Invisibility in Visibility: The Child-Trickster in "Frank Donga Versus Baby Landlord" Comedy Skits on Youtube
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https://doi.org/10.56666/ahyu.v6i.164Keywords:
Social Media, Children, Comedy Skits, MarxismAbstract
The advent of social media in digital technology has proved to be a blessing in disguise for many entrepreneurs as it de-emphasized the physical location of markets for dissemination of goods and services thus exponentially boosting their profit margin. Another set of entrepreneurs who have exploited social media space to earn substantial income are creative minds who have carved a niche for themselves by churning out creative content of various forms such as music, short films, pranking, interviews, comedy skits and the like. This set of entrepreneurs have been able to get major social media giants like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pay them for the engagements their content attracts regularly. Like the Mark-Angel comedy skits on social media, Frank Donga runs a series of comedy skits on YouTube, many episodes of which he features an invisible smart child-like character known as Baby Landlord. This paper examines factors responsible for Baby Landord’s ingenuity and his ascription of power, especially from a Marxists and Foucaultian perspective, using a sample of three episodes of Frank Donga versus Baby Landlord comedy skits on YouTube.
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