There were minutes left before Jolyne was born, and Mike Milfort had another priority: beating his wife in an aura battle.
Mike is a Haitian content creator who lives in Chile, has more than 2 million followers, and makes half the internet laugh with his family. When his wife was about to give birth, he challenged her right there, in the delivery room, to an ‘aura farming’ competition: a practice invented by Generation Z of posing, making gestures, or adopting attitudes that the public rewards with imaginary charisma points, as if it were a real-life video game.
She didn’t know whether to laugh, cry, or look at him with a ‘Seriously, now?’ expression. But that’s how their daughter came into the world: amid contractions, nervous laughter, and a dad who didn’t miss the chance to act goofy even at the most important moment of his life.
