Yiran Ma
← Composition

The Looking-Glass Self

Director
Tianyi Zhang
Country
China
Year
2026
Category
Sound Post / Animation

A girl is addicted to social media, feeling unattractive and unpopular in real life, drawing her sense of self-worth instead from likes and comments online. As her livestream likes surge, she grows increasingly dependent on it, falling for the false version of herself it shows. It's only when she happens to see a mirror she had covered up that she recognizes her real self — but by then, she's already grown used to the beautiful, false one...