History Film / NotOkay

* JerkassHasAPoint: Harper is rude, smug, and by her own admission jealous of the attention Danni gets after the attack, but she's [[spoiler: the only one of Danni's colleagues who notices something suspicious about Danni's story. When confronting her with the evidence, Harper reminds Danni people were killed in the attacks]].
* JerkassRealization: [[spoiler: As her lie falls apart and the world turns on her, Danni is forced to acknowledge to a support group that she wasn't that nice a person before this all started and even worse once she got famous. Notably, a member of the group calls her out on "you're saying you learned but at the end of the day you're a privileged white girl who thinks she's the main character." Danni admits that's right in how she's not sure if she really has grown and learned anything from this. The final scene does have her affected by hearing Rowan's poem railing on her lies and leaving the auditorium in tears at how Rowan is a true survivor while Danni was only pretending to be]].

Discovering that she gains extreme attention given her apparent survival, Danni decides to keep up the lie. Attending a trauma survivors support group, she meets teenage activist Rowan Aldren (Creator/MiaIsaac), who survived a school shooting, befriending her as a supposed fellow survivor of violence. Danni then writes an article on her pretended experience and starts a Twitter hashtag, [[TitleDrop #IAmNotOkay]], to help people vent about things they're dealing with. Growing closer to Rowan and dogged by her skeptical coworker Harper (Creator/NadiaAlexander), Danni's lies continue piling up as she gains more attention and become increasingly unsustainable under the weight of scrutiny and even her own guilt.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Danni ends the movie as a pariah without a friend in the world, fired from her job, her employment prospects incredibly bleak, unable to find a boyfriend or husband, forced to move in with her parents with her mother hating her, too, getting death threats and hated by seemingly the entire world, her future uncertain at best, her relationship with Rowan completely unsalvageable, and unsure if she's even ''really'' learned anything. It's implied she's learned more than her self-loathing will let her admit, but any change for the better will come too late because [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten she'll forever be known as the girl who faked being in a terrorist attack for attention]]. She'll likely have to live with crippling guilt in silence and with no opportunity to make amends for what she did, because any sincere attempt to talk about or own up to it, including an apology to Rowan or any genuine survivor of the Arc de Triomphe attack, will likely be seen as an insincere grifter's narcissistic pity party, as it was in the online shaming victims group. Meanwhile Rowan herself has to cope with her trust having been grossly abused and might also have to worry about her own cause, already an uphill battle because of the inherent political minefield, being undermined by association with Danni.]]

-->-- '''Danni Saunders'''

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Danni's article "Why Am I So Sad" has her complain about living in Bushwick (because she can't get a good matcha in that neighborhood), not having her own office (even though as a photo editor, she doesn't merit getting one), and lamenting that she missed 9/11 (she was on a cruise when it happened, and was disappointed she couldn't share the experience with others who went through it). To sum up, she's an attention seeker who doesn't understand how awful certain things are. It also neatly explains why she's hated and widely mocked prior to her fake survivorship.

* GoodParents: Danni’s dad is shown to be very loving to his daughter. [[spoiler: After Danni reveals the truth, he hugs her in a attempt to comfort her, in spite of the fact that he has been receiving death threats at work because of Danni.]]