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That's White Piper on Facebook, Y254 channel on Twitter, Y254 underscore channel on the gram, for Psy KTA, Psy are not to pick your game. Yes, so it's a corner. Me and guest Kwanzaa take it, pair gang gang, I love it. And by the way, I'm gonna Raji's the DJ. She took on No Shave November. I'm gonna Nini, I'm gonna go to Kwanzaa. Hi. Hi. How are you? Fine thanks. How you doing? I'm good. I'm gonna hairstyle you a Pesa Rasta. How you doing? You are the embodiment of No Shave November. Naha Rengi, by the way, and Tukunyua Billa Ma Ringo. Please introduce yourself for the people. Hi people, my name is Obai Patrick, also known as Mama Akkoth, I'm a Baba Akkoth on TikTok. Yes. So many questions. So, so many questions. Let's start with the fact that we are in a generation where we are comfortable in drag. Like, umeva dera rasta, na wukafunga nisha kichua, na una tupatia content. That's not scary for you at all? Toxic masculinity and everything? No, if you're comfortable with what you're doing, then I don't think there's a problem with it. Dude, you're funny. Thank God you don't have a problem with it because you're funny. Thank you, thank you very much. See, that is insane that he's funny. He's funny! And don't have the TikTok. I wanna tell you to talk to me on the phone. What inspires Mama Akkoth or Baba Akkoth? Or even you, because I see you as yourself sometimes on TikTok. Yes. What inspires Mama Akkoth is basically how I was brought up. I was brought up by very strong women. My mom, my two paternal and maternal grandmothers, they are very strong women and they are very vocal. Basically, I always tell people Mama Akkoth is my paternal grandma. That's how she is. An outspoken woman and a strong woman who held the family together. Yes. Has that affected you? This is out of curiosity. It has nothing to do with anything, TikTok or content creation. But has it affected how you deal with females around you? Not really, not really. Because this is just a character behind the camera. After that, there is Patrick himself. So when you see me doing my TikTok in the car or somewhere else without a data, without that hair-fib, then that is totally a different person from Mama Akkoth as a character. No. No, not really. Okay. The most recent video that I have seen of Mama Akkoth is the one I saw in school. First thing. I saw her in school. How is it easy, rather? Okay, it doesn't look easy. So let me rephrase. How do you know what kind of social event to pick on in society? Like, politics, I'm also assuming there's going to be a lot of satire on that, especially the year we're coming into. But how do you know when it's okay? Like, how do you know when it's okay? Like, how do you discern? Basically, social life and what is going on in society is where I draw my content from. Because these are things that we interact with daily. It's all over the place. So I just find a comic way of putting it out there. And for me, being male and doing a female character basically depicts the comic in it. And for me, it's never, it's not hard because it's something I'm used to doing and I'm alone with the camera. So I'm very comfortable at the same time. So what do you do when you post something on Instagram? Do you post something on Instagram? As soon as I post something, I am not in control of how someone decodes. Let's just fist bump on that story and we'll continue. Yes, I'm not in control of how people decode. But for me, basically when I'm doing it, it's just for fun. Have you had negative feedback on social media? It's not easy, you know. And sometimes when you do something that you love, you forget that, by the way, you cannot wanna consume and they also have their own ideas and opinions and all these things. But you're just trying to do what you love to do. So what happens when more people wanna come across you and they have things to say that are not so nice? Yeah, that is, if you're an artist and a content creator for that matter, you should be prepared for everything because then at times negative comments are to even the positive comments. Really? Yes, but what do you pick from it? Give me a, for example, I want real life, yes. For example, when you post a video maybe on a certain, okay, let me give a character of now me playing Mama Koth. People basically have not conceptualized that the fact that men can play a female character and it's just for the screen. Basically that's something that we are trying to adopt as a country, as a Kenyan society and Africa's generally. That is something that has not been there, but slowly we're accepting and picking it up. So before people accepted it, there were negative comments, how, why would you, where would you, there I would, you know, but at the end of the day, it's all about me. It's all about me, do I know myself? Yes. So what he's very diplomatically trying to tell us is some hard questions were asked that was very unnecessary. Yes, they are very unnecessary because I do not know, I do not owe anyone an explanation of the content I create. I'm really glad you said that because we see people like, there's a story that was trending. It's a very close but very far. It's a very bad feeling. It's a very close but he's a football player. Now I'm a little bit of a little bit, he's Kenyan and there was a whole scandal when his mom I think was not well and for a while she had a bit of a short, long illness. And there's a time the public came and demanded and asked, you are making this amount of money, what are you doing to do? And he kept quiet for a while, but eventually he just, okay, Nani, I'm going to kill you, it's a lot of money, it's expensive, but I honestly did not understand why he had to tell us. It's not my business. I don't even know how much tax he pays. Do you feel like sometimes people just want things from you and where are you going? Yeah, but people want, but the control is yours. You can only give as much as you want to give because if you let people push you around on what they want to see, what they want to hear and what they want you to give, then you let them control what you are. For me it's what can I give up to what level, up to what extent can I give? How does it affect me? How does it affect my family? Because I would not want to drag the whole, it's me on social media, why would I drag everyone else on social media? So if it's me, let me deal with the people asking the question, let me not drag everybody else. Do you reply or do you just stay silent? I reply on positive comments. For negative comments, I am not a negative person, I'm not of negative energy. So I'm born of positivity and that's the positive vibe I bring when I do my skits, when I create my content. It's all about positivity. So for a negative energy, it only gives me another stepping stone, but I do not reply because I'm wasting my energy on somebody that I do not know with someone behind the screen. I don't know who needs to hear this, but imagine if you want to fight someone too. Exactly. Just relax. They might want to fight you, you just chill. Just sit there and look pretty or just look handsome, just do something. If it's the wig and the beard, don't take it. If you flip the beard, you'll have to pay for it. Connect. Hashtag social Friday. Okay, tell me about you now, as a person away from social media, away from the things that you show, what do you do, what do you like to do for fun? First of all, I'm a professionally trained human resource manager. Plot twist. This is not what we discussed. Yes, I'm actually professionally trained. Yes, I have a degree in human resource management. Apart from that, I was employed for a certain number of years, then I moved out of employment to pursue passion, and that passion is basically cooking. So I'm a professional, not professionally trained, but self-made chef, and that is what I do on a daily basis. That is even more impressive. Yes. Do you put these things on social media like your recipes, cooking? Yes, I do. Is the gram ticked off? On all my social media platforms. On Instagram. Okay, now that we are here, guys, to any see me, it's that time to support your people. It's only 75 percent. It's only 75 percent. Okay, what is your name on social media? Obay Patrick. Obay Patrick. Obay. Ah, there are not many people like you. Okay, Obay Patrick. Follow. Okay, follow it. Also you follow. Yeah, thank you very much. So I'm a chef on a daily basis. I have 8 to 5 kitchen. To pick up, to serve water, to interact with customers. That's what I do on a daily basis. If I didn't love my job so much, I'd be jealous of you. So I'm glad I love mine. Hey, okay. So when do you get time? You have an age to five. You have responsibilities as a person. When do you get time to do all these TikToks? TikTok basically is something that I love doing, or rather creating content. It's something I love doing. And I would create... It doesn't take too much of... You know, some people ask me, where do you get extra hours to do? Yeah. But it takes only... If you're used to it and you have the content in your head, it's very easy to put it out there. In 30 minutes you are done. That is shooting and even editing and posting it. Allah. And you forget about it. Because when I come from work, I have thought about the content. I just come home. The first thing is do change into my dinner, Funga Kitambayan, when I wear the wig. Then shoot and edit it. It takes less than 45 minutes for me to do that. So I don't find it time consuming. And again, it's fun. It's fun. And I like making people feel part of me and I also have to put content every other time because it's the part I've chosen. Yeah. And the ones that I do in the car, anywhere I shoot, I just park and edit it. Then I'll just park and immediately do it and then I'll edit but die. So it's like literally when the ad strikes, you must do it. Yes, yes. Sometimes I leave the kitchen to go and shoot. And then I go to the bathroom. Safety first. When we are upon a food, we are best friends. Right. So you have an 8-5. Okay. What I'm getting from your story is the initial stages were not easy when you were doing balance. It's never easy. It's never easy. So even now it's not? It's not. It's not even now. Because at times it's so demanding because people, I have created that, that I have to put out a video every other day. Expectations. Yes. People are expecting a video every other day because after one day people are saying, yeah, my mother learned that. So I have to put out content every day and you have to think of the content. So everywhere I go, be it in a supermarket, be it in a market, I look out for things that I can create content about. So I have the upbeat in terms of my job, in terms of content creation. So it's never that easy and it will never get easy. It's just how you learn to cope with it. And it helps you have a bubbly personality or a sanguine, aren't you? You are dealing with a lot of people. Like PR, PR, whatever, whatever. It's okay to be talented like this. Yes, yes. I have a way with people in terms of, my personality not just being, not just because I'm professionally trained in that field, but from way back when I was younger I have a way with people because I'm a people's person. I love people and people I tend to interact so easily with people. It's normal to see people but they don't know who they are. Before you have a personality, in a beauty, you have to know who you are. But sorry, I don't know who I am. My last question, because this kind of bothers me, let me explain it with personal something. So you don't feel a bit attacked. Yes. I went to Instagram, they allowed me to disable, me seeing how many likes you have. Let's say we're following each other. Okay. So I've disabled, I'll just see like two people and others. And in turn, I also did the same. For me, I did it because when I was under pressure, I was like, I'll ask you, if you're okay, maybe I'm fresh, but when you're fresh, it's all like that. So me, it's giving me pressure. How do you even go in now to your page? I say to myself, at my exam, I'll ask you, can you imagine this kind of pressure? I'll go out and enjoy and live a soft life. Instead, I'm looking at his likes, and then I end up following others. So I'll ask him, if he's okay, I've wasted five minutes of my life. So I've removed all those things. Do you have pressure for how many people are liking your things? Because you know you now, you have an actual audience who are waiting for you. Not really. I don't think that can put pressure on me because when I'm creating content, you create content for fun. If you take it again too seriously, that you have to reach, it's not at you expecting payment for it. It's something you're doing for fun. It's just a recreational thing. So for me, it doesn't put that much pressure. I'm actually surprised at times when I shoot something when I have not put in my head, and then it goes viral. And I'm like, what? You just shoot for the sake of it, because it's an interesting thing. It takes like five seconds, but it's something that goes viral. And the one that you have taken most of your time to think about and create about it, it doesn't go viral. So if you let it get to you, then it will stress you out. For me, once I post, really going look at how many people have liked it. Usually I want to try and comment to respond to every positive comment that is on. So if it's an emoji, you can check it, I will respond. I'll just respond. But if I don't respond immediately, I will definitely have to create time for it. Yes. Thank God for small mercies. So you must tell yourself, it's a new one by the way. Yes, yes. It's a new one. It's never that same. Yes, it's fun. Do your likes. Yes. Please don't be doing anything foolish because of something someone else has given you pressure on social media. Send your name. But in the meantime, with that said, we are now about to welcome back one Masai Kta. That is his name. Kta. Not KTA. I'm from Narajis. Water. Toa Chiao. Hashtag the social Friday. We're going to play a game. You don't want to miss this.