Instead of bashing this week's Yimlo participant, Twitter decided to defend her "prostitution tendencies" and blamed black tax for pushing her into selling herself short.
Rebecca wrote to Yimlo to ask that Dineo Ranaka help her tell her family the truth about the double life she's been living. She revealed that she had several boyfriends and she slept with all of them for money to send back home.
She had to break the news to her family that she'd been sending money provided by these men and that she had disregarded getting an education because of her love for finer things.
Twitter felt sorry for her and understood what she meant when she said the "Jo'burg pressure to look successful" got to her and that she wanted to make her family proud by taking care of them. A thing they call black tax.
They sympathised with her and had just the right memes for the occasion:
She never told them about a job yet they accept her money, where do they think it comes from? A trust? #yimlo pic.twitter.com/yHRgFqZL0w
— 🌷♈🇿🇦 (@mbali_me) March 27, 2018
You can't feel fine while sleeping with 4 men,at the age of 21 yet you don't love them #YimLo pic.twitter.com/QueoxncisL
— SHEPHERD (@MalumeSharepart) March 27, 2018
#yimlo Joburg's not for everyone...it's not for the faint-hearted...You must know your story whe you come from far & wide...or else it will "swallow" you... pic.twitter.com/g4OaJRq06U
— The1stHotellaQueen (@hotellaqueen007) March 27, 2018
Ladies Education is important let us not take it for Granted #yimlo pic.twitter.com/2kzsYuQArj
— Africa's own Red Beryl💛👑 (@msvavavoom) March 27, 2018
This thing called LIFE it's tough guys😭😭😭 #yimlo pic.twitter.com/9jy3lwDAKi
— MissD (@Dineo_Magaseng) March 20, 2018
Let's all appreciate our mothers more, too many people's are derailed once they lose their mothers and it's heartbreaking to watch. #Yimlo pic.twitter.com/m6nI7acs7b
— Mmamati (@luciaralepobe) March 27, 2018
Don't let Materialistic things ruin your dignity #yimlo pic.twitter.com/kasXg5XbrK
— Africa's own Red Beryl💛👑 (@msvavavoom) March 27, 2018
Hao several boyfriends nyana and you guys judge?
— Brienne of Tarth (@_rabo__) March 27, 2018
#yimlo pic.twitter.com/BouAjlCRQj
😭😭😭 I blame poverty for all this #Yimlo pic.twitter.com/Jyw6ZVHS4a
— Penny Namane (@penny_namane) March 27, 2018
We all like the finer things in life that's why most of us have JOBS #YimLo pic.twitter.com/J9ZOdKEzXN
— MaKhumalo (@KumaloMajo) March 27, 2018
