Why I Left Slay Queen for Comedy - Ashmusy

Amarachi Amusi popularly known on Instagram and across social media as Ashmusy is an online skit maker, content creator, and comedienne. She currently boasts over 600,000 followers on her Instagram page alone and has performed in skits alongside some of Nigeria's most popular skit makers.

But Ashmusy wasn't always a content creator. In fact, when she started her Instagram page, her content was leaning towards more "slay queen" branding. Now in an interview with TVC's Wake Up Nigeria, Ashmusy is opening up about why exactly she left the slay queen aesthetic to pursue comedy and skit making with her full chest.

Here's what Ashmusy said.

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Before Ashmusy revealed why she left slay queening for comedy, she first revealed how long creating content takes. Ashmusy revealed that by far one of her most popular skits, the Zee World movie skit below took 6 hours to film.

She said about the shooting time:

Getting the story is usually the main point cuz when you have the story, you can always shoot and edit and it goes well. So getting the story is usually not so easy. Sometimes it takes nights of thinking, sometimes it takes maybe watching some movies to get inspiration, figure out ideas and all that, but I've kind of gotten used to it already.

That particular skit took us about 4, 5 hours to shoot. Or I think 6 hours, let's say 6 hours to shoot. It wasn't difficult per se, but everybody had to get their part perfectly and that would take time. From the running to the chest breathing.

When asked why she entered into comedy and skit making, Ashmusy opened up to TVC saying:

I finished serving in 2017 and so I wanted to do skits, I wanted to start shooting but then I didn't know how to start. I don't know how to translate from a slay queen, because then I was a local slay queen that year, to a skit maker. And you know for comedy, you have to be somehow ugly or you have to be free or something so it wasn't easy for me at all. But I found somebody, Ada Jesus, and we were so alike. We were like twinnies. We met somewhere we went to shoot a skit. So when I heard her talk that day because she was in the room with me that day, she sounded like me and so I was like "Ah ah, who is talking like me like this?" I now saw her, we were now somehow the same skin color, we looked alike somehow. Then I was like, "Okay, you want to act?" she said yes. She asked me, "you want to act?" I said yes too. So we were like, "Fine, let's start together," because it's going to be easier starting with somebody than starting alone, that's how we saw it that time. So we started together, started making our videos, and that's how it entered.

Now that she's started and you've watched her skits, what do you think? Do you like Ashmusy's comedy? Do you think she should have stuck to the slay queen branding or do you think the switch to comedy was the right move? Let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment on my Facebook post.

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