“This message is to my colleagues, when my I mean colleagues I mean actors, filmmakers everybody. Guys this is 2025, let's be calming down. I am talking about this YouTube space, let’s not use our hand to spoil it. Netflix came everybody was excited, amazon came everybody was excited there was a lot of competition. Boom!!!
Netflix left; amazon left. Netflix is still buying but you know what I am talking about, investments there are none. That time there was Netflix and amazon you call somebody aah my money is 10 million naira; I am charging 10 million for one week. Now where are they, are they investing millions of dollars anymore? Even if they are buying, the licensing fee, how much? Let’s not use our hand to spoil this YouTube.
I was one of the few people that started YouTube, though there were marketers on YouTube way before me. I am saying YouTube in Lagos, premium films we were not a lot doing YouTube then and when we started YouTube it was a genuine place of love, we were not more than four even the names you see now were not even on YouTube.
We were not more than four, it was a place of love we would communicate between ourselves what we do, how do we go. We were not even interested in stars, we would pick people up and say okay let’s use this actor. We would use new actors and a lot of them are doing so well now.
It was all love. I remember when I made my first $200, it was from an old content that I had produced that I put on YouTube, I was so excited, for me to make $200 that means I can make $1000 and that is how the ginger started but now you see the whole madness for millions of views competition everywhere. It has become a toxic place. Actors hike their fees not minding how much people are losing. That it favors a few people does not mean it favors the whole industry; let's not use temporary gains to affect everything.
This is an industry that people crawled so that we can run, people founded this industry. So unfortunate that people don’t have respect for such people anymore. These are the same people that toiled so that you and I can eat. Competition between filmmakers, competition and toxicity everywhere. This was not how the YouTube industry was, we started it from a place of love. The way we used our hand to destroy Netflix and amazon we can do the same to YouTube. Yes, YouTube is a giant platform they cannot just pack up and go but there can be a lot of restrictions that will not favor filming on YouTube, they can decide to make joining you tube so hard. Yes, everybody can produce, but the influx of producers everywhere even in the diaspora. Every actor is a producer"
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ReplyDeleteNa the last paragraph you con hit the nail on the head, every actor is now producing movies, churning out movies that make no sense.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I don't waste my time watching their movies. Everyone is now a producer, churning out movies that are so predictable.
DeleteStart anything in Nigeria and boom....
ReplyDeleteE go turn to pure water.
DeleteWhen Netflix gives them money to invest in films, they use the money to build properties and cars, and pay fellow actors stipend. Their act has caught up with them. Nigerians with zero discipline, the only thing they are good at is to sit down and criticised government.
ReplyDeleteNawoo, It's not really easy for Nollywood industry.
ReplyDeleteLICIOUS BABE
Competition everywhere
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Copy copy Akaria, every actor now have a TV, anywhere you turn you see them soliciting subscribe to my YouTube channel. YouTube channels are now more than viewers which one we go watch.
ReplyDeletePoster digest SDK's reply throughly. Complicated indeed 🙄🙄🙄
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ReplyDeleteAs you de YouTube you no what others to be there or what exactly is the problem here?
ReplyDeleteThe last paragraph is spot on!
ReplyDeleteEvery actor is now a producer. Producing movies wey no get head and tail. It’s becoming toxic. I don’t even bother watching.
The copy and paste mentality to our business model needs to change. I don't know why Nigerian are not interested in doing something different. Whether na music, movies and the likes they copy, paste and recopy sef till it becomes irrelevant
ReplyDeleteTo those who are still watching movies, wetin una dey gain from those stale storylines???? SMH
ReplyDeleteThe problem with Nollywood is lack of originality. Most them are not even creative, Total nonsense. The only movies I can watch on YouTube is that of Bimbo Ademoyr, , a little bit of Omoni's, Ogunmola , just to mention a few.
ReplyDeleteShe has spoken well...
ReplyDeleteNigerians like to copy....No originality, even the Nigerian Architects copy and paste building designs.....
ReplyDeleteOmon* ob” was accused by a commenter of regurgitating Bollywood storylines. They read and rework the scripts. Even Bimbo’s Home coming is partly a mix of “The Devil Wears Prada” and some of her own take. It’s probably the only way they can release movies every week! Mo Ab*du took Netflix $ and disappeared to America, the other one at least built a film village. They all cheat each other yet Nigerians blame the government alone as if it’s aliens in government! Nigerians are not ready for a serious conversation on how MANY cannot cope if Nigeria actually works.
ReplyDeleteThey are used to the corruption and dysfunction. There is a lot of money laundering & washing of drug & stolen money from the treasury “washed” for politicians under the guise of being a film producer. How much is YouTube or Google’s turnover? The way many attribute their “money” to YouTube you will think the annual turnover is greater than those of all fortune 100 combined. Leaders emerge from the led. It’s bizarre.