the video were horrified to see children being deprived of an education, and were concerned by the level of writing ability displayed by her 6-year-old — who, by that age, should be able to construct full sentences and read them aloud. Many found the video sad, while a few went as far as to describe the situation as abusive.


Darcy Jimenez



Read the previous edition of our One Main Character column, which featured an organization honoring someone who definitely doesn't deserve it, a newly married "tech wifey" insulting her husband and someone trying to invent scenarios in which transphobia would be okay.

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