Most social media platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and others, have become unquestionable sources of employment for many persons. What used to be grounds for fun, have suddenly become income generating avenues.
Nowadays, there’s no excuse for owning a social media account and still lacking a job, or being unable to feed from any of these apps.
There has been a dramatic rise in social media comedians, living healthily and lavishly, due to the amount many are able to garner. In 2021, Khaby Lame, a popular Italy-based Senegalese TikToker, was pronounced to have ammased about $2,000,000 earned only in the space of one year.
According to publications, he created his account in March 2020, after losing his factory job in Italy, due to COVID-19. When Italy went into a lock down, Khaby created his account, and before 2021 came to an end, he was already worth $2,000,000, funny enough, without saying a single word in any of his social media skits. However, his hand gestures and sign language moves are enough to crack you up, and undeniably pass a message across.
Coming to Cameroon, one comedian who’s seemingly following Khaby’s footsteps, is Monsieur Chantal.
Monsieur Chantal, is a young and uprising Cameroonian content creator who didn’t have it easy at the beginning of his comedy career for sure, but seemingly CV found his mojo along the line, sometime in September of 2021.
Still uprising, Chantal’s social media posts from March 2021, before his explosion in November, with his viral provocative manner of dance, involving funny hip movements and a low, squatting stance, doesn’t only show how far he has come, but equally how patient he needed to be, to hit heights. He might not have been doing it right, and how he finally figured it out, is only part of the process!
It was somewhat funny that, though news about Khaby, cashing in from TikTok, many could only exhale in awe, but very few people seem to have thought it wise to emulate or try copying his creativity. Funny enough, Chantal seems to be following those footsteps, of delivering back-to-back skits, without saying a word. He’s however doing it in his own way.
Either he’s dancing, or running along the street, always without a shirt, but yet, delivering the goods. He is sure making some papers from his craft. Not yet at his prime financially, but with over 100k followers, in less than just three months on Facebook, shows his exponential growth in numbers.
With consistency and the right team, he might end up, making huge sums of money than he’s making now, and why not, be the Cameroonian “Khaby Lame”?
With the way things are going, do you think Monsieur Chantal can be the next big thing?
