COCAO

wanna be a footnote so bad

[Ab. @Abiodun0x]

This is a better reflection of which lab is actually building highly performing models.

[COCAO @abulaforever]

are*

[COCAO @abulaforever]

said it before and will say it again. the king and queen of the “olodo uprising” is temi and eazi. for them it is a choice and one they are making cos they can’t be bothered to find other ways to extract social-economic value from west africans.

[COCAO @abulaforever]

@idaratbn there is a name for it — answer engine optimization (aeo)

[COCAO @abulaforever]

in nigeria, food delivery isn't just a battle for consumers; there is a tightening squeeze on the supply side. what happens when a major supplier like chicken republic launches its own delivery app?

i shared some of my thinking on Not a Deep Dive: https://t.co/bj3dkJBcnv

[COCAO @abulaforever]

i didn’t miss my deadline but I’m so convinced i flopped

[COCAO @abulaforever]

or maybe i’m just mad at myself for missing this deadline.

[COCAO @abulaforever]

not sure why i followed him anymore.

[COCAO @abulaforever]

you’re too cynical to be taken seriously. you hardly generous to the other person’s point of view and i find that very weird for a person who is kind of illiterate about how this technology works and the market forces behind them.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Just call them a marketing hire! That’s what this person is for. They exist to go on podcasts and make up plausible analyses that always end up at “well I guess Anthropic replaces all jobs”

[COCAO @abulaforever]

missing this deadline might reverse all the progress I’ve been making with thinking positively 😭

[COCAO @abulaforever]

@kofookesola been using claude max. that’s why I don’t take a lot of “claude isn’t great” people seriously. they using pro which is pretty much a free version.

[COCAO @abulaforever]

@anjola_ja i agree that more people need to realise the majority of the world is “fine” with “slop”.

[COCAO @abulaforever]

“experimental” product. this is cool, especially as many consumer apps are moving to chat interfaces in naij. so why is he hedging?

[shollsman @shollsman]

You can now pay for things in Africa directly from your AI agent.

Today we’re introducing Paystack Index, the easiest way to check out with Paystack merchants through Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, and any AI agent.

At launch, you can:

→ Buy airtime: “Buy ₦500 MTN airtime for 080…”

→ Send money with @zapbypaystack: “Send ₦25k to…”

→ Buy food with @ChowdeckHQ: “Order jollof under ₦3k near me”

As more merchants join the Index, you’ll be able to do more, from booking rides and ordering groceries to paying utility bills, quickly and securely.

Paystack Index is now available in Nigeria, with more African markets coming soon.

An experimental product from Paystack and TSG Labs.

[Soon @soontechnology]

Hmmm. If anyone knows Rick Rubin's Polymarket username let us know. If his insights are good enough for Jay-Z and Johnny Cash, then maybe he's worth copy trading.

[COCAO @abulaforever]

@pixeldahn i think they believe what they are preaching.

[Osagie Alonge @OsaGz]

Thank you for this question. Allow me to explain;

What happened was music videos got too expensive to make, so artists genuinely got creative and started shooting low-budget video content that could serve as an alternate version of a music video while also working as content drivers on social media.

Visualisers are often made in multiple formats and lengths to fit each platform - 16:9, 9:16, etc. The results were better than chopping up the first 20 seconds of an official music video and dumping it on social. With their high engagement rate on social platforms, visualisers became a standard way to roll out music marketing campaigns.

New entrants came into the scene, young content creators who weren't necessarily music video directors but could handle an iPhone and use tools like CapCut to make social-media-first content, with platforms like YouTube as an afterthought.
It started gaining traction and, like anything innovative in the Nigerian music industry, it immediately got copied. A-list artistes and others funded by big labels or distros started shooting and posting visualisers, top quality too, and it worked just as well for them.

So the perception shifted. The thing is, an A-list artist won't go to a street corner or shoot from their bedroom for a visualiser. The established directors would still build sets, props, etc., but then brand it as a visualiser because that was the catchphrase that made the whole thing cool. And as usual, everybody started doing it, and now it's the standard.

While the line between an official music video and a visualiser is blurred today, a few artists still keep the distinction clear. A great example is how Blaqbonez and his creative team execute this. It seems the strategy behind what gets called an "Official Music Video" versus a "Visualiser" comes down to where it ranks in his marketing budget. The financial buckets determine the quality of the videos and, ultimately, what they're called.

For example: "Despacito" with Fola is tagged an "Official Visualiser" (shot by the young, upcoming @l3nsgod), while "Chanel", the biggest song in Nigeria right now, featuring Asake, is described as an "Official Music Video" (directed by @christivnsaint, a Hollywood Music Video Awards nominee, and Edgar Esteves, a collaborator with Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne, and Doja Cat).

PS: The term "Visualiser" is also often used to describe another style of visual - a looped 6 to 10-second video format mostly done by artistes established (or signed by labels) in the West (e.g, Beyonce, Asake).

[COCAO @abulaforever]

think i’m using tics incorrectly here.

[COCAO @abulaforever]

interesting how we use language to buffer cringe. say "shameless plug" before promoting yourself, and you instantly feel immune to the shame. say "embracing the cringe to post this," and a bid for attention feels like an act of bravery. visualizer is a cool word tho.

[Bizzleosikoya.eth @bizzleosikoya]

Cuz people were ashamed of spending small budget

[COCAO @abulaforever]

those tics used to annoy me until i understood why people do it. at least they are trying so meh.

[COCAO @abulaforever]

gauche

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

Mr Eazi and Temi Ajibade have 9 doctors on standby because they’re not sure which country they would be when the baby comes.