'The Drama' effect—we asked people the worst thing they’ve ever done and the answers are wildly chaotic

In 2021, American journalist Michelle Goldberg wrote an essay for The New York Times—now immortalised as a meme—titled We Should All Know Less About Each Other. To that, Norwegian film director Kristoffer Borgli seems to respond, “Where’s the fun in that?” with his latest film, The Drama. If you haven’t watched it yet and have successfully dodged spoilers, consider this your cue to book a ticket immediately and come back to this story later.

For those who have, here’s a quick refresher. The plot follows Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson), a young couple on the brink of marriage. Things begin to unravel when Charlie hears Emma’s answer to a seemingly simple question: what’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? What follows—and the fallout it triggers—has single-handedly polarised audiences, which is not something you see very often anymore, at least not for a film.

Even two weeks after its release, the A24 movie and the discourse it has sparked are still going strong. Naturally, we leaned into it and asked some of you to share the worst things you’ve done. While we’re hesitant to go full TikTok psychologist and start diagnosing anyone, anonymous entries feel like fair game.

We were on a break!

“I f*cked another girl two hours after my ex girlfriend, and I went on a break.”

Remember Facebook?

“There used to be a clout chaser in our friend group who wanted to gain some sort of in with the popular kids, so she told them my friend’s secrets. I was obviously very inflamed on my friend’s behalf, so I broke into her social media and put weird statuses from her Facebook and texted her crush, insulting his girlfriend and whatnot.”

Spit out of spite

“My grandmother was such a pill! One time when I came home after college, I saw her talking in my mother’s ear about me, so I spat in her lassi.”

Who chote? (You’d have to be really chronically online to get this reference)

“I cheated on my boyfriend with his best friend, who was cheating on his girlfriend.”

Don’t kink and tell

“I was hooking up with this couple I met on Hinge in Mumbai who had some sort of a cat kink. The woman was always the voyeur, and she would sit on the edge of the bed with a cat collar on. Even though I enjoyed the whole shtick, I still went ahead and told everyone about them on my public Instagram story.”

“I once dragged my friend to this monument in Delhi, which is infamous for its resident djinns. As a prank, I left him there and ran off. He was scared to death.”

Pee and flee

“I was driving on a highway and couldn’t find a loo anywhere and I couldn’t hold it in either, so I peed out of my car’s window and (accidentally) on a man riding by.”

A lesson no classroom can fix

“When I was 17, I used to catfish my Math teacher for fun, and I still look at the nudes he sent me. I am 32 now.”

Corporate greed, but scaled down

“I steal office supplies at work and sell them for cheaper, just for the heck of it.”

For the plot

“I kissed my ex the day before my wedding. My husband has no idea.”

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