Even during Farmaajo time, I would love it going viral. I have no sympathy or feelings to protect the Somali “image”.There’s no way in hell I’d defend the girl or anyone behind it. It was embarrassing and everyone involved has to be held accountable. The girl herself should have rejected to take part. However I most definitely know it’s tribalism on the twitter user’s part. Come on dude we aren’t 5. I come across that account and it’s posts. Clan undertones are plenty on her post. Even if it isn’t qabyaalad why share it to foreigners, she is getting a quick on the 14 million views and the articles. Mind you if this happened in farmaajo’s era I’d still be saying the same thing. This is the type of ceeb that we should hide and deal with within ourselves.
Sweeping it under the rug won’t solve anything. I would hope more things like this continue so perhaps they’ll be embarrassed enough to do something about it.