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.
#1 Starring: Yearbook’s Photo Editor
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#2 This Is Probably The Worst Profile I’ve Ever Seen
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#3 Entitled Female Puts Her Foot Between Passenger’s Seat On A Train
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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 Entitled Bikers Take Over Pedestrian Trail
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#5 Nonono They Need A New iPhone Specificly
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#6 Wants Pampering, But It Has To Be Before Her Weekend Birthday! Can Pay With Modeling
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#7 He Don’t Wanna Work Out. He Don’t Wanna Give Me The Dumbbells. Been Waiting 15 Mins And He Did 1 Set
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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 This Guy Sitting On A $100,000+ Car At An Auction And It Isn’t His
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#9 Capital Of Estonia After A Visit From Swedish Football Fans
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#10 Cruising Altitude: Feet
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#11 I Spent $40 On A Perfume From Amazon My Best Friend Asked For Just To Get This Text Before I Go To Sleep
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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 Took The Items In My Cart Out Of My Cart And Took My Cart
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#13 Mc At The Fountains Of Bellagio
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#14 Tactless, Entitled, Or Both? You Decide
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#15 Parking Your Giant Land Yacht In The Fire Lane Directly In Front Of The Deli
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#16 Wheelchair Ramp? You Mean My Personal Parking Spot
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#17 He Is Just Built Different
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#18 What Type Of Leap In Logic Is This
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#19 Ultimate Mc
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#20 Person At Airport Unplugs ATM To Charge Their Phone
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#21 At A Concert With A Woman Who Was Filming With Flash On The Entire Time
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#22 Sir, This Is A Burger King
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#23 This Was Actually A Designated Walkway In A Parking Lot To Get To An Attraction That Would Have A Lot Of Strollers
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#24 Someone Had A Party At The Apartment’s Common Area And Left Thousands Of Popped Balloons For The Birds To Choke On
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#25 Influencer Bride Thinks She’s Entitled To A Free Artwork
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#26 In Sushiro …
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#27 I Finally Introduced My Best Friend To The Guy I’m Dating
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#28 They Don’t Sell Eclairs
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#29 Odd And Entitled Ice Cream Place Reviews (Sunday Funday)
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#30 Couple Parks A Car In The Middle Of An Asphalt Area Just To Take Pictures
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#31 Safelite Repair…
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#32 I’m Very, Very Glad My Neighbors Don’t Airbnb; I’ve Heard Too Many Horror Stories About Airbnb Guests
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#33 Neighbor Blocked The Dryer For 45 Minutes So She Could Use It When Her Clothes Finished
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#34 Can’t Have The Same Top As Me 😒
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#35 I Mean
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#36 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
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#37 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”
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#38 Texted My Friend After Not Hearing From Her In A Few Days…
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#39 I’m Baffled
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#40 Main Character Thumbnail
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#41 For Painting A Bird For A Gender Reveal
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#42 Tour Guide Has The Spotlight😄
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#43 This Main Character Needs To Fly On Her Own Plane
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#44 Chronic Main Character Syndrome
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#45 It’s Restricted For A Reason
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#46 The Bride Who’s Wedding Cake Was A Life Size Version Of Herself Is Pretty Mc Behaviour
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#47 Maincharacter Realtor, Images Pulled From The Zillow Listing, She’s In Half Of Them
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#48 Must Be Exhausting Being Thomas
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#49 Entitled Review Main Character
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#50 So Main Character She Had To Post Her Own Bad Parking
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#51 Public Space Innit
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#52 Acting Crazy On A Flight To Avoid People
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#53 The Driver Had Better Gotten A Good Tip
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#54 Lady Decides To Walk Through Wet Cement
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#55 How Teens Leave My Local McDonald’s
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#56 My Gym Buddy Thinks Its Okay To Put His Stuff On Dumbbell Rack
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#57 Wow
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#58 Kerið Crater, Iceland. Don’t Walk On The Ice
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#59 Because God Forbid Soccer Fans Are Sane
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#60 2 Passengers Miss Their Flight & Try To Stop Plane From Taking Off
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#61 Oh, Look At That! It’s The Consequences Of Your Actions
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#62 Bike Stair Fail, Good Thing Nobody Was There
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#63 You Don’t Deserve People To Give Up Their Seats For You Just Because You Have Kids!
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#64 Chick Gets Offended Cause Someone Dared To Walk Between Her And Her Phone
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#65 Love When Main Characters Expose Themselves Like This
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#66 Shouldn’t He Be The One Whose Reaction We Care About?
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#67 Finds Out Euros Aren’t Optional
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#68 Perhaps An Og Main Charachter?
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#69 What A Shame…
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#70 It’s Normal!
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#71 We Learn This In Highschool 😎
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#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
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#73 Mc Thinks People Cares About His Patch In Public
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#74 Spotted A Main Character On This Sub Lmao
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#75 This Was Absolutely Necessary!
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#76 Guy Decides To Go To Rafa Nadal’s Home To Ring His Doorbell
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#77 I Crave Attention
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#78 “No Thanks 👋🏾
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#79 Man Walks In The Middle Of The Road
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#80 Influencers When There Is Public In Public Place
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#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
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#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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#83 Woman Sitting Next To Me On The Plane Stole My Complimentary Chocolate While I Was Asleep…
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#84 These People Are Sitting Next To Me, Across From Their Bags
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#85 The Woman Next To Me Stretched Out Her Leg Into My Leg Space On The Plane
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#86 Someone Threw Bottle Of Dish Soap Into Fountain. Foamy Mess Everywhere
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#87 Lovely
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#88 “I’m Spending My Kids Inheritance”
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#89 Went Hiking And Came Across The Aftermath Of A Gender Reveal
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#90 Don’t Be This Person
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