My Mother Priced Me by Likes
Language: en
Mom always said I wasn't good at talking and wasn't likable, that I couldn't compare to our neighbor's influencer daughter. To fix me, she set down a rule: post one video each month, and I'd get as much allowance as there were comments. Before the semester started, I posted a video. Three comments. The first month, Mom really only gave me three dollars. The second month, I posted a video. I begged classmates one by one for help, registered ten burner accounts to comment on my own posts, and went to other people's comment sections begging for mutual engagement. After struggling to scrape…