Hunter of Cyclops

Everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle - Ludwig Von Mises

[Hunter of Cyclops @AchillesCreed]

@TamaraPosibi Congratulations to your dad! 🎉

[Jayson York @jaysonyork]

Justin, you need to delete this and post a public apology.

“I wish I could say I am surprised, but I am not.”

If you want credibility for your ministry and what you do, you have to repent of this.

[Hunter of Cyclops @AchillesCreed]

@IgwebuikeOdera No worry. Internet go tell you watin you wan hear 🤣

[Hunter of Cyclops @AchillesCreed]

@Iam_Marist Hmmm 👀

[Mrs. O 🌸 @Akustics]

Saying this with a 63% poverty rate is something

[Hunter of Cyclops @AchillesCreed]

@thuo_waithera 💯💯💯

[Douglas Kendyson @KendysonD]

Hi @jidesanwoolu, @hanneymusawa

I'm deeply disappointed in your @lirs_govng team hounding Selar in the name of claiming creator royalty taxes. I turn 30 in Oct and I've spent the last 10 years building Selar, so this is what the youth mean by policies being created to crush growing businesses. We are the pioneering and largest creator company in Nigeria (Africa actually), and instead of being supported by the government, the LIRS team is keen on trying to scapegoat us to set a precident.

Beyond the huge numbers seen in the headlines, we are still a young company just trying to make our mark for the creator economy in a country where we've never been supported once, we're literally a bootstrapped company. In 2025 alone, we've fulfilled our tax obligation in almost 9 figures and we've never missed out on any of our tax obligation over the years. You can check the records.

We are a software company, we make our ecommerce software available to our thousands of creators in not just Nigeria but 13 other African countries and for that, we earn a small commission of 4%, most of which goes to our payment provider. This is the same business as shopify, teachable, e.t.c There is no reason LIRS is hounding us for a backdated 5% royalty fee on all sales when we've clearly explained our line of business to them and shared everything to prove we are not a royalty based business.

What they're asking us to do is raise our pricing to extort these funds from our creators which is odd considering our creators still pay taxes on their income. No creator company in the world charges as high as even 5%.

Also, less payment gateway charges we get 1-3% max, so where do we pay backdated 5% fees from?

The government would have to decide if it wants the Nigerian creative economy to grow or not.

This conversation is important to me because we pioneered this industry of monetizing digital products online in Nigeria and today we host over 400k creators selling using our platform.

This is an opportunity for the government to show it's committment to making Nigeria work for young Nigerians especially in the creator economy.

Time and money we should be spending investing into our business and it's growth for the GDP of this nation is being spent in long back and forth.

We can't catch up with the west if this is what we're facing at home. Above everything else, disputes like this are distracting from the real work.

If anything, for all our CSR contributions to the education system in the country with our Smart Hustle Anti fraud initiative and our other efforts, we should be getting tax rebates, but we're not even asking for anything but to be left alone to build our business.

Thank you.

[Hunter of Cyclops @AchillesCreed]

For a crime against the State?

[Hunter of Cyclops @AchillesCreed]

Wow

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina).

[Osinachi Nwoko @OseyNwoko]

If Lagos is the 'center of excellence', it's either words have lost their meaning or I am not in Lagos.

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

Too much minimalism will have your apartment looking like a Psych ward.

[Zariyi Yusuf Madaki @ZariyiYusufu]

Are you aware that by every parameter of humanitarian crisis Katsina is at a much worse state than Palestine?
Do you think the life of a fair skinned Muslim in the Middle East is better and more deserving of sympathy than your kins’ in Katsina?

[Hunter of Cyclops @AchillesCreed]

@EconBreau @TomiwaDavid6 @Adedamola_Ogun @111marv Ha! My goodness

[Hunter of Cyclops @AchillesCreed]

Like play like play e dey happen.

[AutisticClips @AutisticClip]

Sneako declares New York an Islamic State

“Islam will be in every household. Inshallah, the whole world will become Muslim.”

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[Chancellor H. Middlebrow @fvr_oljd]

Scams of this nature definitely involves a wider group of people. No one who is directly involved or deemed negligent in their duties should be accorded the dignity of resignation. That's how a serious president makes a statement. But Tinubu is docile.

[Bunmi 👓 @oadefisayo]

Look, do yourselves a favor and just go through the 39 Articles, Westminster Confession or the Heidelberg Catechism in order to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Christian faith

Just do yourself that favor.

[Hunter of Cyclops @AchillesCreed]

My last article on Substack: https://t.co/5FXXPcavXy

[Gilmore🇳🇬 🇬🇧 @Gilmoorre]

Sell akara and get rich ! 🤦🏿‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Before reporting on the transgender case, NBC actually gave an effective trigger warning that it would be quoting the court in the use of terms like "biological male" and "biological female." https://t.co/bN4NImmroF This is how the press becomes a parody of itself.