And in all manner of sincerity, this was the content of my heart as you’ve rightly said. I was replying to Tosin’s analysis with product deployment comparison while referencing Lagos life as the example, before I related it to attention and effect of collective action for a better Nigeria with such high numbers.
Abi am I a fool to ask every other individuals to stop having various other fun/escapisms when it is NOT a good enough number to act on for succinct result - the highest amount of patrons you can see in a club is max, 500 to 1k people, and in a rave, max, 5k people. What exactly can such numbers achieve for me to speak on it or reference it for collective action <even though it is still valid to> compared to 2m+ people engaged with a foking game <is your business if you hold on the F word there> (which I incessantly kept referencing with my reference in the image attached to this tweet. So reading my tweet and telling me “I am jealous”, sincerely confirms the arrogance I have towards the average Nigerian who puts absolutely zero effort to think logically.
I wasn’t even kicking against the game (even though I still stand on my words that: the creator is selfish because not only did shalom ship her game {{and we can debate “creativity” on it please - I played sims 1,2,3 so I know how “easy” (easy for an intelligent dev like shalom and others who have also now shipped similar games - before una papa go say “you’re rubbishing her whatnot”) this replication can be, regardless of Shalom’s dev brilliancy, especially with the AI assistance - which rests heavy on customizing user interface and experience as it relates to a familiar geography (being Nigeria) - simply saying, the elements to have a POS by the roadside or fly to different cities, start a business, get a job, INCLUDING HAVING SEX (yes, you can have sex with your sim in the original sims <Google it> unless she’s probably not there yet with creative replication), are ALL already pre-existing tools Shalom only just needed to creatively customize for you people, and because this is not just only new to you people but also naija centered, we’ve chewed it to become something profound (it is literally the engagement we gave it, that made it “important” and not because the game itself was a groundbreaking innovation).}} after Eureka already did his (and probably because shalom is a fast creative dev in UK with easy access to Claude’s highest subscription design tool, she was like “oh, lemme build a game too” - she did, y’all loved it and it became viral”. And all of a sudden you people want to act oblivious of your inherent traits as Nigerians/Africans to be mediocrely copycats? Because, if the creators that made PH Lifestyle, Ilorin kinikan and other several others that have now shipped since Eureka did, were the ones that shipped first and started implementing suggested updates for users in real-time, we DEFINITELY know what the story would’ve rather been - which is directly related to what
@uzoart said about “short ceiling success”). I was more so directly referencing the creators after responding Tosin, by asking if they sincerely care enough about a better Nigeria, what and how exactly are they using their platforms which now has captured millions of Nigerians attention, to contribute to achieving that “better” ( because if I as a struggling individual in Nigeria wanted to build anything like I did, I’ll factor Nigerians betterment first, from the onset, not an after thought - our situation is now way too bad for irrelevant attention grabbing).