She had 4.1 million followers and a ring light she had owned longer than any relationship. The suspension landed on a Thursday at 6:12 p.m., mid-edit, for a policy she had never read, written in a vocabulary of violations she could not dispute. She refreshed forty times in nine minutes. Every time, the app loaded her name with a zero underneath it.

Her mother called to ask if she was okay and she said the account was the okay part, which she had meant as a joke. The appeal form allowed five hundred characters. She wrote three drafts; the one she sent opened by explaining that this was her entire income and closed by apologizing. Nobody answered. The ring light was still on at 4 a.m.