'This is how loss feels': how a Netflix animation about grief became a global phenomenon
If Anything Happens I Love You Credit: Netflix One of the year’s most unlikely phenomena on the video-sharing app TikTok saw 50 million people – and counting – recording themselves crying while watching a 12-minute animation. Not since the heart-wrenching opening sequence of Up have viewers been so undone by characters that originated from a pencil sketch. The extraordinary reaction to If Anything Happens I Love You, which sensitively depicts a couple struggling after losing their child in a school shooting, has astonished its creators, Michael Govier and Will McCormack. The pair met i...