Jillian Lavian, known by her TikTok name, Spritely, went viral after she posted a breakup video of her three-and-a-half year relationship in August 2024.

Davis had read the 19th-century short story of the same name but “I was a little bored by it. I kept nodding off,” he admits, adding that it was late at night when he read it. As he made his way ...