Nigerian reality TV star who oftentimes refers to herself as Port Harcourt’s first daughter, Natasha Akide, popularly known as Tacha, has spoken on cyberbullying among Nigerians, describing it as more severe than racism.
The beauty influencer made the remarks while reacting to criticism directed at chess advocate Tunde Onakoya after he shared a video of himself playing chess at the Louvre Museum plaza in Paris. She also commended his response to the backlash.
Tacha criticised what she described as discriminatory behaviour among Nigerians toward fellow Nigerians, arguing that such conduct can sometimes be worse than racism experienced abroad.
In her words, she pointed out the contrast between public conversations on racism and online behaviour locally.
“I’ve experienced racism, yes, but if you see what Nigerians do to fellow Nigerians every day on this app is worse.”
Expanding on her view of online culture, she added, “when I see Nigerians talk about racism, I just laugh. Because we’re some of the most discriminatory and segregating people to ever exist.”
Tacha further suggested that such behaviour is often driven by personal frustration and lack of real-life impact. She wrote, “And to be honest, if we were in their position, we would probably do worse.
“There’s something most of y’all need to understand, you see most of these trolls & bullies on the app? Are just miserable ppl in real life. Asin, they have no real-world impact.
“They’ve not done anything impactful in the real world other than engagement farming and trolling people here.
“Their biggest achievement in life is probably just Twitter engagements. In the real world, they’ve done nothing meaningful.
“So when they see people succeeding and making a positive impact in the real world, they become bitter.”
