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Happiness, the creator at the centre of DUBAWA’s investigation into erotic Yorùbá livestreams, has opened a new account after TikTok took down his accounts with 447,000 combined followers. He is now migrating users to Telegram with a payment of N1,000.
Background
DUBAWA’s investigation, published on Sept. 5, 2026, found that creators had been hosting explicit sexual shows in Yorùbá on TikTok. The sessions have been running despite TikTok’s policy that prohibits sexually explicit language.
The platform said the creators did not violate its community guidelines when DUBAWA reported the live sessions. This was because TikTok’s moderation infrastructure has no documented capacity to detect explicit content in Yorùbá.
However, TikTok banned two accounts five days after DUBAWA submitted a list of 15 accounts to its Outreach and Partnerships Manager, Duduzile Mkhize. TikTok deleted Old Taker, which had 89,000 followers, and Adun, which had 11,000.
Then came Sept. 8, three days after DUBAWA’s main publication, when TikTok removed five more. They included Happiness’ main account with 296,000 followers; two of his backup accounts with 87,700 and 63,800 followers, respectively; Yinka TNT with 155,500 followers; and Kalifiat Odunayo with 376,100 followers.
While these accounts were taken down, Happiness still had one backup account left with 21,000 followers. Old Taker’s backup account with 8,000 followers is still up.
But DUBAWA had already flagged concerns about the ban method. We reported that creators could still open new accounts and start over. Also, screen recordings of these sessions still circulate freely on TikTok, X, and Telegram.
Happiness returns with a fresh TikTok account
As DUBAWA forewarned, Happiness returned on Sept. 9, 2026, with a new TikTok account. He went live using his last standing backup account, which has 21,000 followers, to mobilise people to follow the new one. As of Sept. 11, the new account garnered 206 followers.
Happiness and his co-facilitators addressed the bans openly during the session recorded here. They lamented losing gifts and followers they had accumulated across the three accounts taken down on Sept. 8.
“Please, we beg you in God’s name, help us follow this new account. We’re pleading with you. We’re not making demands. We’re just pleading. May you not work in vain. May you not bury your child with the hand you’re using to follow. Please, thank you, thank you. Help us follow the account,” T-Cash, a co-facilitator, begged the audience in Yorùbá.
Happiness added that “it’d be nice if we could get it to 100 followers today so I can begin to make posts with it. Please, help us.”
But Ara, another co-facilitator, was aggressive. “Are we even supposed to be begging you people to follow? With the amount of girls that some of you have gotten from our livestream?” she also said in Yorùbá.
When audience members suggested investigating and identifying who was responsible for making TikTok take down the three accounts in one day, Happiness declined. He said he had accepted his fate.
Happiness then announced that he had opened a Telegram channel, and interested followers could pay N1,000 to join.