‘Online abuse worse than racism,’ Tacha speaks on cyberbullying

Nigerian reality TV star Natasha Akide, popularly known as Tacha, has spoken on the topic of cyberbullying amongst Nigerians, claiming that it is worse than racism.

The beauty influencer, while weighing in on the backlash faced by chess advocate Tunde Onakoya after he shared a video of himself playing chess at the Louvre Museum plaza, explained that she is proud of the way the he handled the situation.

Tacha, however, criticised the discriminatory attitude by Nigerians towards one of their own, adding that Nigerians have the tendency to be worse that foreign racists.

“When I see Nigerians talk about racism, I just laugh. Because we’re some of the most discriminatory and segregating people to ever exist. I’ve experienced racism, yes, but if you see what Nigerians do to fellow Nigerians every day on this app is worse. 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,” she wrote.