The Hollywood of the South is just a 90-second highlight video hiding some deeply bizarre psychological realities. Pull back the green screen.
Real text, matched to the single-panel art that ships with every story. Here are two of the thirty.
When I was 17 I moved to Atlanta for college and the first day my roommate and I walk to a restaurant on the corner…
We ate tacos and I’m like we in the Peach state and they got peach cobbler & ice cream so umma get some. 🤷🏽♂️
When the waitress brought it to the table she sat it sideways with one spoon 🥄 pointing toward him and the other 🥄 toward me like we about to share it.
I requested an Uber and it found a driver who look like he was fresh outta jail, tattoos on his neck, and face, hair not cut and photo look like a mugshot 😳 — plus he had 0 reviews and only started 8 days ago.
So I cancelled it and requested another 😅
The next was an older black lady with 100’s of 5 star reviews and look like she was a librarian in her spare time 😌 — perfect 👌🏾
I get the buzz that my ride was arriving she pulled up glanced 😒😒😒 over at me and kept rolling 🚗🚗🚗.
30 secs later the Uber app buzzed🫨 again.
She sent me a message:
And I was 🤦🏽♂️
Thirty true stories of surviving the most cinematic city in America — with custom single-panel comic art you won't find on any feed.
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