my journalism module. Didn't plan on posting. However, I thought to myself, nah. This is good blog
material, so why should I deprive the people of some good humour? So 'ere we are ladies and gents. Enjoy.
I’m sitting here laughing so hard right now. I mean, what I’m laughing at is something that happened a few days ago, but you know when you’re sitting alone and you have so much time to just sit and think, then things that happened ages ago come back to you? Yeah, that. So let's get straight to it.
Twitter is the place I really just say what I feel, without having a care in the world. Some of the things I “tweet” are probably a bit too controversial, but hey, freedom of speech and all that jazz, right? Wrong. Not according to this guy.
Kojo. I'm sure you all know him. Fresh Prince of Hackers and all that. He could be seen as a veteran, since he has been in the game for so long. Seems strange for a so-called vet's jokes to be sliding downhill at 30/31 years of age. :-/ Maybe I am being a bit unkind. He has had a lot of success in the, what, 10 years (I’m guessing) he’s been about, but I just don't think he's as funny as he used to be. I really don’t understand what’s happened. Anyway, let me move on to the actual matter at hand.
Last year some time, (I recall it being early summertime), there was an incident on twitter surrounding Kojo the comedian. At the time, I had been following him. I mean, everyone else was, so I thought why not eh? He must have some funny tweets if everyone is following him. So, I had been following him for a while, but as time went on, I became very alarmed at the fact that someone who was meant to be SO funny was so UNENTERTAINING. The main thing that was really annoying for me was the ‘trending topics’ that he would create – and it seemed to be only him partaking in them. WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?
So at this point, I was feeling quite irritable. This guy is meant to be a comedian, but right now, I feel like I’m doing his job better than he is! So me being the person that I am, I tweeted exactly how I felt didn’t I? Now this was about nine months ago, so I can’t remember exactly what I said, but it was along the lines of “Sorry to say this, but @KojoComedian isn’t funny :/ “ I had every intention of him seeing it. Soz. After I said that, I realised a few people had been tweeting the exact same thing as me. It was obvious I wasn’t the only person who felt this way. Anyway, after all that, I thought to myself, eff this. He’s not funny, he does NOT make me laugh, why am I following him on twitter? So I unfollowed him, and that was that. Or at least I thought it was.
So as I said, that was nine months ago. It is now January and Kojo and I have gone our separate ways on Twitter. I’ve gained more followers than I have lost, and him? Well, who really knows? But what I discovered this week is that he hates losing. I happened to just stumble across one of his tweets, as someone that I follow ‘retweeted’ something he said. And so, the annoyance returned. It came back in full effect. His tweet read “Has anyone introduced @NICKIMINAJ to Nando’s? #GhettoTourOfLondon”. No. Just…no Kojo. You failed. What an epic fail. Nando’s is far from ghetto, and as far as I’m concerned Kojo, your attempts have botched. Miserably.
Anyway, after seeing that tweet, something in me told me to go to his page and follow him so I would be able to see what other claptrap-filled tweets he had been composing. Dunno what it was. So I clicked “FOLLOW”, ready to have a good old laugh - but the request to follow him bounced back. This is the message that came up on my screen: “Could not follow user: You have been blocked from following this account at the request of the user.”
Is this guy for real? Did Kojo really block me? Kojo really blocked me? HAHAHAHA. My guess was that he blocked me nine months ago when I tweeted at him saying he wasn’t funny, but I hadn’t realised at the time, because of course, I had already ‘unfollowed’ him. This is all the confirmation that I need, at this point. Any other witty, first-class comedian would have seen my tweet, laughed, and turned it into a joke.
I mean come on, lighten up b, it's just Twitter.
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