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If you've been on Twitter at all over the past 24 hours, chances are you've heard about the sorry saga of John 'Bean Dad' Roderick and his epic Twitter downfall. If not, we'll catch you up to speed. On Jan 2, @johnroderick posted a marathon of a Twitter thread, boasting at length about refusing to show his hungry nine-year-old daughter how to use a can opener to open a can of beans. In the thread he recounts encouraging her to struggle with the device over a span of six hours in hopes to help her build character, or something. An outcry across Twitter immediately ensued and it didn't take long for people to dig up many racist, sexist, homophobic, and antisemitic tweets from @johnroderick's past. This kerfuffle went so viral, it might even affect the future of Jeopardy! (Don't ask.)

'Bean Dad' is, without a doubt, the unfortunate first main character of 2021. Hopefully this isn't foreshadowing a very cursed year. We've collected some of the funniest Twitter reactions to the whole 'Bean Dad' saga. (Content warning: some of the screenshots of @johnroderick's older tweets contain offensive language.)

It can be difficult to wrap your mind around how dumb some people are. It's these exact people you just can't unfriend on Facebook because of the hilarity that ensues from watching their trainwreck lives unfold right before your very eyes. This dude named Rob took it upon himself to troll absolutely every single one of his Facebook-friend Brendan's statuses, and we salute him for that.

Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown has been the victim recently of some pretty brutal online harassment in the form of people attributing fake, incredibly offensive quotes to her under the moniker #TakeDownMillieBobbyBrown. Unfortunately, she felt compelled to delete her Twitter account on Wednesday after the ordeal, so we've gotta give the disclaimer that Millie Bobby Brown didn't actually say any of this and that she's probably a lovely person.