Olodo Uprising.. what do you think?

Olodo Uprising? Or Did the System Just Fail People?

Lately, everybody has been shouting “Olodo Uprising.”

But I keep asking myself…

Is it really an uprising of "olodos," or is it just people trying to survive in a country that stopped giving relevance to important, smart things?

For years, we were given the same pattern:

“Go to school. Read your books. Graduate. Get a good job.”

People believed and followed it.

Parents made sacrifices. Students stayed up all night reading. Some even graduated with first-class degrees.

Then reality hit.

No jobs.

Or jobs paying so little that transport to work almost swallows the whole salary.

So people looked elsewhere.

Some started making skits. Some became influencers. Some learnt digital skills. Some started businesses. Some simply found a way to make the internet work for them.

Now they're being called “olodos.”

Isn't that funny?

The same society that couldn't create enough opportunities is now mocking people for creating opportunities for themselves.

Yes, social media has its issues. Sometimes the loudest person gets the most attention. Sometimes nonsense goes viral while people doing meaningful work are ignored.

That's true.

But let's not pretend people wake up one morning and decide, “You know what? I want to be unserious.”

People go where the opportunities are.

The real question isn't why young people are chasing attention.

The real question is why attention is paying better than education.

That's the conversation we should be having.

Because this isn't an “Olodo Uprising.”

It's a generation refusing to sit hungry while waiting for a system that has been saying, "Try again next year," for years.

So before we laugh at people who found another way to survive, maybe we should ask who broke the system in the first place.

Because they built a system that failed millions of young people…

...and then gave those same people a nickname for trying to survive it.