(review with spoilers, repost from toxic yuri jam server)
that sure made me feel awful. really good portrayal of being chronically online and completely dependent on the internet with all your emotional needs, looking for companionship and approval among people who will turn on you if you don't fit their standards of purity. when you feel like there's literally nothing else to hold on to, the fragile online world collapsing can destroy you. also yaaayyy we love subjecting yourself to digital self harm.
i also need to say i really love the grungy scratchy feel of your art and evocative colors.
ngl i kinda suspected Scarlet was an AI early on, from the generic responses it gave, but the confirmation of that still felt pretty devastating - it was a kinda heartwarming story about freeing yourself and unlearning shame for a little bit, and then the other shoe dropped, lol. seeing Lila cling to it just to feel any positive emotion was so fucking depressing. (also made me expect that the audio recordings would be abused in some way, which... they kind of were later? we're getting to that.)
now the final twist... i saw a lot of people are mixed on, and tbh it did feel rather tackled on. i think i can see what you were trying to do - it's certainly relevant to real life, with how AI is being shoehorned everywhere especially for jobs better done by a human, and it is already tricking a lot of vulnerable people into further isolating themselves. but it felt like such a ridiculous addition in this context.
i enjoyed this overall, always love a good downward spiral of a hurt girl.