Many online apologies hold no weight.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. Gone are the days when people said sorry and apologized because they meant it. These days, people just say what people want to hear, not because they mean it, nor will they turn a new leaf after apologizing to show that they were genuinely sorry for the wrong they did. Instead, they say sorry and go back to doing exactly what they apologized about a few minutes ago, showing how disingenuous apologies and sorries can be these days. They just look around and see what they stand to lose, and then they do what they have to do to keep it. These days, the word sorry somehow feels like a manipulation.

I have seen cases where a person tries to use the manipulative way of apologizing that is trending these days to get a friend to forgive them, and when they realize the friend is adamant about not doing so, they decide to show that from the very beginning the whole apologizing and acting like they were indeed sorry was just pretense, and they never meant it from the beginning. These days it's very difficult to differentiate between someone who is genuinely sorry and someone faking it because even those faking it do it better than those who are genuine. Saying sorry and apologizing means nothing if after saying that you will go back to doing the same things you just apologized for.

For me, many video apologies our celebrities or wannabes make online are just for clout and to catch engagement or maybe still keep their followers and not get canceled online because many of them depend on their followers and engagements for their pay to come in, so in most cases, a video apology is just for the money, for the engagement, and to keep their online family, as the more followers you have, the more room for bragging you get.

Like in the case of a famous TikToker, we all must have heard of Peller when the 30-day rant was ongoing and Nigerians were using almost all the social media platforms to rant and call out the government, including TikTok. He made a video saying things like Nigerians should take their rant elsewhere and not spoil things for them, as well as leave TikTok for them before Nigerians cause TikTok to be banned in the country, thereby causing them to lose their source of income. When Nigerians called him out and asked that he be unfollowed, he did not say a word, nor did he come out to apologize.

After about three days, he saw that Nigerians meant business and had lost over 100k, and he came to make an apology video saying he did not mean things the way Nigerians took it. We all know that if he had not seen that he was losing followers, and if nothing is done, he might lose even more followers. I trust he wouldn't have done that apology video. 9 out of 10 apology videos made online are for their own benefit and not because they care or are genuinely sorry for what they did; they know what they stand to lose if they fail to do so. They just make it to remain on the good side of the public; they don't mean it.

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