Deleting You From My Picture

When I prepared to deactivate our TikTok account—the one with over a million followers—the comments section was a frenzy of pleas.

"Please don't go! We're still waiting for your travel documentary series!"

I stared at the screen, gave a quiet, humorless laugh, and tapped confirm.

My boyfriend was the editor. We’d made a pact to document every city we visited together on the platform. For three years, my lens was trained entirely on him. But in the final cuts he exported, I was nowhere to be found.