Hanna Liu was exhausted. Another impossibly long day of Zoom University was killing her. It wasn’t exactly the final year she had had in mind. This was supposed to be a time of amazing experiences, good times with old friends, final adventures. Instead, she spent all day staring at her computer, and all evening staring at computer.
She should probably get outside, go exercise, read a book, or really do anything else. But she was tired, and the only thing she really felt like doing was spending the evening shit-posting on Reddit. The 21-year old had found great joy in enraging fragile white boys on the internet over the past few months. It was so easy, and so delicious to get them all riled up.
She was barely an hour into that evening’s crusade when a message popped up in her inbox. Only 10 minutes previously, she had thrown her hat into the ring of a particularly controversial debate over the fetisisation of women of colour on Tik Tok. Naturally, the white boys didn’t like being called racist, sexist pricks and it irritated them even more when they found out she was a woman of colour herself. She opened the chat message.