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90 People Living Their Best Main Character Lives While Everyone Around Them Pays The Price For It
We all have that one friend who believes they’re the center of everyone else’s universe. They expect you to drop everything and travel to their destination wedding, or stop enjoying your weekend to attend their fancy birthday party. Or they forget everything you ever tell them… Well, you get the idea.
The point is, we all have that one friend who maybe shouldn’t be a friend anymore. Or perhaps we see them at the gym, at work, or in a random park, and the perfect way to describe them is as someone with main character syndrome. So, we’ve rounded up a number of people who caught random entitled folks doing unbelievable things and decided to share their experiences online. Here they are.
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#1
What Type Of Leap In Logic Is This
Norwegian🇳🇴panda 28 minutes ago
I don’t get this? Were they going door to door on Halloween and this person expect them to offer to babysit because they gave them candy? If so..w t f???!
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#2
Capital Of Estonia After A Visit From Swedish Football Fans
#3
Someone Took The Items In My Cart Out Of My Cart And Took My Cart
It may surprise you, but “Main Character Syndrome” isn’t an actual medical condition. It’s considered a social construct rather than a formal diagnosis recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR). But it is so commonly used that several psychologists have analyzed this so-called “syndrome” through an analytical and psychological lens.
Thomas Gilovich and Kenneth Savitsky coined the term “spotlight effect,” which describes the psychological tendency to overestimate how much other people notice our appearance or actions. Essentially, people experiencing this effect may assume others are actively watching and judging their lives, causing them to overestimate how much attention others pay to their actions.
#4
He Is Just Built Different
#5
Entitled Female Puts Her Foot Between Passenger’s Seat On A Train
#6
He Don't Wanna Work Out. He Don't Wanna Give Me The Dumbbells. Been Waiting 15 Mins And He Did 1 Set
#7
Tactless, Entitled, Or Both? You Decide
More recently, we’ve seen countless examples of “Main Character Syndrome” on social media, and it’s not entirely accidental. Specialists like Dr. W. Keith Campbell have argued that social media platforms can act as catalysts for more self-centered and egotistical attitudes and behaviors.
Campbell says social media algorithms can incentivize people to turn everyday activities and otherwise mundane tasks into an aesthetic narrative, either to pursue monetization or to get an ego boost from comments, likes, and shares. Often, this behavior goes hand in hand with people who treat public spaces like private sets or who struggle to understand that other people's lives are just as real as their own.
#8
For Painting A Bird For A Gender Reveal
#10
Cruising Altitude: Feet
#11
I'm Very, Very Glad My Neighbors Don't Airbnb; I've Heard Too Many Horror Stories About Airbnb Guests
While Main Character Syndrome may share some traits with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), especially when it comes to self-focus, attention-seeking, and a constant desire for validation, psychologists distinguish between the two, partly because Main Character Syndrome isn’t a clinical disorder.
Someone with Main Character Syndrome may be egocentric, but these tendencies are often situational and fluid. NPD, on the other hand, is a persistent personality disorder characterized by patterns that can affect a person across different areas of their life, rather than something that only occasionally becomes evident.
#12
Someone Had A Party At The Apartment’s Common Area And Left Thousands Of Popped Balloons For The Birds To Choke On
#13
Influencer Bride Thinks She’s Entitled To A Free Artwork
#14
I Spent $40 On A Perfume From Amazon My Best Friend Asked For Just To Get This Text Before I Go To Sleep
Norwegian🇳🇴panda 42 minutes ago
If unopened can it be returned? Anyway who ask for a specific perfume if they haven’t even smelled it is a mystery to me🤔
#18
Must Be Exhausting Being Thomas
#19
This Is Probably The Worst Profile I've Ever Seen
#20
Mc At The Fountains Of Bellagio
AtMostAFabulist 14 minutes ago
Does she think she is pole dancing or something? Looking for tips?
#21
Parking Your Giant Land Yacht In The Fire Lane Directly In Front Of The Deli
#22
Neighbor Blocked The Dryer For 45 Minutes So She Could Use It When Her Clothes Finished
Binky Melnik 16 minutes ago
I’d have gotta an air horn, pepper spray, and a taser. She’d learn she can’t stop others from using it d****d fast.
#23
Sir, This Is A Burger King
Binky Melnik 42 minutes ago (edited)
Oh, how I hope something he does this on collapses eventually. Where do people get the idea that public spaces are theirs for using in any way they want? I’m imagining the dog s**t particles and whatever else he’s stepped in flying into the anir and landing in peoples’ meals and they don’t see it. 😰
#24
This Was Actually A Designated Walkway In A Parking Lot To Get To An Attraction That Would Have A Lot Of Strollers
#26
In Sushiro …
#27
I Finally Introduced My Best Friend To The Guy I’m Dating
#29
Odd And Entitled Ice Cream Place Reviews (Sunday Funday)
#36
This Guy Sitting On A $100,000+ Car At An Auction And It Isn't His
#37
Safelite Repair…
#39
Can't Have The Same Top As Me 😒
#41
Russian Fencer Decided To Sit Like This For 50 Minutes Demanding To Disqualify Her Ukrainian Opponent Due To “Lack Of Respect” Because She Didn't Shake Her Hand
#42
This Girl At The Airport Waits Until The Queue Moves All The Way Forward To Move. People Confronted Her And She Said “It’s The Same If I Move Now Or Later”
AtMostAFabulist 1 minute ago
Start going around her. She can continue looking at her phone uninterrupted.
#43
Texted My Friend After Not Hearing From Her In A Few Days…
#46
This Main Character Needs To Fly On Her Own Plane
#47
Chronic Main Character Syndrome
The Short Lady 44 minutes ago
Man..don't you realize she forgave herself? What's your excuse for not giving her all the money?
#48
It's Restricted For A Reason
Stardrop 52 minutes ago
ive been around that area! (it's a popular area in colorado for tourists and hikers) and recall SEVERAL signs planted outside the trails with "DO NOT WALK ON THE FRAGILE TUNDRA ECOSYSTEM" or something similar written on them. this woman is a self centered c**t who doesn't know how to appreciate nature that was there before her and will (hopefully) be there after her.
#49
The Bride Who's Wedding Cake Was A Life Size Version Of Herself Is Pretty Mc Behaviour
#51
Entitled Review Main Character
Binky Melnik 1 minute ago
Then DON’T EAT IT, you numpty! I see this on recipe sites, too (“I/my kids can’t eat this! Consider allergic people!”) How do people get THIS stupid?
#53
So Main Character She Had To Post Her Own Bad Parking
#59
My Gym Buddy Thinks Its Okay To Put His Stuff On Dumbbell Rack
#60
Wow
#72
I’ve Spent The Last 45 Minutes In The New Orleans Delta Skyclub Watching These Two Mcs Take Up 50% Of The Walkway Leaving TSA Security And Yell At Everyone Who Walked Through Their Photoshoot
#81
LOL You Bet Your Sweet Ash I Dropped That Off At 10 Am. Best Piece Of Advice Is To Act Like You Did Not See It. Ain’t No Way I’m Waiting Around For Another Hour Before I Drop Your Stuff Off. Some People Are Seriously Entitled
#82
Buddy Wrote A Whole Post Informing A Sub He Was About To Watch A Show. Thank God, We Had Time To Prepare
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