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In fact, it’s a popular series that appears on ReelShort, an app where audiences can view on their smartphones over-the-top, dramatic tales reminiscent of soap operas called micro dramas.

Citigroup cautioned in a report this month that it is starting to see some red flags there, what they dubbed “potential micro bubbles building under the surface.”

There are cases where bank tellers themselves have been charged with fraud, cashing stolen checks, making micro withdrawals from accounts or even selling customer IDs to third parties.

Most had had previous, less severe incidents—or “micro concussions”—that while not enough to send them to a clinician, predisposed them to a bigger event, he said.

This developing plot line, however, stays in the background as customers turn up demanding to look like Beyoncé or requesting micro braids, a labor-intensive torture for overworked hands.