Mehn, each time I come across the actions and risks people take to go viral on social media, I question myself: are these people really mad, or gradually going to the stage of madness?

Last year, I had to block a page because I couldn't control my anger whenever I came across the page. It was a page of couples who danced almost naked online with just pants and a bra. Yeah, the man wears only pants (underwear) while the woman wears pants and a bra. The worst and most irritating thing is that the body of the woman has worn out a lot, and she unashamedly exposes her wrinkled, very dark spots on her fair skin for the world to see. Her style of content blew her up, and her content gets to almost everyone fond of watching comic things online.

"Don't they have children?
Even if they don't have children, don't they have relatives to call them to order?"

I would ponder on these questions, and funnily, a lot of people blast them negatively in their comment sections, but just as we know it, the traffic they get from people raining insults on them keeps making them popular.

Also, after all these hate words towards them, people just have to laugh it off, too, because the traffic they're getting on social media is paying them a lot and putting food on their table.
That's the absolute truth about how people, social media and earnings are right now. As long as money is coming out, people would want to do anything, be it positive or negative, in order to go viral. No one cares about the repercussions of the actions.

A few months ago, a young guy made a post on X, claiming that a popular music artist in Nigeria is not the owner of her first baby because the wife cheated. That post blew the guy to fame. Or maybe not famous to the extent of matching the fame of the top celebrities in the country, but the guy really got viral, and the number of followers on X increased. The music artist didn't take it likely; he was arrested and charged with billions of naira in court. Although some activists came for his rescue, I'm very sure he would not dare to take that path again in his life.

But who can we blame?

No one is to be blamed because in this current era, where survival is the utmost priority of a man's life, anybody is willing to do anything to hit fame and earn a lot of money. Most of us who still see some weird actions people take to go viral, are seeing them like that because we have not really been opportune or pushed to do so. Yeah, I won't lie, when a "decent" person gets pushed to the wall or gets the opportunity to hit a 'button' to go viral, that person would do that as long as the act is not so related to crimes. Abi na lie? Lol

Thanks for reading.

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