The Clip That Made the Spot Famous
I posted a line clip. The spot flooded with tourists. Locals were mad. I took it down. Fame has a body count in skate culture. Documentary filmmaking is not...
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Deleted My Finsta Before the Counselor Saw
I had a finsta with rants about school, parents, and crush drama. My counselor said colleges might look. I deleted two years of posts in ten minutes. It felt...
The Skate Clip Got 200K and the Kid Got Grounded
I filmed a fourteen-year-old landing a trick he had worked on for months. Posted it. The clip blew up. His mom saw it, realized he was skating the parking ga...
The Poem I Deleted From Instagram
I posted a poem at 2 a.m. and deleted it by breakfast. Not because it was bad. Because it was too true, and three people I know in real life had already seen...
The Group Chat Where Everyone Is Fine
I posted something real in the group chat last night — about anxiety, about feeling behind — and within ninety seconds got four heart emojis and a meme. Not...
The Mom Who Knows Doesn't Know Either
A parenting influencer admits the truth: the expertise is performed, the certainty is a product, and the best moment of her week was unfilmable.
A History Teacher Is Losing to TikTok. We All Are.
When a TikTok gets the Bay of Pigs date wrong and six students believe it, the problem isn't laziness — it's how viral platforms rewire what counts as fact.