main character
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main character (plural main characters)
- (Internet slang, idiomatic) A person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter).
- 2020, Paul Farhi, "How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020", The Washington Post, 28 December 2020 (image caption):
- With his Jill Biden essay, Joseph Epstein became Twitter’s main character this month.
- 2021 January 5, Dani Di Placido, “The Ballad Of ‘Bean Dad’ Shows The Cruel, Petty Side Of Twitter”, in Forbes:
- Unless you’re in the business of receiving hate clicks for profit, you never want to be the “main character” of Twitter.
- 2022 July 14, Delia Cai, “How Elon Musk Became the Internet’s New Main Character”, in Vanity Fair:
- And while Trump, at least, now faces a reckoning over his most consequential tweets via the January 6 hearings, one final way to understand Elon Musk as our new main character is to consider the internet that has incentivized the rise of both men.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:main character.
- 2020, Paul Farhi, "How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020", The Washington Post, 28 December 2020 (image caption):
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see main, character.