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The Highlight ReelMaya had 1.2 million followers. Her mornings started with golden-hour smoothie bowls, her afternoons with curated thrift hauls, her evenings with soft-lighting affirmations: "You deserve the world, besties."Her real mornings started with a dead phone battery and a landlord text: "Rent is 2 weeks late."She had mastered the art of the crop—hiding the laundry pile behind her smiling face, angling the camera away from the empty fridge, filtering out the exhaustion under her eyes. Online, Maya was thriving: brand deals, viral tweets, comments calling her "goals." Offline, she hadn't eaten a real meal in two days. Her mother's