Author crying at empty book-signing event gets surprise happy ending: I was just going to quit last night
It was the little author who could.When California author Agnes Lee was seen crestfallen after no one showed up to her book signing event, TikTok sprang into action to give her story a better ending.A concerned bookstore employee chronicled this literary “Little Match Girl” saga in a video with over 9.4 million views on TikTok.The tear-jerking clip, shared by user @kawaiifilly, shows the solemn scribe glancing glumly around an undisclosed Barnes & Noble bookstore, seemingly devastated that no one turned up to her signing of her flagship children’s book, “Who Took My Stuff.”“I literally hate this shift,” the sympathetic bookstore worker wrote in the caption.
“It’s her first book and nobody has gone up to her.I have to watch this for five hours.
My heart is breaking.”That’s when the digital winds of fortune shifted in her favor.Kawaii tagged Lee in the viral video, inspiring sympathetic TikTok users to rally around the downtrodden author.“Agnes Lee the internet supports you and now to find this book or can we get in touch with her for an autographed one?” said one sympathizer.Another commiserator wrote, “Just ordered her book.”This outpouring of support prompted others to hail the power of social media.
“I love it when TikTok comes together to support people,” said one supporter.A fellow writer shared a similar experience of getting ghosted at an autograph event, declaring, “This was me exactly seven years ago.
“I became a number one New York Times best-seller this year and book signings look very different now.Stick with it! Your people are waiting to find you.”However, a few skeptics claimed that this tear-jerking video was none other than a promotional stunt.
“This marketing! Smart though,” claimed one commenter.“They probably filmed this before it even started.” Either way, the online moral support was more than just performative; it reportedly helped talk Lee out of pulling the ripcord on writing.“I just...