Obituary

Moth Lamp was a photograph of a small, fluffy moth perched on a lampshade, gazing at the bulb with the devotion of a pilgrim at a shrine. The internet immediately gave it a personality: gentle, single-minded, hopelessly in love with the lamp. It spawned a genre of tender confessionals — 'I am but a moth, and you are my lamp' — used for crushes, hobbies, and every obsession that makes no sense. It died in 2019, the same year its fame peaked, outlived by every person who has ever stared at a crush with the pure, doomed affection of a moth. It was the most wholesome resident of this cemetery, and it went to the light.

Born

2018

Died

2019

Cause of death

Died of loving the light too much

Last sighting

A lampshade, somewhere warm, 2019

Resting place

Section G, Row 8 — the gentle plot

Category

photo