She isn't the most popular but not totally at the bottom of the "high school hierarchy". Tae and her friends Melody and Charlie fight through the judgy Ackerman High School. In Ackerman High you need to be 1 athletic 2 following the "Micheal rules" 3 not lgbtq+ and 4 white, to be popular or takin seriously by the alumni. If you don't fit into at least one of those categories you won't survive, or you will and just wish you left like the rest of the bullied kids. Tae has seen many come and go because of the known "Michael hierarchy" well some of them anyways some new kids wouldn't make it a month without transferring to a new school.