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Anon Pls.

2022 novel by DeuxMoi and Jessica Goodman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ116214287 ↗
Source-derived summary

Anon Pls. is a novel by the pseudonymous author DeuxMoi and Jessica Goodman. The novel is a work of autofiction and a retelling of the real-life DeuxMoi Instagram account, which anonymously publishes celebrity gossip on social media.

Plot

The book is a fictionalized retelling of the genesis of DeuxMoi. Cricket Lopez is a celebrity stylist assistant who posts celebrity gossip on an anonymous Instagram account. When the account experiences overnight success and goes viral on social media, she struggles to balance the increasing demands of the account with her work life.

Development history

Anon Pls. was developed as part of a larger attempt to monetize the DeuxMoi account. DeuxMoi came up with the initial concept and was connected to Jessica Goodman through their respective literary agents. While Goodman did much of the writing, she regularly collaborated with DeuxMoi to confirm various details about the celebrity world and to include references to real-world events.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Anon Pls.” is 2022 novel by DeuxMoi and Jessica Goodman. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Anon, novel and DeuxMoi, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current 153-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2022-11-08. For this dossier, Anon, novel and DeuxMoi is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “2022 novel by DeuxMoi and Jessica Goodman” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116214287. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anon Pls.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.