The biggest takeaway from the unfortunate events of the last few days is simple, many of you should not be taken seriously. You stand for nothing, and it would be okay if you didn’t try to bully people who disagree with you. I’ve always known that “right” and “wrong” on this app depend entirely on who is speaking, but watching people flip-flop in real time, abandoning the same values they use to crucify others, has been unpleasant to witness. It should make you rethink how you behave here, and the grace you so easily withhold from others simply because you don’t know them personally or dislike them. Human beings are far too complex and layered to be reduced to a single label. This is why the refusal to apply nuance, and the eagerness to cast aspersions over one tweet you dislike, will always be seen as foolish to me. You called women expressing their opinions “pick me,” only to be caught in 4K auditioning to be picked, and being treated as less than human by questionable men, all for the cheap price of validation and proximity, while loudly claiming to “decenter men.” Meanwhile, the women you brand as “pick me” or “patriarchy princesses” have never been seen stooping that low. It’s painful to imagine working so hard to be your own woman only to end up profiled as a groupie to a questionable man😪 Watching this spectacle, hasn’t just been entertainment for me. It’s also forced me to think about how easily we ascribe credibility to tweets that give us the dopamine hit we crave and how much we worship money and access. It would make sense if we were willing to work for it, but the allure of what seems easy is too hard to resist, especially in a country like Nigeria. Look inward, all of you, men and women alike. You don’t need a humiliating spectacle to force a reset. What has happened in the last few days should be more than enough.