Fake Drama Or Real Remorse?

There are so many unintended bad side of social media and I feel very offended whenever I see people use the different platforms we have out there for terrible things which includes spreading lies and rumours, tarnishing people's image and promoting violence.

Portable, the zazu crooner is a typical example of celebrities who does this shit a lot. He calls out celebrity online, say dirty things about them and even curse them. I can’t remember if it’s this year or last year, when he insulted the whole of Ibadan because of his failed relationship with a lady from Ibadan and all these just makes me ponder how this guy became famous in the first place.

Over the years we have seen celebrities heavily involved in scandals and there are time I feel like we made the wrong person famous. I know being a celebrity can be challenging but it won’t cost many of these guys anything to be disciplined and well behaved but they do otherwise, causing problems here and there.

This is one reasons why I have blocked so many celebrities preventing their content from appearing on my feed, I just get tired of seeing their terrible stuff popping up from time to time.

Someone once told me that my actions was pointless because it doesn’t affect whoever I block and it occurred to me the reason people using the social media for terrible things don’t see the need to stop. A lot of people do not just like and watch their videos, they go on to share and even join livestream where nothing significant is happening so how do we expect them to quit when we keep empowering them?

---

There are individuals (not celebrities) who are also involved and the most annoying part of all is how they use the social media to clean the mess they committed whether online or offline.

They mount the camera, sit in front and start pretending to be sorry whereas they aren’t. It has become a common phenomenon with many people wondering if these apologies carries any weight whatsoever.

Whenever I see those videos, I ask myself a few questions like are these guys truly feeling remorseful or just trying to win people hearts? It’s hard to tell because you can just reach out to someone you offended but why bring it online? Those private or physical apology actually carries more weight and I want to believe the reason why they use the social media for apology is simple- more people can see the content disgusing as an apology and it earns them more engagement because there are those who will still share their irrelevant thoughts and ideas.

This engagement of a thing is even why many people stage their fight online when nothing is actually happening, they want traffic and once they are done milking their fans resources, they switch to apologise and that’s another medium to get people engaging- many of us just want to get the full story about happy ending.

The artist I mentioned earlier enjoys doing that rubbish just to put himself on the spotlight always and at the end of the day, he will apologise saying he was just being natural with his feelings. He hold no grudges and respect the person he had insulted earlier. What’s the apology in that when you will still commit that same sin again not just once or twice?

I am not saying all the apologies we see across different social platforms are not genuine but what’s the essence of apologising when you will still commit the same sin again.

_{My Philosophy on Genuine Apologies.}

When I was still getting to know my wife, I unusually don’t take sorry from her. I barely get offended even when she does something I don’t like and the only thing I consider as a genuine apology is not committing that atrocity anymore. I will always tell her that not repeating that thing is the real apology so it’s not just about saying sorry not even speak of doing it online.

As much as it’s easy to just say I am sorry through a video, I will prefer doing it privately. I can express myself very well and even trash things out with whoever is involved.

_{Image Is Mine.}