Strategic Trends II: Who Becomes The Next AY Poyoo?
Trending is one way of making yourself well known in any way possible on social media platforms. This is an avenue that has been explored by many African celebrities within the shortest possible time. Many have used any strategy at their disposal to make themselves recognized and relevant for a specific period of time.
One such personality is “Mr. Eventuary” who suddenly rose to fame after making “weird” grammatical constructions behind his wheels in taxis. He was first seen in a moving taxi as the driver and full of smiles whilst he spewed literally “gibberish” to his seemly confused spectators. As fate will have it, these videos were uploaded unto the social media circles and it became an instant ‘hit’.
Sometime back, one gentleman found unprecedented fame for claiming to be richer than most well-known rich men in Africa and beyond such as Dangote and Bill Gates.
Frankly speaking, Nigerians helped to make Shatta Bandle trend with their enormous tweets and posts in an attempt to run down his claim to be a rich young folk.
Shatta Bandle’s fame was cut short by Hon. Aponkye and Bosom P-Yung. But, of late, there is another dude taking all the trends. The convener for the Poyoorians Movement – AY Poyoo is the main man now. Using ‘nonfa’ rap skills to woo almost all African social media users, he goes by the watchword Face of GH rap. This is a very unique style that AY Poyoo has adopted to make himself trend for so many weeks now. AY Poyoo’s 1 million YouTube views also became the talk of the town before his feature with artistes from other African countries made the headlines.
Even though a certain Mr. Kwame Fordjour aka Dr. UN took over the airwaves some weeks ago with fake award schemes and also trended for a while, he is no more in the equation. Unfortunately, Dr. UN’s trends didn’t go that far.
The summary of the matter is that; social media users are now thrilled with these crafty moves that people use to make themselves very famous overnight. As observers, we wonder where the next AY Poyoo will come from to cause traffic on all social media platforms. But for now, the trending radar is still on Poyoorians.
