In Jo Piazza's thriller, "Everyone Is Lying To You," Lizzie, a struggling writer, is invited to an influencing conference by her estranged friend Bex, now an Instagram-famous tradwife. After Bex disappears and her husband is found murdered, Lizzie is left to uncover the truth. The excerpt dives into the complexities of maintaining an authentic online persona while grappling with real emotions and the demands of a vast audience. Bex reveals the pressures of content creation, demonstrating the distance between her public facade and private struggles.
There's a right way to be authentic and a wrong way to be authentic. It's the first thing you learn when you start doing the kind of work I do.
The right way to be 'authentic' online is to give away bits and pieces of yourself that seem real, to gently mock yourself, to reveal tiny imperfections, but never big ones.
My audience is a hungry beast. It wants more, needs more. We need to produce photos, videos, captions, content, content, content, to keep the views, to keep the sponsors.
I'm almost always performing, and I have gotten very good at it.
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