Comment Section - A Novel About A Viral Thread

Friday, 9:00 PM. Lagos influencer Ayo Coker offers ₦5 million for the biggest confession under his tweet. Anonymous accounts welcome. Nothing is too much.

By midnight, #ConfessionBox is trending in sixteen countries. A banker, a best man and a grandmother in Singapore all have something to confess. Then a tea page posts the one that breaks the internet: a daughter-in-law, her father-in-law, an Ikoyi mansion, and a video with the face of Nollywood’s favourite actress.

Twenty replies later, she’s guilty.

But the face was never the body. And the man reading every reply to pick a winner knows more than anyone in the thread.

Everybody has something to say. Few actually read.