Love, Comment, Subscribe

Lily Wang has built a following as a beauty vlogger, but her channel has plateaued and the million-subscriber milestone she needs feels permanently out of reach. Tobin Bui, a gaming YouTuber from the same Southern California hometown, has the audience she lacks and a problem of his own: nobody, least of all his family, takes what he does seriously.

A cross-channel collaboration solves both problems on paper. In practice it means spending weeks in each other's company, back among the high-school friends they never quite left behind, performing a chemistry that stops feeling like performance.

Love, Comment, Subscribe opens Cathy Yardley's Ponto Beach Reunion series — a contemporary romantic comedy about internet fame, hometown ties and the gap between the version of yourself you post and the one you actually are.