Even as they explained the appeal of self-improvement advice, Millennials also critically examined it, with one interviewee remarking that these articles suggest, "If you do these five things, you will become the person you are reading about….It's like, well, they also have eyes, so does that mean if I also have eyes I will also be Elon Musk?
There were cases of physical assault: hitting, spitting, and slapping a nurse, and verbal assault: "They are bossy and they like bullying (us)," another interviewee remarked.
Finally, as one interviewee remarked, journals "want to increase their impact factor".
One industry interviewee remarked that ' [w]e can't and shouldn't have to compete with university departments'.
For example, when talking about the February 2009 heat wave one interviewee remarked: It's been very, very hot.
In the same vein, another interviewee remarked: " In our village there was one businessman who used to sell stage show girls to earn money".
One interviewee remarked: " It's fine to say 'It's OK to Ask'… but who do they think is going to be around to give the answers?" (Interviewee 5).
One interviewee remarked: " Among a small community (name withheld), there is a practice of a father of the groom to have sex with his daughter-in-law before his son so as to bless his marriage".
One interviewee remarked: " Yes, during disko vumbi youth go for wanenguaji (stage show girls) particularly during msimu wa pamba (cotton buying season) when youth have money from cotton sales and have sex with them.
On the other hand, another interviewee remarked that many such trials "are run through... companies which know that if they don't do those things they will be in trouble... they are usually under the umbrella of some international pharma company".
