Not deleted. Not flagged. Just gone , replaced by a pale gray rectangle that said: This content has been memory-holed by the Like Booster™ Network for “Excess Emotive Redistribution.”

Maya sat in the silence of a normal feed. Her cat photo had 6 likes. Her debt lament had none. But the absence of the shimmer was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen.

Then the debt post vanished.