The craft of comedy has taken a new face and route. The channel of extending humor to intended audience have expanded over the last couple of years. The advent of social media redirected the traffic concentration of comic audience and it has been a major contributor to the growth of platforms like Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, V-Skit and more. Comedians within this divide identify a comedy niche and style, build a persona online and consistently dish out their content to cater to a set of audience to which his/her content appeal to.
In this piece, we’re taking a look at a circle of online content creators, who create a chunk of their materials with each other but still flaunt individual identities and online personality. These set of creators are:
Sydneytalker
Nastyblaq
Zfancy
Pankeeroy
Amidst these creators, artistic content cutting across niches like comedy, dance and choreography, pranks, brand promotional content and more, are things their expertise scribble through to front their complete artistic personality. For clarity and better context, we’ll go through each of the creators and the specificity of their materials.
Sydneytalker
He’s an Instagram sensation and a widely renowned content creator with a large Instagram audience of over a million and half followers, he has trailed the path of Instagram comedy for a while now and has earned a considerable amount of stake in the hierarchy of elite and top Nigerian comic content creators. He blends his art with dance and collaborations with other creators from this list and beyond. His exploits have earned him collaborations with mainstream standup and screen comedians and even movie roles.
Nastyblaq
Nastyblaq is unapologetically nasty with a blend of intense humor and double as an actor and host. His content are filled with a burst of facial expressions and gesticulations. His humor utilizes every part of the actor and are highly performative. Sometimes, the humor is hidden beneath the non dialogue parts. He tries to create content that fits into different audience divide and can be relatable. He dances as well as he does comedy. Just like Sydney, it’s needless to stress on how multi talented they are. He has a following of over 800 thousand on Instagram.
Zfancy
Zfancy takes a different route from the conventional humor method. He’s a prankster and without a doubt the most renowned one on our digital space in the country. His prank exploits have cut across different social classes and fear trigger level. He has pranked bystanders, students, market women, celebrities, delivery men, influencers and more. In the world of pranksters, it would be safe to say he has so much body count. One underappreciated talent of a prankster is the acting skills. For one to genuinely install fear into a prospect, you need to be convincing enough and act the part. He has gotten punched, insulted and pursued for stretching and really putting the screws on his victims. If I may call them that. His audience of almost 500 thousand followers are glued, loyal and always ready to consume his content.
Pankeeroy
Pankeeroy is an entertainer and a prolific dancer. He has found a way to infuse his dance skills into Nigerian pop songs while marking it with his signature dance moves. He also does comedy and lays his focus on relatable issues ranging from relationships and friendships. Approaching a followership of 300 thousand, he splits through his audience and caters to different taste in comedy, music and dance.
These creators are a faction of Nigerian creators who have aided to set a pace in their terrain and operate within a collaborative space and still have individual identities and content routes. We await whatever they have in store as they grow their craft.
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