Why Kenyans are mocking Betty Kyallo’s makeup blunder

Betty Kyallo had a heavy weekend this past one and she clearly attempted to put in the effort to look good but unfortunately, that backfired and she ended up looking more at home at a comic-con convention playing the joker.

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A fan of hers asked for a photo together and Betty Kyallo obliged only for her to be paraded all across the internet for people on IG to point at and laugh. Which is actually a messed up facet of social media.

So why was a simple (is this considered a wardrobe malfunction or a makeup malfunction?) era such a source of delight to so many people online? It is actually pretty simple really, and it can be summed up in one word of German origin: Schadenfreude.

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Schadenfreude is defined as the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.
Schadenfreude is a complex emotion, where rather than feeling sympathy toward someone’s misfortune, schadenfreude evokes joyful feelings that take pleasure from watching someone fail.

So people see Betty Kyallo and the see a glamorous woman. They see a celebrity, a businesswoman and the woman who was enough to turn the head of a sitting governor and make him want to risk it all -not quite but you get my point.

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So when Kenyans see something as silly as makeup gone awry then it makes them feel like they have gotten one over on betty kyallo. They see that and feel better about their situations and so they mock her.

Kenyans are forgetting that in this life, we are all fighting our own struggles and battles and in the grand scheme of things, makeup really isn’t that big a deal.

But hey, who am I to make you have to think deeper and wider? Enjoy your seven chuckles then go back to what you need to focus on to make ends meet. Afterall, I am not here to steal your joy regardless of how silly I think it to be.

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