Main Character Energy or Female Rage? Let’s Discuss

You’re walking down the street. Headphones in. Lana Del Rey or Olivia Rodrigo blasting. You’re picturing your life as a music video—sun flare, slow motion, a slight breeze that hits just right. You’re not going anywhere important, but the vibe? Cinematic.

Is it ✨main character energy✨ or are you low-key full of rage in a claw clip?

In a world where girls are expected to romanticise their trauma, smile through microaggressions, and turn heartbreak into aesthetics, the line between main character and mad woman is getting blurry. Let’s unpack.

🎬 What Is Main Character Energy?

On TikTok, main character energy is the art of curating your life like it’s a film. Think:

• Reading in cafés alone

• Dramatically quitting jobs

• Dancing barefoot in your kitchen

• Wearing something unhinged “just because”

It’s aesthetic, it’s confident, it’s often soft and romantic. A little chaotic. But mostly—it’s about reclaiming agency in a world that tries to make women side characters.

But… that’s where it gets messy.

🔥 Enter: Female Rage, Dressed as a Pinterest Board

We love a good girlboss downfall, a revenge dress, a scream-into-the-void moment. But TikTok has turned rage into a brand. We burn sage, scream Taylor Swift’s Vigilante Shit on loop, and call it healing. But sometimes it’s just plain rage. And that’s okay.

Examples of disguised rage:

• Smiling while saying “I wish him well” with murder in your eyes

• Posting Midnights lyrics with a cute mirror selfie

• Rebranding burnout as ✨boundaries✨

We’re expected to perform our breakdowns beautifully. If it’s not aesthetically pleasing, is it even valid?

🧠 So, Are We Romanticising Survival?

Main character energy was supposed to be empowering. “Make your life cinematic!” But suddenly we’re supposed to be heartbreak hot, fired fabulous, and spiralling softly with a candle burning. Where’s the space to just… rage?

Are we still pretending it's normal to cry at our desk, take a photo, post it with a Taylor Swift caption, and call it feminine mystique?

Or are we secretly screaming into the void and calling it content?

🎭 The Duality Is Real (and Also Kinda Exhausting)

You can be the main character and a little feral. You can romanticise your life and want to burn it all down. We contain multitudes—and right now, it feels like Gen Z feminism lives at the intersection of hot girl healing and barely-contained fury.

It’s giving:

• “I’m unbothered” → clearly bothered, but hot
• “I’m journaling” → aggressively writing hexes in pink gel pen
• “It’s fine” → it is, in fact, not fine

Final Thought: Be Both. Be Everything.

Maybe the answer isn’t choosing. Maybe main character energy and female rage are two sides of the same coin. One is the performance. The other is the fire under it.

So scream in your car, wear the dramatic trench coat, post the cryptic lyrics. Be soft and angry. Delicate and destructive.

Just make sure you’re being real—whether that looks like a sad girl playlist or a spreadsheet titled “Why I Deserve Better.”

Because at the end of the day, you are the plot. And the villain. And the final girl.