Nigeria’s economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom.

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restofworld.org/2024/nigeria-philanthropy-asher…

Several Nigerian content creators are mimicking American superstar YouTuber MrBeast by publishing charitable deeds as content online.

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Churbleyimyam a month ago

I'm against it because it is making money at the expense of others dignity. Also it is an appropriation and conflation of kindness and generosity with wealth, which undermines people's self-esteem and celebrates consumerism as a solution to the problem of poverty, which has deeper systemic roots.

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DragonTypeWyvern a month ago, edited a month ago

Is it worth being "against?" Seems like the kind of act that is best met with apathy at worst.

Oh, you gave some money away to make money. Okay?

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Churbleyimyam a month ago

For me it's not just about money. It's also about dignity and about universal human qualities. At best this kind of thing is an unfair trade and at worst it is material perversion of what is good about human nature.

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ZILtoid1991 a month ago

How long until they will be outed for similar abuses?

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sunzu a month ago

"philanthropy" is almost always done for scumming purposes...

do you think your daddy owners without do it without tax exemption and sheltering purposes?

fucking parasites...

these parasites just making it easily understandable to the masses that these people are milking the system. except the masses clearly not getting the lesson lol

we got what we deserve

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Jamyang a month ago

Reminds of a certain YouTuber whose name sounds similar to the fungus used for baking.

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dalakkin a month ago

Even though it's often just for content and publicity, I'd much rather have that type of content than for example rage bait

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[deleted] [OP] a month ago

They both are bad and would not get much views if exposed for their real nature, just to quote from the article:

“What creators like Omotayo are doing looks good on the surface, [but] it is ethically wrong because the aim of such content is to generate more engagement and followers, which in turn result in wider fame and sponsorship deals for the creator,” Suraj Olunifesi, an associate professor and social media researcher at the University of Lagos, told Rest of World. “These creators should rather be called business people and not philanthropists.”

Olunifesi compared stunt philanthropy creators to Big Tech companies: They “may allow their platforms to be used for free, but they, in turn, exploit users’ data for profit.”

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