this had me squirming in my seat and fearing for the protagonist's life like nothing else has before. sunny represents such a specific and gut-wrenching kind of abuse—it's hard to go very far in the modern internet without seeing someone saying the exact things she does, exploiting people in the exact same way she does. it's a truly generational sort of trauma that I'm surprised I haven't seen more works remarking on
the story speaking to that while also speaking to the unique pressures and sense of helplessness inherent to being an online creator, with a dash of suburban isolationism in both physical and social capacities, make this into something really, really special!! and the presentation of it, the cinematic pauses and attentiveness to the continuity of physical space, did a lot to immerse me in this lonely house in the middle of the woods.
bug girls forever <3