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Hu Ermei was a 32-year-old street vendor in a county town in Sichuan. She went to Chengdu to work as a waitress at a hotpot restaurant at age 16, got married at 21. After giving birth to her second child, she began selling street food in her hometown. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/WvgAjZ-6Nv...

Her husband is invisible in this Southern Weekly reporting on her story. She had two sisters and one brother. She once posted on social media: "What is depression? Every day, except when I’m chatting with customers at my stall, I can't stop crying. I feel so exhausted." On her 32th birthday

she said her husband and in-laws didn't remember her birthday. Her brother, not unlike a typical only-son in a family of many daughters, said: "What evidence is there that she was depressed? She had never taken any medication for depression, by what right can you label her as depressed?"

She posted about one short video every other day recording her life. social media might have been a rare source of joy and connection; however it turned out to be destructive when things go wrong. Platform violence is particularly brutal in small towns where "everyone knows everyone". The neg review