Blogging has always been something fascinating to the
general audience. It has been maintaining some dignity until the past five
years. When I started blogging, it was considered an activity of the educated
intellectuals. I was just thirteen then and people were awestruck in general to
find me writing profoundly. To write well, you’ve to read more, which I did
right from a tender age.
But now, when I see the present scenario, everything seems
devastated and some devastation can be predicted.
Nowadays, people are less into blogging and more into being
on youtube and social media influencing. But I must tell you that such
platforms are not reliable, since you haven’t hosted them.
Since, social media influencers and youtubers require just a
quarter of talent to flourish, many content creators have no value in their
content , yet go viral just because, they’re sitting on a paramount capital.
As a result, many people entitle blogging as a profession of
the unemployed.
I never saw this much amount of cursing and abusing when I
started using social media. I never saw its usage in real life before my
teenage. How has this negativity emerged so much? Hardly any civilized and
educated parent would use abusive language in front of his ward. No reputable
educational institution has any tutorial over how to curse and abuse. Where has
this negativity emerged from?
The fact is, that the negativity is from the content we
consume.
Yesterday, I was just surfing through my Instagram feed in
the evening and I found a person I know criticizing a post by sharing it. I
just opened it and found that the account belonged to a small school boy
and he was using at least two abusive
words in every sentence. I couldn’t believe it. And you won’t believe it, every
of his recent videos had no less than 20k views. The content he produces is
getting an audience, why wouldn’t he love to show more of such dirtiness. That
boy had even uploaded a shirtless. He had shared his youtube channel in the
link of his bio. I found his birth date from his channel’s cover picture. He
was born in 2006, which means he was just 14. Just imagine what the mindset of
such a boy would be when he grows up.
Scrolling down his Instagram feed, I found a post of 2018 of
Bhuvan Bam. This shows that the boy used to watch BBKiVines when he was just
12.
Bhuvan Bam is a youtuber who posts vulgar content. Still, he
has emerged in various TV commercials and has been glorified by even the
mainstream media.
I must tell you that Bhuvan Bam is the youtuber, who invited
Johny Sins, a notorious pornstar.
When 13-14 year olds are behaving this way, just imagine, who is putting this down their heads?
Talking about CarryMinati, who is the richest content
creator of India became so after spreading so much of hatred through his
youtube video against TikTok. Upon expulsion of his video from Youtube, his
fans showed blind support to him. Even it seems to me his PR stunt.
And now, that Gaurav Vasan was doing good deeds and helped
Baba Ka Dhaba flourish; being jealous that he might outshine these talentless
youtubers, Lakshay Chaudhary, who hails from my city itself, framed him in his
video without the complete knowledge.
You might call it comedy or fun, but when you involve legal
action in it, it’s no longer the same.
I’ll write about Baba Ka Dhaba in another post.
Instagram is no longer the platform of creativity. I was
checking the accounts I gave shoutouts before the onset of 2019. To my dismay,
more than half of them have exited the content creation industry by giving up.
I feel sad. Their content was so good. Are comedy and memes everything? Are we
losing our sense of judging creativity and talent?
Directors and producers use foul language in web series,
calling it ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘no censor board pressure’. But have they
ever fulfilled their social responsibilities. Who would care of the social fabric
of India?