Maya Chen scrolled through her "For You" page, the blue light from her phone painting her face in the cramped dorm room she shared with two other girls. On screen, a TikToker with perfect hair was crying about a midterm. Swipe. A podcast clip debated whether the Euphoria season three time jump was brilliant or a disaster. Swipe. A YouTube thumbnail screamed: "We Snuck Into a Secret Ivy League Party (Gone Wrong)."
Tonight, she was editing her most ambitious project yet: "Is College Still a Movie? Or Did Streaming Ruin It?" Maya Chen scrolled through her "For You" page,
Then she reopened her editing software. She deleted the past ten minutes of voiceover. She started fresh. Maya Chen scrolled through her "For You" page,