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This world is funny sha. Just saw a guy gifting one girl today on Tiktok live like say hin gift button dey malfunction on hin own.

We now have a new brand of entrepreneurship, and it has started to spread like a pandemic on Tiktok. These days I can't even watch TikTok Live anymore without this reputable business people doing their... business... or whatever it is. Especially the ladies! Tiktok streamers girls have mastered the art of doing absolutely nothing. They just have to sit on their musty arse and wait for some jobless, effeminate chums to come online and throw hefty cash gifts for no discernable reason.

I remember when people needed to have actual talent or skill to become famous and gain an organic following. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the simps and bums who flock to these pages to shower thousands of dollars in virtual gifts. Money that you will save and take care of yourself and your family, you're throwing it on a liability online, and she's making more than the 70k minimum wage in a single week. Meanwhile, your 2:1 or 2:2 certificate, and roughly sixty-hour workweek cannot even afford you more than three buckets of garri and 1 liters of fuel. Some of you can't even recharge #500 card for your guy, but you will put a girl you don't know on weekly stipend if they don't hold you. Men na we dey do ourselves. Chai.

When will you negative IQ bums realize that these girls are just beggars on the streets of social media? Is it because they can afford make-up and data? I give kudos to the girls though. Dem dey sell better market ontop the heads of wastemen that don't even know their worth. The highest they'll do is tell you "thank you," in the most fake, over the top manner. Sometimes they won't even bat an eye, or they will barely acknowledge the gift in a tone of boredom, especially if the gift is not up to par, blissfully unaware of the possibility that the hapless gifter just spent his weekly savings on her. No be say any of these guys will EVER get the opportunity to press her, talk less of dating or sleeping with her. Is that life?

At least the beggars you see on the roadside are visibly lacking the amenities and privileges that the rest of us enjoy. They are homeless, broke, don't have any clothes etc. Some of them look so wretched, you can't differentiate them from the ones roaming mad on the street.

But what about the beggars online? You'll see them lying down on soft squishy foam mattresses, in proper climate-controlled rooms, often in pajamas or something fanciful enough to turn your watery brain upside down, getting paid to occasionally mumble "thanks for joining my stream" effortlessly, while eating or watching TV. And you lay there on your smelling foam wey no get bedsheet. You are owing landlord. You are owing Fairmoney. NEPA don disconnect you 7 months ago, you dey go connect yourself back for midnight. You were supposed to be reading for JAMB, you were busy saying sweet nothings to a girl online that doesn't even know what you look like. Now you scored 23 in JAMB and the chicken has come home to roost.

Even if you have money sef, wetin you gain? The point of spending money on something is that you can get something in return. What are you getting from these hoes? Is it the companionship? Is it discussion? Are they therapists? Are you that lonely, that you have to pay for people to talk to you?

Your loneliness is what is feeding these online beggars. You think they give a damn about you? You're paying for an imaginary friend or girlfriend, but this imaginary girlfriend has a dude living there with giving her daily pipe for free and 2.7 million other imaginary friendships to maintain. Your village people are using your destiny to play ten ten and you don't know.

Help yourself! If you don't help yourself, nobody will help you!

GodOfBanter:
➜Even if you have money sef, wetin you gain? The point of spending money on something is that you can get something in return. What are you getting from these hoes? Is it the companionship? Is it discussion? Are they therapists? Are you that lonely, that you have to pay for people to talk to you?
Your loneliness is what is feeding these online beggars. You think they give a damn about you? You're paying for an imaginary friend or girlfriend, but this imaginary girlfriend has a dude living there with giving her daily pipe for free and 2.7 million other imaginary friendships to maintain. Your village people are using your destiny to play ten ten and you don't know.
Help yourself! If you don't help yourself, nobody will help you!

I expected you to finish up by admitting that the true problem here is psychological and even suggest that these folks use some of that money they give away to seek well-needed professional mental health therapy.

Kobojunkie:
I expected you to finish up by admitting that the true problem here is psychological and even suggest that these folks use some of that money they give away to seek well-needed professional mental health therapy.

Clearly you got the point. What else do you want me to do? Include a full DSM-5 assessment and treatment plan?

Thanks for contributing anyway.

GodOfBanter:
➜Clearly you got the point. What else do you want me to do? Include a full DSM-5 assessment and treatment plan? Thanks for contributing anyway.

What point?

GodOfBanter:
....Your village people are using your destiny to play ten ten and you don't know. Help yourself! If you don't help yourself, nobody will help you!

Is this your point?

Kobojunkie:
What point? Is this your point?

No, that's not the point. That's just evidence of your cringey attempts at being ironic.

The point is that there are better things to do in life, than spend money on a lady you don't know for no other reason than she's fine, or she's talking to you, or she asked you to. If loneliness is your problem, you're better off seeking therapy.

Are we good now?

GodOfBanter:
➜No, that's not the point. That's just evidence of your cringey attempts at being ironic.
The point is that there are better things to do in life, than spend money on a lady you don't know for no other reason than she's fine, or she's talking to you, or she asked you to. If loneliness is your problem, you're better off seeking therapy.
Are we good now?

If that is really your point, then one could argue these folks are paying money for entertainment much the same way sports fans pay sports professionals for the same. So, who decides what is better for whom? You?

Kobojunkie:
If that is really your point, then one could argue these folks are paying money for entertainment much the same way sports fans pay sports professionals for the same. So, who decides what is better for whom? You?

The difference is value and delusion.

Sports fans know they're customers. They're watching to get entertainment, and there is entertainment value in every sport.

Online beggars or "streamers" aren't doing squat to keep you entertained. If you're happy or not, it's your damn business. And most TikTok gifters also genuinely think that they're building relationships with people who see them as walking ATMs. Go watch videos on YouTube. There are countless of them delving into this bizarre parasocial phenomena. People who subscribe to OF are arguably better, even though it's still a lil' dumb, because why you would pay to jack it when you can just pay a visit to one Amaka outside on the street?

If you want to see me as a dictatorial arbiter because I'm pointing out the absurdity of the concept, then it's your prerogative. Everybody has free will. I'm not stopping anybody from paying money to online beggars. I'm just saying that it's daft and brain dead, and I'm still waiting for someone to tell me why it's not daft and brain dead. If you want to keep giving hard earned money to online beggars who do nothing to earn it, na you sabi.

GodOfBanter:
➜The difference is value and delusion. Sports fans know they're customers. They're watching to get entertainment, and there is entertainment value in every sport.
Online beggars or "streamers" aren't doing squat to keep you entertained. If you're happy or not, it's your damn business. And most TikTok gifters also genuinely think that they're building relationships with people who see them as walking ATMs. Go watch videos on YouTube. There are countless of them delving into this bizarre parasocial phenomena. People who subscribe to OF are arguably better, even though it's still a lil' dumb, because why you would pay to jack it when you can just pay a visit to one Amaka outside?
If you want to see me as a dictatorial arbiter because I'm just pointing out the absurdity of the concept, then it's your prerogative. Everybody has free will. I'm not stopping anybody from paying money to online beggars. I'm just saying it's daft and brain dead. If you want to keep giving hard earned money to online beggars who do nothing to earn it, na you sabi.

I am sorry, but this is you trying very hard to sell us your delusion there.

Kobojunkie:
I am sorry, but this is you trying very hard to sell us your delusion there.

Call it whatever you want, but at least I'm not charging you to read my posts, unlike your jobless Tiktokpreneurs. 🤣🤣

GodOfBanter:
➜Call it whatever you want, but at least I'm not charging you to read my posts, unlike your jobless Tiktokpreneurs. 🤣🤣

Look, those who subscribe to sports entertainment are no different from those who shower those tiktokpreneurs with favors, from the point of view of an outsider like myself. These people are people who use these as outlets for whatever issues they may be privately needing to deal with. Simply insisting that people no longer patronize them because of your private issues against them is silly.

Kobojunkie:
Look, those who subscribe to sports entertainment are no different from those who shower those tiktokpreneurs with favors, from the point of view of an outsider like myself. These people are people who use these as outlets for whatever issues they may be privately needing to deal with. Simply insisting that people no longer patronize them because of your private issues against them is silly.

The difference here is that I'm trying to save people money, and you are defending people's right to financial self-sabotage. 🫣 In your mind, you're a humanitarian abi? You're defending free will. Don't worry. When you don finish, maybe we should start encouraging gambling addicts to double down on their efforts. 😂 We can even encourage alcoholics to keep up with the drinking. After all, they are also using these things as outlets for their own issues. 🤓

GodOfBanter:
➜The difference here is that I'm trying to save people money, and you are defending people's right to financial self-destruction. 🫣
➜ In your mind, you're a humanitarian abi? You're defending free will.
➜ Don't worry. When you don finish, maybe we should start encouraging gambling addicts to double down on their efforts. 😂
➜ We can even encourage alcoholics to keep up with the drinking. After all, they are also using these things as outlets for their own issues. 🤓

1. You are saving them money by casting down their form of entertainment as being worthless by standards by your standards, right?

2. Ah! You have a problem with folks having this free will, is that it?

3. Addictions— a psychological disorder— are born of mental problems and do not require encouragement since those afflicted struggle to control those urges, to begin with.

4. Alcohol in itself is not a problem, as many can healthily consume it without loss of control. Nothing wrong with drinking every weekend to release stress accumulated over the week, or something. Addiction— a psychological disorder— is instead the issue when a person is unable to directly control his or her urges.

Kobojunkie:
1. You are saving them money by casting down their form of entertainment as being worthless by standards by your standards, right?

I'll start taking you seriously when you demonstrate the entertainment value in watching other people do nothing but talk and whine on stream.

2. Ah! You have a problem with folks having this free will, is that it?

Free will is good. Common sense is also good. Having one without the other is exactly how you end up funding a stranger's luxury lifestyle for no tangible reason, while your own finances suffer. It's called priorities. 🙃

3. Addictions— a psychological disorder— are born of mental problems and do not require encouragement since those afflicted struggle to control those urges, to begin with.

You're the one who's insisting that people should keep feeding into their unhealthy, one-sided parasocial relationships, so just between the two of us, who's really enabling here? 🤔

4. Alcohol in itself is not a problem, as many can healthily consume it without loss of control. Nothing wrong with drinking every weekend to release stress accumulated over the week, or something. Addiction— a psychological disorder— is instead the issue when a person is unable to directly control his or her urges.

There's a huge difference between getting a drink for yourself and choosing to spend your last cash on virtual gifts to please a total stranger who has done absolutely nothing to deserve it, apart from moping into the camera, looking pretty, making boring conversations and indirectly begging for gifts. 🤦🏽 I can understand streamers who play games, crack jokes, preach, host debates, draw art or do a myriad of other interesting stuff. But these plastic hoes with no personality or gimmicks, who just sit there and whine, what have they done to earn your money? 🤔 And honestly, it wouldn't be an issue if there weren't millions of these types of streamers on Tiktok. I'll give credit to your position if you can give me just one reason. Go ahead, I'll wait. 😒

GodOfBanter:
➜I'll start taking you seriously when you demonstrate the entertainment value in watching other people do nothing but talk and whine on stream.
➜ Free will is good. Common sense is also good. Having one without the other is exactly how you end up funding a stranger's luxury lifestyle for no tangible reason, while your own finances suffer. It's called priorities. 🙃
➜ You're the one who's insisting that people should keep feeding into their unhealthy, one-suded parasocial relationships, so just between the two of us, who's really enabling here? 🤔
➜ There's a huge difference between getting a drink for yourself and choosing to spend your last cash on virtual gifts to please a total stranger who has done absolutely nothing to deserve it, apart from moping into the camera, looking pretty, making boring conversations and indirectly begging for gifts. 🤦🏽 I have more respect for streamers who play games, crack jokes, preach, host debates, draw art or do a myriad of other interesting stuff. But these plastic hoes with no personality or gimmicks, who just sit there and whine, what have they done to earn your money? 🤔 And honestly, it wouldn't be an issue if there weren't millions of these types of streamers on Tiktok. I'll give credit to your position if you can give me just one reason. Go ahead, I'll wait. 😒

1. As I already pointed out earlier that from where I sit, those who watch TikTok-ers are no different from football fans and the lot. I don't see why I need to demonstrate anything to you for what is your choice of entertainment.

2. That in bold is the exact same thing that football fans and celebrity fans also do. And you seem to be arguing that this commonsense for all has to be according to your standards. 😂😂😂😂

3. I have done nothing of that since my very first comment to you. You are instead the one who attempted to classify this as a village people issue. 😂😂😂😂

4. You and I do not have the power to pick and choose for others what they can or cannot watch. So long as no law is being violated, and they aren't being cajoled by anything, then you are simply making noise? As I tried, however, to point out in my first comment to you, if your worry is instead that some of them instead indulge out of needing to quell the loneliness inside of them, then suggesting they seek professional mental help from a licensed therapist would be the best suggestion you could give. Assuming you know better about how people should or should not spend their money exposes you as merely a noise maker looking for attention.

Kobojunkie:
1. As I already pointed out earlier that from where I sit, those who watch TikTok-ers are no different from football fans and the lot.

Then you're not sitting at the right vantage point. Stand up and look for somewhere else to sit. 🤣

I don't see why I need to demonstrate anything to you for what is your choice of entertainment.

This argument has never about my "choice of entertainment." Our main focus here is people bankrupting themselves for the sake of parasocial relationships. Your constant bobbing and weaving around this central point is more impressive than any dance I've seen on Tiktok. 🤧

2. That in bold is the exact same thing that football fans and celebrity fans also do.

Football fans buy game tickets to watch Messi play football, not sit down on the pitch and chew groundnut. People buy tickets to Drake tours to watch him perform his own music. You have no point here. Rest. 🥱

And you seem to be arguing that this commonsense for all has to be according to your standards. 😂😂😂😂

I'm not basing anything on my standards though. I am basing my statements on basic financial literacy, which you seem to lack.

3. I have done nothing of that since my very first comment to you.

Cheap lies.

You are instead the one who attempted to classify this as a village people issue. 😂😂😂😂

My "village people" remark was just me using colorful language in a larger argument about financial self-sabotage - which you've been consistently ignoring to focus on needless semantics. Obviously the metaphor flew swiftly over your bald head. 🤦🏽

4. You and I do not have the power to pick and choose for others what they can or cannot watch.

Nobody is trying to dictate or legislate what people watch. What is being criticized here is the content that they willingly pay for.

So long as no law is being violated, and they aren't being cajoled by anything, then you are simply making noise?

Laws are not the only boundary that defines wise behavior. For example, there's no law that says we should not eat sand. But I definitely won't recommend that it should be done. Again, common sense. 🤌🏽

As I tried, however, to point out in my first comment to you, if your worry is instead that some of them instead indulge out of needing to quell the loneliness inside of them, then suggesting they seek professional mental help from a licensed therapist would be the best suggestion you could give.

So you DO agree they need therapy. After all this roundabout whataboutism, you've now ended up circling right back to my original talking point - that THEY NEED HELP. That this behavior stems from psychological issues. Well, congratulations on taking the scenic route to reach the exact same destination I started at. 🤦🏽😂

Assuming you know better about how people should or should not spend their money exposes you as merely a noise maker looking for attention.

I don't claim to know better than most people when it comes to spending, but I can identify relatively wasteful spending when I see it.

Simps are part of the reason why our economy is in shambles. Facts.

It all boils down to IQ. Men are actually more attracted to women with low IQ than women who are intelligent.

Women who are intelligent knows being unnecessarily exposed on the internet is harmful, so they don't beg for cash gifts... Instead they use their creativeness to act and attract wealthy.

For the women with low IQ, the case isn't the same.