Why My Reach Dropped Overnight — Part One
Segun Iwasanmi@iwasanmisegun212159
12 days ago
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The Algorithm Of Heaven's Media — Chapter Eleven
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Christian didn't delete the post. His thumb hovered over the screen for a long time, but it never moved. He told himself it wasn't a lie. He had written those words himself, and he had believed them when he wrote them, and people were finding comfort in them.
What kind of person takes away another person's comfort? He locked his phone, dropped it on the wooden table, and tried to sleep. Sleep, which had always come to him easily, did not come that night.
In the morning, Adeyemi Federal University of Education had that particular energy it gets when exams are near and everyone is pretending to be fine. Christian walked through the Quadrangle with his bag on his back and books he wasn't sure he had read well enough, and something heavier than the books sitting inside his chest.
He couldn't explain it properly, only that he felt like a man wearing somebody else's clothes and walking slowly so nobody would notice the fit was wrong. The fellowship members in one hundred level greeted him differently these days. Some of them looked at him the way you look at a pastor whose sermon you liked but whose personal life you suspect is complicated.
The WhatsApp channel had grown without him asking it to. What started as a small corner he created for the fellowship, a place to drop thoughts after morning devotion, had swelled. Fifty members, then eighty, then one hundred and twenty. Somewhere along the line, someone screenshotted one of his posts and shared it to a bigger group, and from there it had scattered like harmattan dust, landing on the status updates of people he had never shaken hands with.
It was something that should have made him happy. And it did, a little. But Christian knew the truth, and the truth had a way of sitting beside you wherever you went.
To be continued… 🔥
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