She's very competitive and tries to work out what 'sells', climbing the rankings of the site she appears on. She has friends and rivals in the industry and longs to be in the 'top 50'.
One day she finds herself locked out of her account.
No good will come of this.
CW: nudity, objectification of women (funnily enough), self harm, suicide
This is amazing. Feeling uninspired this evening I stuck "top Blumhouse movies" into Google and the clickbaity article I read had this at #3 up with things like "Get Out". They weren't wrong. I knew it was supposed to be decent but had avoided it as it had the whiff of exploitation. I was wrong.
Written by Isa Mazzie, who did a stint in online sex work, this has Alice going into a nosedive when her online persona "Lola" is hijacked and continues to somehow churn out material that seems to be from her while she's trying to regain control of the account.
It covers issues with identity theft, loss of reputation from deepfake material, the dangers of creepy parasocial relationships and how people on the fringes of society can't expect to receive help from authority when things start to go wrong.
It's tense and gets increasingly creepy as it goes on. A very large part of the runtime has Madeline Brewer onscreen playing both the increasingly bereft Alice and ever perky Lola, often in two versions of the room she has set up for streaming. It's a great performance.
I love that it never fully explains what is going on.
Highly recommended 9/10, on Netflix now.