'Hatching' - Social Media as the Modern Cardboard World
Hanna Bergholm's 'Hatching' shows us that the modern version of the cardboard world trope is social media.

A man is waiting alone in a snow-covered house deep in the mountains. the woman was supposed to meet him days before but she hasn't arrived and the man waits on, believing that the woman will still come. As the hours pass the man's mind slips in and out of reality as he fantasises on her and her sexuality. His body grows numb from the cold and he begins to drift from reality to a dream world where his imagination knows no limits.
Hanna Bergholm's 'Hatching' shows us that the modern version of the cardboard world trope is social media.
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