Why I Hardly Consume Local Content

Again, tell me why I should watch that retarded show Inspekta Mwala instead of Criminal Minds?? Local content is garbage and it is what it is.

In this episode of Criminal Minds (Ashes and Dust), the serial killer burns victims in their houses. He watches the whole show while wearing a fire suit inside the burning house. The intro and cinematic effects are crazy. The ending was also crazy because you also learn alot about a Benzene fire - you can’t fight it.

Next time anyone tells me to consume local garbage content, I might just have to uppercut him back to his senses for insulting my intelligence. Inspekta Mwala and the rest are mboch material. Local content creators can cry me a river.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU8FGkk1ZpA

Link to full episode: https://dood.watch/d/omd5mmctb7s1

Lastly, for those who might complain about huge budgets, Morgan Spurlock spent $65,000 to produce the documentary Supersize Me which raked in over $22M at the Box Office. So, its not entirely a question of money but a question of quality content. Youtubers like Barely Sociable produce documentaries that would put 99.99% of local content to shame.

You must learn from today that the Technology used to create local content cannot be compared to those used to produce foreign content (what you prefer). You must learn that what you call local content is just a bad copy of the foreign content. Bonobos were brought these contents from abroad. During our days we could only play ajwa, tell stories and go to sleep. There was no TV. Those with radios were superior. Anyway what you call local is just a bad copy of what you prefer to call foreign content.

Explain how an individual Youtuber like Barely Sociable can produce better content than Citizen TV which is a multi-million dollar company??

I love Inspecta Mwala.

Royal media ni Biashara. Family investment. they don’t care what shit you watch on their TVs after all hao ndio kusema kwa media Industry. Local Kenyans do not have an option but to watch their TV’s (Royal Media)… On Inspector Mwala, the guy lost the content. Anajaribu kuingiza contents into dynamic world programmes but hakuna mutu wa kuipolish ikuwe fine.

Local Kenyans DO have options. I am a local Kenyan. I don’t watch that garbage. All you need is internet connectivity. Local artists, content creators etc keep bitching that Kenyans don’t consume their content but nobody ever confronts them with the truth - that their content is mostly garbage that is way below international standards.

Not many regions are Internet-connected. Internet is still expensive in Kenya, and many Kenyans are not connected. When it comes to entertainment Kenyans prefer free options.

I agree with you on Kenyans preferring free options. However, even when I couldn’t watch movies online or on Netflix, I used to simply buy TV series from movie guys. So, the absence of internet connectivity is not a total barrier because those that have connectivity still download the foreign content and sell it cheaply. Back in the day I would buy an entire TV series for just 30 bob as long as I had a flash disk.

30bob to many Kenyans ni Sukuma Wiki (collards). Then watu wengi hawako informed. Then many also do not have that time to waste

It’s only mboches and low IQ bonobos who watch stuff like Inspector Mwala, Zora, Mulamwa, Desagu, Churchill etc. I can’t waste my time on that trash. I just switch on my WiFi and watch great stuff online

I watch local content but sparingly. What I am totally against is the push from artists and government to consume local content. I believe that local content creators should focus on delivering quality content and letting us (the market) decide whether it is worth watching.

He he he do you watch 9pm news? Its like a religion in this country.

in afrika , elders barely empower the youth anymore …whatever the industry , look around

How many young Kenyans have access to kshs 7 million to spend on a documentary?

After adjustment that 7 million in 2004 is probably 12 million today.

Furthermore kshs 7 million ni production fees what of marketing fees???

A producer/distributor stepped in to market that documentary very aggressively. During that phase they often reshoot and re edit a lot of the film to give it a professional polish. That polish costs millions of dollars.

I also gave an example of Barely Sociable. A Youtube channel that does documentaries that would put local multimillion dollar TV stations to shame.

Local TV and radio stations get paid tens of millions by big brands for advertisements. Local individuals may not afford that $65k but media companies certainly can.

He is buying stock footage then re editing it into a documentary. It’s an old tactic. Ni kama podcast with footage. In some quarters that is not considered filmmaking.
There is a huge difference between editing stock images and going out into the real world and shooting completely original material and assembling it into a film.

For instance you take a show like Makers of a nation on NTV. They similarly use a lot of stock photos.

It would be a greater film if they used actual video recorded of Njonjo maybe in his house in the 1970s as well as 2010s , talking about his life rather than some narrator describing events. Of course the latter style is more expensive. Chamwada boards an aeroplane and goes and acquires original material. That is not cheap. Hotels, licenses, air tickets, equipment etc.

Versus someone who is using some old photos and google maps.

What he does is inconsequential as long as its legal. The end justifies the means. He gets many views and a loyal audience while local artists bitch and cry to the government for help.

Average IQ in Kenya is 80 my guy. Citizen knows their audience

Tumekubali. Why judge the mboches for watching that which tickle their fancy? … I know you love the Alejandro crap coz its foreign, mi can’t watch that shiet afadhali niwatch afro sinema. Kwa kifupi do you and let them do them.

That’s exactly the problem. THEY aren’t letting me do me. That’s why they are trying to use any means to force people like me to view local content.