Broadcasted to Death: My Mother’s Final Livestream

Chloe is the daughter of a famous mommy blogger with tens of millions of followers, and her entire life has been broadcast across social media for engagement and views. Her mother livestreams her first period, reads a classmate's love note aloud to millions, barges into the shower for "bonding," and auctions off whatever Chloe grows attached to. Chloe's father, chasing a tenured professorship, only urges her to endure it.

When her mother puts Chloe's late grandmother's silver bracelet up for a charity auction, Chloe protests and is shoved back; her father drags her onto the cushions and hisses that she must not ruin the stream. The hammer falls at seven thousand dollars. The next day Chloe presents her mother with a pink hard drive she calls the family's complete digital archive, and her mother embraces her and posts a glowing selfie.

That night Chloe steps onto the balcony of the penthouse she calls a cage and lets herself fall, leaving behind a parting gift her mother must open with her own hands.