Page 3 of Love at First Sighting

None of this is smart. But it’s the first real thing to happen to me in years.

“No,” I push back. “I was trying to make sure that if I died , someone knew about it.”

“Okay, well, you’re safe now, love. Delete it.”

Anger furls in my stomach. I don’t want to delete it.

“No. If you don’t mind, get out of my way. I want to go upstairs and shower.”

I push past her and up the stairs. I lock my bedroom door and strip out of my athleisure. When I turn on the shower, the faucet vibrates and lets out a bellowing moan. I slam it off before it can make any more noise. I live it all over again. The noise. The lights.

I sit down on the cold tile for a minute and watch the video again.

And again. Each time, I think I pull some new detail out of the darkness.

And the comments keep piling up. I can already envision the headlines that’ll emerge out of this by morning.

Within hours, my mom will have seen it and asked if it’ll impact my finances.

By the time I finally muster the courage to shower, I’ve hit another fifty thousand views.

I try to scrub off my fear with several freebie shower gels I’ve been given, customized shampoo I promoted six months ago, and a loofah infused with Icelandic volcanic ash and charcoal.

My entire life is a facade of my own crafting. No one really knows me. No one really knows the truth.

Now I need them to.

I’ve wrapped a towel around myself and stepped back into my room when there’s a knock on my door. I stand on the other side of it but do not open it.

“What?”

“Thank you!” Bex shouts.

“For what ?”

“For deleting the video!”

Deleting… I didn’t…

All it takes is a quick scroll through my page to realize my live video is gone. There’s no notification of it being taken down for violating guidelines or anything. It’s like it was never there.

I don’t know what I saw, but I now know I was not supposed to.

Skroll News

Published 3 hours ago

New Brand Alert? Influencer El Martin’s Chaotic Video Breakdown

By now, if you’re not living under a rock, you know who El Martin is.

The 28-year-old social media influencer has been on the scene for almost ten years but has gained recent popularity after joining the Bird’s Nest, an influencer house in the Hollywood Hills.

Raking in over a million followers, the model is mostly known for her scorching photos and beauty tips.

[photo from @elohelmartin, featuring a white woman with dark hair posing in a black bikini on the beach.]

But is she about to be known for something else? Like UFO hunting?

[GIF of an alien dabbing]

Last night, Martin went live on Instagram, in a video featuring the influencer out and about in the mountains, followed by a series of bright lights coming from an invisible source.

“I have no idea what just happened, and I doubt anybody is going to believe me, but I need to share this,” a clearly flustered Martin tells her followers.

[Screenshot of a blurry video from @elohelmartin, featuring the subject with bright lights casting behind her.]

Eventually, Martin was able to defeat and evade at least one follower.

“And in case someone murders me on the walk back to my car, you’ll know what happened and where to find my body.

Uh, peace and love. Bye?” the influencer concluded before ending the video.

However, the video quality makes it difficult to see exactly what she’s filming.

[Embedded video from @elohelmartin reading “This content has been deleted.”]

It’s a sharp contrast to her usual content—sponsored ads for shampoo, makeup, and athletic gear—and doesn’t match the perfect aesthetic image she’s cultivated over the years. Could this new freak-out be a hard launch of a new brand?

In recent years, other influencers have taken to film and TV projects, including Mikey Mayhem, who has been making waves in the new streaming show Clean Break , about a surfer recovering from a nasal decongestant addiction. You can read Skroll’s review of Clean Break here .

Maybe El’s video is an easter egg. Internet sleuths have begun picking apart the influencer’s latest post for clues, but the reactions are SENDING us!

cobrakyle23

it’s giving cloverfield

xMeggyx

I’ve given up on believing anything I hear from these “influencers.” They’ll do anything to sell a product. Can’t wait to see the brand of flashlights or LED headlights she’s trying to promote in a week. Also, a terrible actress.

jason52612456

If aliens come to earth and she’s the first person they make contact with, they’d just go back to their planet

alltherave @jason52612456

lmao or they’d try to sleep with her and then go home. She’s hot.

Whether El’s launching a new creative venture or is suffering a public meltdown, we’re intrigued to see what she does next! Maybe her next collab should be with the hit Skroll series The Out There ??

[Embedded video: “The Out There Episode #15: Swamp Girl Walks with the Skunk Ape”]

El Martin has declined to comment for this story. Skroll News will update this article as it develops.