Long, long ago, on a hushed and snowy Monday night in December of 2019, a friend at my bar told me, apropos of nothing but my handwriting, that the hashtags #handwriting and #allthedifference were currently trending on something he called TikTok, which I’d never heard of.

Three hours later, however, I’d downloaded the app.

Some eight hours after that, I uploaded the following video — with the hashtags #handwriting and #allthedifference. Then I uploaded another.

Some twenty-two days later, after uploading several such videos with those same hashtags and (to my great surprise) going semi-viral, I deleted the app.

#ButWhatever

#IStillLikeTheseVideos

#WhichTookASurprisingAmountOfWork

#OneOfWhichIsParticularlySpecialToMe

#AndIt’sNotThisOne

#OrTheOtherone

#HandwritingIsImportant #Don’tLetItGo