The unnamed main character is the main protagonist of the 2016 music video "Are You Lost In The World Like Me?" which is animated by Steve Cutts for the Moby & The Void Pacific Choir's song of the same name. He is a young boy who attempts to get people off their phones but fails.
What makes him a Scrappy?[]
- Although the music video has good intentions of showing the viewers the serious issues of social media and phone addiction through the animation and main character, many people thought it does a terrible job at addressing said problems with people seeing the animation and the character as "over the top" and attempting to guilt trip you.
- Many people thought the main character has a Protagonist-Centered Morality as he is shown to supposedly be the good guy all because he doesn't use a phone.
- He seems to be upset about a woman choosing her date which is a man who she finds attractive which is not even bad at all, and it only makes him look like one of those "nice guys" who talks about how women don't accept them for being nice but rather other men for their looks.
- Many people thought he's selfish as in a scene during a train ride when he sees a guy harassing a woman, he imagines himself beating up that guy with many people cheering him on and the woman being in love with him. This makes him come off as being entitled as he wanted to save the woman not because she was being harassed but rather for the attention and praise from the crowd.
- Another example would be that he attempts to get people's attention even going so far as to get up to some people's faces and shaking them violently like a manic all so someone could notice him. He even at one point tries to get the viewers' attention.
- In one scene, he is seen petting a dog, but it gets kicked in front of him, which is supposed to be another one of the effects of phone users. This makes no sense, however, as the usage of phones doesn't motivate people to simply kick dogs for no reason and fails to make him sympathetic.
- When he sheds a tear after one girl commits suicide for falling off a building, it was mocked and memed online for being "cringe", unrealistic and considered to be "Narm" with the animation attempting to make him to be the only "nice and good" guy for not using a phone.
- Overall, the animation unintentionally made the animation not about phone addiction but rather about the main character being self-centered who attempts to get the people to get off their phones because he wants admiration and attention.
Trivia[]
- He along with MAN are the only scrappies to be from a Steve Cutts animation.