Actress and producer Mary Remmy Njoku has raised concern over how social media is being used in Nigeria. In a strongly worded Instagram post, she said painful realities are now treated as “content” — from deaths to street fights, even down to the tears of a child.

Njoku warned that when victims are turned into content, they are no longer seen as human beings but as material for clout and virality. She went further in her caption, questioning: “What exactly are we turning into?”

According to her, while social media has the power to unite, amplify justice, and inspire change globally, in Nigeria it is being consumed by clout-chasing. She noted how pain is broadcast as entertainment and suffering packaged like skits.

Sometimes, Njoku said, she chooses to log off completely, preferring to solve real problems with real people instead of scrolling through endless noise.

She ended with a call for reflection: before posting, recording, or uploading, Nigerians should pause and ask themselves if they are amplifying humanity or stripping it away.

“We are still human in this country… aren’t we?” she concluded.