A few weeks ago a dad tweeted that his son, Gabriel, had come home from school upset. His love of woodwork wasn't deemed cool and he only had six Instagram followers, something, in teenage world, is a big deal.
So his father, a TV director, tweeted hoping to get his son a few more followers. What has followed is one of the most heart-warming and beautiful stories you'll read this year.
In a Twitter thread his dad explained how he tweeted and "got on cooking tea". But then his followers crept up to 6,000, then 33,000 and up and up and up. Orders for his wooden bowls and chopping boards grew to 20,000. Something, the family worked out, would take him 32 years to complete.
