This spring, I saw a TikTok that intrigued me. Befuddled me, maybe I should say. A woman sat on her bed and screamed into a pillow. The text across the middle of the screen read, “this feels worse than texting your ex.” A pinned comment said “She def doesn’t know about this audio lol.”

Confusing, right? I know my description doesn’t make any sense. Neither did the video. That was the problem.

I tried to tap into the caption at the bottom to see what comment the video was in response to, so I could understand the context (turns out it was about an earlier video she made about her Coachella outfit, where she accidentally used a thematically…