A Fictional-Characters Personality Quiz Is Causing Social Media Chaos
I think I speak for many of us when I say that taking a personality quiz about fictional characters should be a fun, light, chill experience. But recently, a different kind of personality quiz has taken over the internet, one with answers that might just be too accurate for quiz-takers on social media.
The "Statistical 'Which Character' Personality Quiz" quiz from the Open-Source Psychometrics Project is the quiz that currently has seemingly everyone talking (and sharing hot takes) on Twitter right now. A brief introduction before taking this quiz reveals the creator was looking to create a personality test using over 400 fictional characters from popular movies, TV shows, and books for more in-depth results — and teases that this ain't your standard-issue BuzzFeed quiz.
"When the creator of this website would tell people that he published personality tests on the internet, people would usually ask him if he meant that he worked at BuzzFeed on their 'Which character are you?' personality quizzes," the introduction begins, continuing with, "And he would have to explain that he did not and had never been very interested in that style of test. These quizzes are very fun, as evidenced by their extreme popularity. But they are not that meaningful. Two people who get the same result on a typical example of these tests don't necessarily have much more in common than two randomly paired individuals. So for the longest time this website had not one character match personality quiz, but I guess it was inevitable because here is an attempt at a slightly more scientific, but still silly, 'Which Character Are You?' test."
The quiz itself is fairly standard. You're given an initial set of 28 questions. For each question, you must move a slider between two ideological opposites, like "normal" versus "weird," "dominant" versus "submissive," "spiritual" versus "skeptical," and "artistic" versus "scientific." As you move the slider, you can see the percentage split on either side, which means you're not really choosing one characteristic over another, but gauging what mix of two paired characteristics you are. After the 28 questions are done, you can either wrap it up and get your results or do another set of questions where you choose a popular TV show and then do the same slider questions for each character.
After taking the quiz and seeing other people's results online, that introduction blurb wasn't lying: This personality quiz is unlike anything you'll find on other quiz sites. Not only are you given a primary result, but you also get a list of dozens of pop culture characters listed by percentage of how much you are like them. Numerous characters from pop culture franchises, including Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, The Office, Parks & Rec, The Simpsons, and Star Trek are among the possible results.
Because the possible results are so wide-ranging, folks have been sharing their mixed reactions on Twitter after taking the quiz. "I have rarely been so accurately destroyed," one person wrote alongside a pic of Harry Potter's Horace Slughorn. Another was faced with a harsh reality of life: "This quiz told me i could never be a protagonist." The picture was of Samwell Tarly from Game of Thrones.
For a bigger taste of how people are handling their quiz results on Twitter, check out more reactions below:
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