To revisit this article, select My⁠ ⁠Account, then View saved stories. The hashtag #dontleavemechallenge has over 77 million views on the app, but users are recreating the trends on other platforms, including Instagram and Twitter. See How To Advertise. It’s the typical reaction you’d expect out of anyone who tells a bad joke – it’s just been turned into a trend on the internet. Started by Nigerian actor and comedian Josh Alfred, known online as Josh2funny, the trend simply involves people using puns and on-the-nose wordplay to make really corny jokes. When we allow these stereotypes to become the dominant narrative about Africans, we downplay the very real people behind the stereotypes, and turn them into disembodied “memes.” And as a culture, we have to stop making Africans the butt of a joke they never asked to be a part of. From dashikis and African drums, to people rapping about lions and cheetahs in accents I can only describe as Wakandan (having no distinct ties to any one country in Africa) these cartoonish renderings looked nothing like any Nigerians (or Africans for that matter) that I know. On TikTok, the challenge hashtag has more than 930 million views, and “don’t leave me” has more than 2 billion. There’s a cultural erasure when we decontextualize every Black person from the continent as a stereotype. All rights reserved. But this isn’t a brand new issue. Take Nigerian rapper Davido's recent appearance on Wild ‘n Out. The young person’s guide to conquering (and saving) the world. The role of “African” characters in film and television has historically been to serve as comedic relief, or to stand in juxtaposition to a seemingly more refined Western character. The latest of these to light up social media is the “Don't Leave Me” challenge. Real sentences showing how to use Don't leave me correctly. © 2020 Condé Nast. For Black Americans, that disdain looks like a complicity in upholding stereotypes about Africans — that we are uncivilized, savage, and somehow beneath everyone else — that have long been imposed by whiteness. Nairaland Forum / Entertainment / Jokes Etc / Don't Leave Me Challenge Funniest Compilation Ft King Bach, Josh2funny, Tyga (427 Views) Funniest Don't Leave Me Challenge Compilations / Best Don't Leave Me Challenge Compilation / JOSH2FUNNY LIVE: One Corner, Mans Not Hot (igbo REMIX) (1) The conversation becomes more complex when it’s people from outside the group who are creating these characters. In Josh’s version, you can hear him clearly speaking in his distinctly Nigerian accent and being questioned by the person holding the camera about the plant leafs he’s holding — he jokingly says to Josh, “don’t leave me” at the end of the video. In a misguided attempt to mirror the original video though, many online are replicating the challenge by using “African” accents. It’s an easy yet harmful way to lump all Africans into the same category, completely diminishing the national, tribal, and ethnic heritages many of us strive so hard to maintain in the diaspora. He posted a video to Instagram in March, in which he made a play on words involving leaves, but his cameraman, Bello Khabir, allegedly christened the challenge, possibly with his own pun. The easy games created on TikTok, SnapChat, and Instagram have provided a way to kill time, and become standard recreation in the age of coronavirus. And now, what started out as a fun, lighthearted trend has turned into a new game of who can do the worst impression of an “African.”. Take me with you.” The video was viewed over 1.7 millions times and received over 283,000 likes. But making fun of a person’s accent or performing what I like to call “African-face” isn’t just harmful because it hurts people’s feelings. Social media challenges have been a huge part of popular culture over the last few months. Those tropes have now shaped the larger politics of how Black people in America perform what they understand to be African-ness. Nairaland Forum / Entertainment / Jokes Etc / Don't Leave Me Challenge Funniest Compilation Ft King Bach, Josh2funny, Tyga (526 Views), Don't Leave Me Challenge / Funniest Don't Leave Me Challenge Compilations / Best Don't Leave Me Challenge Compilation (2) (3) (4), The Nigerian Twitter! Stereotypical depictions of any ethnic or racial group have long been the low-hanging fruit of comedic expression in Western culture. In fact, popular media is still so rife with these kinds of depictions that it was hardly surprising to see them play out on social media in the exact same way. Ad Choices, Don't Leave Me Challenge Is Making Africans a Monolithic Punchline. In this op-ed writer Tayo Bero unpacks the insidious nature of joking about African culture and perpetuating the idea that Africans are monolithic. @ballermac. And Africans in particular — as diverse and spread out across the continent as we are — have often carried the brunt of this brand of comedy. Marsai Martin and Her Friends Filmed Their Own "Don't Rush Challenge", TikTok’s #DontRush Challenge Makes Me Want to Get Dolled Up ASAP, The Hidden Challenge Many Teen Immigrants Face, Photo: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images. There’s a cultural erasure when we decontextualize every Black person from the continent as a stereotype. Part of the problem goes back to the fraught relationship between Black Americans and Africans from the continent. Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2020 Oluwaseun Osewa. The fact that this type of comedy is so popular also reveals many of the stereotypes that are still held about Africans today, including by Black Americans. S ocial media is being taken over by a whole lot of dad jokes and we have the “Don’t Leave Me” challenge to thank for that.. The whole point of the challenge is to share a pun or equally horrible joke and follow it up with “don’t leave me” as you run away from the camera. Examples: To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Davido, one of the biggest artists out of the continent, was invited onto the hip-hop improv battle show and in the course of the 20-minute segment, the comics crammed in every available stereotype about Africans known to man. See examples of Don't leave me in English. And as someone who has had classmates in high school listen in on conversations with my friends and family and then put on mock conversations of their own using my “Nigerian accent,” I can relate to the sting of having yourself put on cruel display in this way. There are many ways to unpack where that chasm comes from but historically, much of the mutual resentment between the two groups has been rooted in a perceived “scarcity” of opportunities that are available to Black people in America as a collective, whether you were born in the US or not. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Teen Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. TV comedies like Modern Family and American Dad almost always feature some stereotypical rendering of African people. Just this past weekend, R&B singer K. Michelle mocked fellow singer Tamar Braxton's boyfriend David Oyefeso, after he made an Instagram video addressing a feud between the two women. Take me with you.” The creator, then poses another question with a designer punchline and his friend reacts with the same response, “Don’t leave me. While many of the app’s trends are TikTok exclusives you can only find on the “For You” page, the don’t leave me challenge has expanded beyond TikTok’s domain. 12Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights. Don't leave me challenge funniest compilation FT King Bach, Tyga, Josh2funny, Funke Akindele and more, these guys are talented, they should take these talents to the spark 5 challenge and they could be winners, Don't Leave Me Challenge Funniest Compilation Ft King Bach, Josh2funny, Tyga, Funniest Don't Leave Me Challenge Compilations, Best Don't Leave Me Challenge Compilation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFYqnQb4Boo, Re: Don't Leave Me Challenge Funniest Compilation Ft King Bach, Josh2funny, Tyga. It’s humiliating. / Funny Kids Picks Thread / Fox News Fail, Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10). Teen Vogue covers the latest in celebrity news, politics, fashion, beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and entertainment. This is how you make a ‘don’t leave me take me with you’ video in six simple steps: Step 1: Get some props you can use to make some puns. Don't Leave Me Challenge Is Making Africans a Monolithic Punchline. For example, a lightbulb and a Nintendo Switch. The sense that African immigrants are taking jobs and opportunities away from Black Americans has further fueled that long-existing contempt, adding to the mutual disdain from both parties.

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