Summary

The fifth story, “Main Character”, is framed as an online deep dive by a collection of amateur digital sleuths into a controversy that has recently gone viral, known as Botgate. The introduction states that there is a lot of misinformation surrounding the controversy before introducing The Post, which started the furore.

The post is written by a Thai American person named Bee, the sister of Kant from the third story in the collection. As a child, Bee “sold” their gender to a boy at school for $22, in a way that mimicked the concept of selling one’s soul. As a teenager, Bee became a goth. Bee was disciplined at school for teaching the other goths swear words in Thai. The school requested that Bee no longer speak any Thai at school because the teachers were unable to monitor whether they...