The night @zolarmoon dropped her famous 148-tweet thread story, a wild and terrifying nightmare tale of stripping and sex work in Florida, it felt more like taking in a Hollywood drama than reading a Twitter thread. Dashed out in speedy, 140-character increments, the stripper Aziah “Zola” King ratcheted up tension tweet by tweet, writing a digital blockbuster that attracted millions eagerly refreshing her thread for the next dispatch in her saga.
But Harris and Bravo resist the impulse to make the film too shiny, digging deep into a vision that honors’s roots as a distinctly social media phenomenon. Twitter notification and chat sounds make their way into the mix of dialogue, the camera cuts at one point to an impromptu iPhone music video shot to Migos, and in one tense scene an Apple volume bar appears on-screen and begins to lower the movie’s sound.
From the moment she asked the internet void if they wanted to hear about “why me & this bitch here fell out???????” King’s tweets were funny and foul, coloring her experience so vividly and with such casualness that it felt like reading a chat log from a best friend with one incredibly juicy story. Bravo and Harris kept the real-life Kingon the movie’s production, a dispiriting rarity for social media creators whose work is sooner ripped off than given proper credit.
The original Twitter thread was a thriller specifically built for a Twitter audience, with King an expert in grabbing the attention of its users, and the intimacy she created in her tweets is likely impossible to recreate effectively in a movie. On a platform crowded with mundanity, King’s tweets were a welcome, shocking storytime.
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