I think the origin of the joke stems from his “You can't see me” gimmick, which he admitted stemmed from a dare with his brother - to do a botched move from 50 Centʼs “In The Club” music video.
Many Nigerians are horrible, as is seen in the quoted posts of this tweet.
How the hell can people take great joy in misconstruing a 15-year-old tweet just to justify foolishness?
How?!
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I saw this on my TL, and it was a snippet of an interview this actress did on a pod. Then I went to the comment section of this post, and at the risk of being called names, I am motivated to say that some Nigerians are horrible. The comments I read there makes me believe that...
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The sooner Nigerians recognize that we’re not the target audience of the Children of Blood & Bone movie, the sooner we can have peace and just take it for what it is: a Hollywood film.
It is so not based on Nigerians nor Yorubas, abeg. The woman wrote a book on Black American issues and used a poorly-researched knowledge of a Latino-Variant of the culture to set-up her fantasy world.
Personally, I think the intent of critiquing art should be for the sake of art, for the betterment of art. If it’s for art sake, you won’t seek to tear down the artists - lay insults, curses on them; It’s unintelligent. Analyze the art and keep it moving.
There have actually been quite a few attempts…
But the only truly meaningful ones are “Dazzling Mirage” and “Mortal Inheritance.”
Everything else just feels like poorly done parody.
A cultural critic (worth their salt) need not (repeatedly) proclaim or declare their "critiquetude."
The fruit shows in the (depth of the) work. As always.