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Demi Adejuyigbe Thinks You Should Only Post 3 Times a Day
Demi Adejuyigbe wants government-mandated dance classes for all men—or so he told Kareem Rahma on Subway Takes. It’s hard not to like the idea of a world where everyone boogies as hard as the comedian does, whether in his iconic series of annual music videos set to Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” or the absurd musical numbers from his celebrated one-man shows. (The title of his Edinburgh Fringe debut advertised that he would also do a backflip on stage). Between his countless pursuits as a 21st-century renaissance man, including DJ sets, TV writing, podcasting, and film photography, Adejuyigbe somehow finds time to reply to every text and to research visual effects in movies. Like LeBron James in his favorite meme, he is truly “smiling through it all.”
It's a very default one. I just need something that’s not going to sound like anything else. I don't do a custom tone, because I feel like I could very simply just be like, “Oh, it's this song,” but I need something that will be annoying very quickly.
I get notifications for it, and I’m always like, “That's none of my business.” I'm on my phone a lot. I use my phone in my show. I record things.
It was revealed that the CEO [of Spotify] was [investing in] AI companies and military contractors, and that was the last straw. I continually hear about how bad Spotify is, and I have so many musician friends who are just like, “The residuals suck.” It's not a good one to use if you support musicians. So I was just like, “Fuck it, I'm going to switch.” And when they were doing ICE ads, I was like, “Yeah, let's get off this.”
I missed the UI so much, but I've gotten used to Apple Music so much now that it just feels sort of like the lesser of two evils. Not like Apple's a good company, but you know.
I'm actually bad at answering emails, but my unread count is never crazy, because it's always purposeful: “I want this to be unread until I've responded, until I've marked it.” And I get very anxious sometimes when I get an email, even when it's something from a specific person or something I'm waiting on. I'm like, “I'm not in the place to answer that right now,” and then it just falls down the list.
I'm very good at responding to texts, especially because why pretend I'm not on my phone all the time? When I see the text, I'll respond to it. If I ever have a high count of unread texts, I just got out of a movie and the group chat has been talking about something.
It’s an Instagram game show that popped up for me a couple of days ago. Someone asks people on the street to guess certain movies by audio playing from the movies, and I watched like 20 of those in a row.
I'll comment if it’s by a friend and I know the comment will be helpful for the algorithm or whatever. In general, I see it like I'm at the zoo—I don't need to interact with that. It's just a thing that I enjoy, and then I walk away.
Also, if I comment and people reply to me, I will get notifications and I'll be annoyed, so I mostly just reply if it's something that I think is helpful or constructive or they will be happy to see. If it's a stranger, I almost never comment because who's that for? Unless, again, it's really funny and I just want to write “hahahaha.”