Kapitel 84: Spotlight#93: #Killstagram
Have you ever wanted to not sleep for a weekend? If so, then fear plenty because of #Killstagram by Ryoung! So let's start this preemptive Halloween spotlight with the most terrifying webtoon I've ever read!
Trigger Warning
I never thought I would have to say this, but massive trigger warning for what's ahead. Killstagram deals with many themes of violence, sexual, physical, mental abuse, self-harm, and suicide. Heavy viewer discretion is advised in most of the chapters, and the author himself has posted the phone number for the National Suicide Hotline. So yeah, viewer discretion is heavily advised.
Summary
On the surface, Remi Do has pretty much everything a young girl should be. She's young, pretty, and has an army of followers that can absolutely cancel anyone who dears criticize her. Unfortunately for her, though, that same fame is as much a curse as it is a blessing. Because at the end of the day, you really don't know who is watching.
Characters
Remi Do: our resident dumb, gullible mc. Remi is a character with a surprising amount of layers. She starts off the series very vain, ditsy, shallow, and gullible. However, as the layers get peeled back over multiple traumatic events, we realize that there are plenty of sides to her. At her core, Remi is a courageously kind woman who finds solace and guidance in social media due to the lack of it she got in her very unlucky past.
Overview
Across all my life in the webtoon, I've quite literally never seen someone as unlucky as the cast in this. Like girl, I swear Remi broke an entire house of mirrors while crossing over a river of black cats in a past life. Which pretty says all you need to know about the webtoon's tone.
Ryong's art style, compared to most of my manwha experience, isn't exactly something to write home about, but I would say that it's the master of working limitations. While most of the series is rather cutesy with huge eyes and undetailed bodies, Ryong manages to go all out of the various adversaries Remi faces.
Horrid features, dark outlines, and inhuman traits are given full detail as she manages to craft some beautiful sleep paralysis demons. Combined with the series having more twists than Oliver while having an expert manipulation of tension typical of thrillers and you'll find yourself binging through the series in a couple of hours.
Every pulse-pounding chase sequence is genuinely well-choreographed, always making full use of the environment while giving Remi just enough leeway to stay ahead. It's both depressing and sad that some of the fights are genuinely better choreographed than some other action webtoons, but here we are.
However, beneath all the blood and gore galore, Killstagram has many unique traits (other than being the second webtoon I know with a hashtag in the title). There are many social commentaries labeled throughout the story, mainly those about the dangers that can come from social media, lookism (not the webtoon), victim complexes, and depression.
All of which I think is handled really well within the larger context of the series without being incredibly damaging (though I'm not the best person to ask on that front). It's commentary that will only grow more relevant as we see this new digital world we live in. As someone also trying to build a social media presence, this has definitely made me more cautious.
There would probably be multiple sides to every story if there were truly any real message to gain from all this. However, we are all people at the end of the day, and I definitely think that the Internet has made us forget a lot about that in recent years.
This is why we should always do better to remember that silly golden rule. Because trust me when I say that words have more meaning than you'll ever know. At least, I would hope so, given what I want my career to be about.
Epilogue
Overall, #Killstagram is a short and very sour horror/ thriller that will go great with the current season. Sorry for the jokes ruining the mood, but trust me, if you read this series all the way through, you'll fucking thank me for not completely in. While the series isn't officially over, I don't really know which direction the story will take in the series, so we'll have to see.
I hope this spotlight is a lot better than my past Halloween spotlights since I truly want to improve my reviews while I get back into the swing of things. Unfortunately, many webtoons have either ended, started back, or everything in between, so I've got a lot of catching up to do. I'm hoping that if all works well, I'll deliver another spooky webtoon, but if not, I hope you manage to have a terrifying Halloween and that you'll survive to see where the spotlight shines on next.
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