# Despair After Divorce: Unpacking the Viral Short Drama's Toxic Tropes and Addictive Appeal
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It's 2:17 AM. My laundry is tumbling its slow, synthetic rhythm in the next room, and I'm hunched over my phone, the blue light reflecting in my wide, sleep-deprived eyes. On screen, Eva Shaw, the protagonist of Despair After Divorce, is delivering a withering, perfectly articulated clapback to her smirking ex-husband, whose face is now a mask of horror. There's a part of me, the one that subscribes to The New York Times and believes in nuanced emotional intelligence, that knows this is absolute, unadulterated trash. But then there's the other part, the one that just screamed
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