It’s become increasingly easy to create filtered perfection through a screen, but what are the damaging effects of on-the-rise influencer stardom?
Slide into the world of broadcast-boy Austyn Tester, an aspiring young influencer on the slippery road to online fame. From his poster-clad bedroom in rural Tennessee, sixteen-year-old Tester live streams himself to a growing audience of doting fangirls who eat up his dispatches of love and devotion. The reciprocal exchange of projected desires and mutual validation is intoxicating, but fragile. Foregoing moral judgments in favour of tenderness for her subject, director Liza Mendelup exposes the complexities behind what it means to chase your dreams in an era where being “liked” is conflated with being loved.
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