Saving Lives or Saving Content?

I don’t know how we lost it. I don’t know how we concluded that recording events and posting on social media is better than saving lives. Are we all news reporters? Because I don’t understand the rationale behind recording emergencies instead of actually calling for help. I don’t understand how people prioritize going viral over swift response to emergencies.

I witnessed two accidents today. One was a motor accident, and the other was a young man who slumped out of nowhere. Both incidents were frightening, and I couldn’t even bring myself to look at the scene, as I was consumed with so much pain. I was brought back to reality by people screaming “ahhh” and the multiple phones recording.

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Thank God for the few people who still had their senses and were brave enough to respond swiftly. The bunch of fake journalists AKA content creators that were present were only concerned about making videos, making voiceovers, and hell-bent on informing their fans rather than rendering help.

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If there were just a couple of phones I wouldn’t have been mad, but no, almost everyone had their phones up, and you’d think it was a tradition or they were paid to do it.

I was mad, disappointed, and disheartened. For what exactly? Views? engagements? Followers? To go viral?

If half of the people who were recording had responded swiftly like the sensible ones, I think things would have been handled quickly.

If the young and old are bent on being content creators who would rather record any and everything for their fans than save lives, then there is a problem, a big problem, I dare say.

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May this content creation pandemic not rob us of our humanity and our sense of urgency in the face of emergencies.

I don’t know how we can recover from this content creation pandemic, but we need to recover pretty soon but until then, we’d have to keep praying for the number of sensible people to increase.

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