Content Creation M@dness!

This period is the time when people will do almost anything to chase clout and create content😔. 

They will lie, fabricate stories, go nude on social media, filter their looks, alter their appearance with AI, and do all sorts of things just for traffic, engagement, and 15 minutes of fame.

Content creation has, in many cases, become an idol!

I went to pick up my children from school and, just outside their gate, we saw a young woman filming a video selfie while walking in the middle of the road. I seized it as a teachable moment and said to my children:

"You see what that young woman is doing? Please don't do it. If a car was coming in front of her or behind her at high speed, she might not even notice. It could hit her and possibly kill her simply because she chose to record a video while walking in the middle of the road."

And who knows? Maybe she was even on TikTok Live. Going live on TikTok is fast becoming a thing. And I hear that's the one of the ways Nigerians can make money from TikTok. Hmm...so clout and money...double wahala!

Let me give you a few examples of the content creation craziness so you can see that this trend is becoming an epidemic and I'm not making this up one bit. I recently came across all these stories:

One Chef T (Tolani Taiwo-Osikoya) criticized some female private chefs for dressing revealingly while working, saying the trend is becoming excessive. She expressed concern that some content creators use provocative dressing to attract attention and go viral rather than focusing on their professional skills.

A TikToker named Mirabel, who went viral for claiming she was r@ped and violently assaulted in her Ogun State apartment, later admitted to social critic VeryDarkMan (VDM) that her story was fabricated.

A young man, Qawiyu, was arrested after raising a false alarm about a bandit attack in Ogun State. He reportedly admitted that he did it to gain TikTok followers.

One lie after another.

The frightening thing is that many people no longer ask, "Is this true?" They only ask, "Is this trending?"

So, my dear, believe everything you see and hear online to your own detriment.

Let this be one more reason why you shouldn't build your life around social media. Much of what you see online is carefully curated, exaggerated, edited, filtered, or outright fabricated. It is designed to provoke emotion, keep your attention, and influence your thinking.

Notice how a large percentage of the news we consume is negative? You will hardly hear anything about God in mainstream media. I believe this is intentional. The masses are constantly being fed fear, outrage, controversy, and bad news because negativity captures attention and keeps people engaged.

These are my personal thoughts, and I hold them strongly.

If you are spiritually sensitive, you will recognize that there is a battle for the minds of men. The enemy understands that what consistently enters your eyes and ears eventually shapes your thoughts, desires, beliefs, and actions.

Nothing is neutral.

There is always an agenda behind what competes for your attention.

The target is not just your screen time. The target is your mind, your values, your convictions, your peace, and ultimately your soul.

So choose wisely what you listen to, what you watch, who you follow, and what you call entertainment. Whether you realize it or not, these things influence you.

I kid you not. 

"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it."  - Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)

"Test all things; hold fast what is good." - 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (NKJV)

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers..." - Ephesians 6:12 (KJV)

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