Jamie Loftus’s Main Characters

The “Bed Intruder” song is an archetypal viral internet meme. First uploaded to YouTube in the summer of 2010, the video latched on to a notably incongruous moment in a local news segment about a serious incident — a home invasion and an attempted rape in a Huntsville, Alabama, low-income neighborhood — and turned it into a jaunty, upbeat season. If you were anywhere close to a computer monitor or television around that time, you might be familiar with the hook...