THE digital radio personality and media personality Tbo Touch has been roasted for a tweet where he suggested one's "mental disposition" was the only difference between success and a life of poverty on the streets.
Tbo Touch, whose real name is Thabo Molefe, was roasted by the Black Twitter faithful who said they were hurt by his inference.
Tbo Touch, who heads up the digital radio station, Touch HD, had tweeted late on Tuesday evening:
"The only difference between the guy I just drove pass begging in streets and myself is our mental disposition. Let's change how we THINK".
The only difference between the guy I just drove pass begging in streets and myself is our mental disposition. Let's change how we THINK🙏🏾
— Tbo Touch (@iamtbotouch) July 18, 2017 By midday on Wednesday, Tbo Touch had not responded to the criticism leveled at him, but instead had tweeted pictures of his servings on a trip to Nigeria.
What the entrepreneur had hoped to be an inspiring tweet was seen as a "fake deep" tweet by the twitterati.
You can't travel to Lagos and not eat Egusi soup with yam. The hospitality is breathtaking. This trip is way too blessed pic.twitter.com/6OdGyXWkI2
— Tbo Touch (@iamtbotouch) July 18, 2017
Angered by Tbo Touch's tweets, the twitterati responded:
Life is harder than you make it sound Touch. Trust. No one starts out in life with the negative intention of ending up begging on the street
— StyleByBBM (@bongiwemhlalasa) July 18, 2017
Dude! He makes it seem like people just wake up and choose to be poor and live in poverty
— Mazet (@umuntuZa_) July 18, 2017
the more I read this statement from Touch the more upset I get. It's rough outhere man for most of us. Anyone can end up on the streets...
— StyleByBBM (@bongiwemhlalasa) July 18, 2017 And some got personal and attacked Tbo Touch about his accent.
The "deep fakeness" of this tweet is about as fake as your twang.
Please delete this. It sounds like privilege. It's nauseating and very aloof. Please check it out. And you know I got your back!
— Manqoba Ngubo (@manqoba_ngubo) July 18, 2017
Rubbish there is such a thing as luck and circumstances . You know nothing about the guys background .
— Jenifer (@SteynJenifer) July 19, 2017
The ONLY thing..REALLY,LIKE SERIOUSLY pic.twitter.com/6ex2FqOa8E
— miss mathabo (@mathabose8) July 19, 2017 And there were memes to drive the point through to one of South Africa's most popular radio DJs.
Tbo Touch could have just driven home and not tweeted. But no, nithanda i-relevance pic.twitter.com/RnHWS4nfDd
— Malum' Lady Mormont (@Mondli_Mashoban) July 18, 2017
So Tbo Touch thinks people wake up and choose to be homeless and poor. pic.twitter.com/90hqnR0fJ1
— IG: @AdvBarryRoux (@AdvBarryRoux) July 19, 2017
Tbo Touch enjoy it neh. pic.twitter.com/Qe1ef5bLYt