Imagine waking up and finding your baby unwell, and your big coconut head clicks, “This is good content.” The baby isn’t responding, but the two semi-illiterate parents are busy taking videos to upload on their YouTube page. The woman even had the audacity to do makeup before going to the hospital.
This is the same couple that recorded their bedroom matters and even took us through the childbirth process without blurring a thing. After using their child’s sickness for content, the two mumus still had the audacity to tell Kenyans to go to their YouTube channel to watch the full video of their child struggling to fight for his life.
Unfortunately, mediocrity sells in our entertainment industry. By tomorrow morning, that video will have attracted thousands of views. It is Kenyans who support this madness. If we deny such people the limelight, they will be forced to create meaningful content.
A child’s health is not something to joke about, it is a very fragile matter. One day, while driving to school with my daughter, we saw a woman running barefoot, carrying a sick child. She stopped the car in front of us and jumped in without even knowing the owner.
I later discovered she was my neighbour from another block. Sadly, the child later died due to a blood infection. That woman had no time to think about wearing shoes, let alone applying makeup. All she could think about was saving her son’s life.
Unfortunately, Sayuni had already decided his fate. When I see stupid couples like Kabi wa Jesus using their children’s predicaments to create content, I sit back and wonder, where did conscience and humanity go?