What is 6ixBuzz? An Instagram annual with two actor followers. A YouTube channel. The abutting big affair in Canadian media. A articulation for diverse, generally blank communities surrounding the burghal core. A beginning rap label. A agenda sweatshop. A acutely divisive, sometimes biased agreeable media feed. The answers alter depending on who you ask. If 6ixBuzz were a archetypal media organization, I’d put the catechism to the company’s founders, but they banned my appeal for an annual unless I agreed to accumulate their identities a secret. Why? That’s complicated too.
Back in 2017, aback it all started—before the premier, Jagmeet Singh, Jake Paul, Drake and John Tory followed 6ixBuzz—no one cared what it was or who ran it. The annual was the abstraction of two George Brown College acceptance alleged Sarman Esagholian and Abraham Tekabo. They came of age with phones in their hands, admired hip hop, Toronto and memes, and absitively to brew those interests together. They created a basal Instagram account, abounding of agreeable that mimicked that of Say Cheese TV, a accepted Texas-based media start-up that trafficked in bounded news, sports highlights and clips of artery rappers freestyling. Its founder, Shawn Cotton, had abdicate his minimum-wage job charwoman accessories at a Best Buy administration centre, and with $27 in his coffer annual launched the blog in 2011.
Esagholian and Tekabo were aggressive by Cotton’s success, but breadth Say Cheese (and others like it, including WorldStarHipHop) was based in the U.S. and featured mostly American content, 6ixBuzz would focus on Toronto annual and artists, added the abounding funny, infuriating, jaw-dropping, arguable things adolescent bodies were accomplishing and seeing in the burghal and its surrounding municipalities.
The 6ixBuzz annual grew quickly. For abounding kids in Brampton, Scarborough, Mississauga, Etobicoke and beyond, the augment was a mirror absorption their acquaintance aback at them: the aliment cloister dynamics, esplanade hangouts, parking lot meetups, arrears drinking. The agreeable was generally authentic, funny, memorable and, aloft all, familiar.
That’s not to say it was consistently wholesome. The augment was curated for best views. The raunchier, racier or added shocking, the better. Esagholian and Tekabo appear posts assuming confrontations involving bodies aboveboard disturbing with brainy illness, clear car accidents, attempted home break-ins captured on Ring cameras, the cheeky and aggravation of Subway and Dollarama employees, as able-bodied as memes with racist, sexist and homophobic undertones. Often, 6ixBuzz would annual the column with a neutral, advancing catechism like, “What y’all anticipate of this???” in the caption.
News alternative seemed predicated on the approach that adolescent bodies capital to apperceive what was activity on in their burghal but weren’t activity to tune in to the nightly advertisement or aces up a cardboard to acquisition out. Best of the annual clips were short, phone-friendly summaries of letters from added publications. The images were adventurous and featured captions accounting in a conversational, generally agreeable way.
Whether by architecture or by accident, the blueprint worked. By January 2018, six months afterwards they launched, 6ixBuzz had 60,000 followers. That aforementioned month, 6ixBuzz republished a column from a Torontonian with the handle @mwhonder, featuring some absolutely bounded content: “A man proposed to his adherent in the [Scarborough Boondocks Centre] aliment cloister while they were bistro inferior chickens… I’m annoyed of Scarborough.” It was as agreeable as it was forgettable—until Drake, who had afresh followed the account, larboard a comment: “East End Fairytale.” Practically overnight, the annual swelled by 10,000 followers. Tekabo filed paperwork to absorb 6ixBuzz, assuredly entering his name (and afterwards Esagholian’s, too) in the searchable federal business anthology for anyone who cared to attending it up online.
Around the aforementioned time, 6ixBuzz aggregate a video of a York University apprentice who hopped assimilate the aback of a TTC alternation car and took a joyride through the tunnel. The video bent the absorption of boilerplate annual networks. Aback Global Annual ran the story, they accustomed 6ixBuzz. Two months later, 6ixBuzz hit 200,000 followers. By midsummer, it accomplished 360,000.
Soon, bodies were creating agreeable in the hopes 6ixBuzz ability repost it. In December of 2018, 6ixBuzz appear a video of a adolescent man casting a armchair over the balustrade of a high-rise balustrade in burghal Toronto. The camera follows the chair’s aisle to the Gardiner far below, breadth it smashes on the pavement. The man abaft the camera laughs, blithely chanting: “6ixBuzz, 6ixBuzz, 6ixBuzz…” Two months later, Marcella Zoia, now accepted as “chair girl,” again the stunt.
By July 2019, 6ixBuzz claimed they were accepting up to 2,000 absolute letters a day, abounding of them agreeable submissions. Amid those hopefuls were bodies like James Potok, a 28-year-old aggressive artisan who, during a flight from Toronto to Jamaica in the aboriginal canicule of the pandemic, stood up and appear that he had aloof alternate from China and wasn’t activity well, bidding the pilot to about-face the alike around. Potok’s motivation? He said he was acquisitive to go viral on 6ixBuzz. That achievement accustomed all-embracing coverage, advocacy 6ixBuzz’s contour alike further.
Yet admitting the actualization of 6ixBuzz as a arch agreeable media force, its creators remained a abstruseness to about anybody who followed it, which gave Esagholian and Tekabo an added superpower: awning to column whatever they wanted, to act on their basest instincts with impunity. Some posts angered Bramptonians for actuality outsiders, others would apish Somalis with racist stereotypes. They encouraged commenters to insult anniversary other—about what? Anything.
In a burghal abounding with cultural and bounded hostilities, 6ixBuzz became the abode for clashing factions to meet. In one post, a video shows three associates of the Menace Assemblage from Alexandra Esplanade continuing alfresco a Regent Esplanade architecture complex—effectively adversary turf—flashing huge abounding of banknote as if adventuresome their enemies to appear and respond.
6ixBuzz was about disseminating assemblage propaganda. Afore long, the animadversion sections became miniature battlegrounds, with two faceless lords of war, Esagholian and Tekabo, sitting in the shadows, watching anarchy ensue. The replies became so poisonous that followers would commonly antic that “unfollowing 6ixBuzz is a anatomy of self-care.” Such criticism was articulate best acutely in May of 2020, aback Mustafa (formerly Mustafa the Poet), a Grammy-winning songwriter, singer, artisan and filmmaker from Toronto, tweeted “6ixBuzz pits communities adjoin anniversary other.”
After 6ixBuzz had acquaint yet addition meme that angered Somalis, some associates of that association became agitated abundant to maybe do commodity about it. Someone apparently looked up 6ixBuzz’s business allotment advice and, on a Somali-Canadian bulletin board, affiliated to an angel of Tekabo and issued a alarm for violence: “Here he is 6ixers abolition abolition purge… billow him on afterimage annihilate him wherever you see him no mercy.” No one anytime acted on the alarm to arms, but it was an adumbration of how actively 6ixBuzz was actuality taken.
Around that time, the founders were starting to monetize their belvedere and weren’t about to change tack. They were charging $10,000 to run a sponsored betrayal or agnate challenge on their capital account. The amount of a sponsored column assorted from $5,000 to $7,000. An ad on their Instagram story, which would be alive for alone 24 hours, amount $2,500.
The meme game, in added words, was good. Aback the alpha of the pandemic, Tekabo has travelled to Abu Dhabi, Miami, Los Angeles and Vancouver, spending time at affluence arcade malls, rooftop beyond pools and yacht parties.
Esagholian admired hip hop from an aboriginal age. By Brand 5, he had become a fan of Drake, aggressive that a artistic kid from Toronto could accomplish it big on the all-embracing date while blockage abiding here. But in academy Esagholian was balked by the limitations he saw about him. Music chic was a abode to apprentice to comedy an instrument, only—there was no advantage to apprentice about the business ancillary of music. By the time he was in his backward teens, he knew he capital to be allotment of the ball industry. He wasn’t abundant of an artisan himself, but he had a adroitness for spotting aptitude and for throwing acclaimed parties.
In the bounce of 2016, a year afore 6ixBuzz’s launch, Esagholian was acclimation approved hip-hop nights with the advice of his earlier brother and some friends, beneath the name KnowYork. Their contest popped up about boondocks that summer, and by September, they had anchored a annual aperture at the Wallen bistro and lounge (now closed) on Queen West. They broadcast to Ottawa, bringing acts like Puffy L’z and the backward Toronto-based rapper Smoke Dawg—both members, alongside Mustafa, of the Regent Esplanade hip-hop aggregate Halal Gang—to the Bourbon Room, a bi-level bistro on Rideau Artery with a accommodation of about 500. It was almost baby time, but they could advertise out the space.
It was about this time that Esagholian and Tekabo noticed a gap in the Canadian music industry. So abounding of the rap artists KnowYork was putting on date at baby venues were about apprenticed in place, career-wise. There was no apparatus for boilerplate discovery. Admitting the actuality that Drake and the Weeknd had both emerged from Toronto to common fame, there seemed to be no acceptance in the industry that Canada would aftermath addition brilliant like them. Or at atomic it seemed no one alfresco of the Weeknd’s XO Records and Drake’s OVO Sound capital to put in the accomplishment to acquisition out.
To advice ample the void, 6ixBuzz purchased a YouTube approach from James Dare, a adolescent administrator and video editor and the man abaft Kushdup Filmsz, a assembly aggregation that attempt music videos for bounded rappers. Dare had started his belvedere with the ambition of architecture a abode breadth bodies could go to ascertain new Canadian talent. But by the time Tekabo approached him, he had stepped aback from the venture. Still, it was an accustomed annual with believability and an audience. Dare awash his approach to the brace in what he characterized to me as a mutually benign deal. Esagholian and Tekabo rebranded the approach as 6ixBuzz Premieres and began shooting, bearing and announcement music videos for arising rap talent.
Esagholian afflicted ascendancy of the capital Instagram account, while Tekabo gravitated against the music ancillary of things. (Their duties generally alloyed aback the capital annual acquaint clips from music videos—although they’d carelessness to accompaniment whether or not the posts were paid for by artists). Word travelled fast about 6ixBuzz’s role in the city’s rap scene. A scattering of artists, all with able online audiences of their own, followed the account: Puffy L’z; Yung Tory, who’s aback been active to Timbaland’s Mosley Music Accumulation and Def Jam Recordings; and LB Spiffy, a rapper from the Jane and Finch area. The accepted ambassador Murda Beatz followed too.
Soon, 6ixBuzz was added than aloof an Instagram feed. It was a apparent music label, too. Their aboriginal album, 6ixUpsideDown, included acts Esagholian had featured with KnowYork—Top5, Archee and 3MFrench—as able-bodied as LB Spiffy, Pressa and the backward Houdini. The anthology charted for a anniversary on Billboard’s Canadian albums list, peaking at No. 87.
Over the years, some acceptable annual outlets accomplished out to 6ixBuzz, absent to apperceive who was abaft the annual anybody beneath 25 seemed to follow. Vice and a scattering of blogs appear features, and in anniversary case the founders alternate alone on action of anonymity. Toronto Life capital to apperceive too. In 2019, this annual assigned a biographer to accommodated with Esagholian, but wouldn’t accede to his appeal to accumulate the founders’ names secret. 6ixBuzz had become a bona fide media aperture and a antecedent of annual for hundreds of bags of Canadians, and they adapted to apperceive who was accouterment that information. Aback Esagholian heard that his name would be used, he angry menacing, calling the biographer incessantly—dozens of times in the amount of 15 minutes—and aback he didn’t get the acknowledgment he wanted, Esagholian said it would be a botheration if bodies begin out breadth the anchorman and his ancestors slept at night. The biographer backed out, and the annual assigned the allotment to addition journalist. This time it was Tekabo’s about-face to affair agnate warnings. That biographer additionally alone the pursuit.
When asked, Esagholian and Tekabo would sometimes say the anonymity was important as a way to accomplish mystique. Added times, they’d advance it was to assure them from retribution. So it came as no abruptness when, afterwards I requested interviews, the founders agreed but alone if I buried their identities. Aback I wouldn’t accede to their agreement and connected to ability out to sources afterwards their participation, Tekabo ordered me via argument to stop talking to bodies about the company. Aback I asked why he should be accepted anonymity, he replied: “I accept asleep friends. A lot of them.” I sympathized with him, yet both their names were already calmly begin on Google, and abundant tweets articular them, alongside photos of their faces. And if they were absolutely anxious about violence, why were they arising threats themselves?
What is a media aggregation in 2021? With its abiding accession of followers and advertisers, 6ixBuzz had finer become one, and the industry they’d wandered into was in turmoil. Legacy brands were aggravating to survive and break accordant amidst cutting antagonism from Facebook and crumbling book revenue, amid added existential crises; meanwhile, 6ixBuzz was accouterment a alluring case abstraction in 21st-century cast building. Breadth best new media companies absorb a baby affluence on creating a brand, affairs or renting offices, hiring staff, and aggravating to attraction and abound an audience, 6ixBuzz had done it all in reverse. They’d congenital a loyal afterward on the bargain application a chargeless platform, again acclimated that admirers to abound the aggregation into a accepted amateur to accepted brands. They brought in collaborators, a sales team, designers and agents to advice run the enterprise. They controlled costs acknowledgment to subsidized appointment space—first at Yonge and Dundas, as an accessory affiliate of Ryerson’s Agenda Marketing Zone, and again at Yonge and Sheppard in barter for some array of promotion, according to a source.
Part of their success was attributable to their audience: the ever-covetable adolescence demographic. And those kids weren’t some maybe-possibly absorbed citizens who had appear beyond a column already or alert in their online travels; they were absolute bodies who had carefully clicked “follow” on 6ixBuzz’s account. To sponsors, that aggregate of adolescence and adherence was authentic gold. For admiral attractive to get their bulletin out to adolescent people, 6ixBuzz—which by January of 2021 had two actor followers—made a lot of sense.
There was an added allure, too: it seemed that for every few hundred abhorrent posts, there was some accommodating 6ixBuzz initiative. In 2018, they ran four dropoff locations for Toy Mountain, a anniversary toy drive benefiting the Salvation Army. The afterward year, they organized a Thanksgiving aliment drive central the DMZ Sandbox at the Ryerson Apprentice Learning Centre. Again they partnered with Nelk, a bandage of YouTube pranksters, on a anniversary aliment drive and meetup. Kids and adolescence lined up in droves as if for a Supreme drop, but to accord non-perishables. There was a raffle, the top award-winning actuality an all-embracing cruise to L.A. with the Nelk Boys. 6ixBuzz additionally started active esplanade cleanups, one for Canada Day at Ashbridges Bay and addition during Caribana at Coronation Park. Last year, there was a back-to-school giveback—6ixBuzz-branded backpacks and pencil cases arranged with essentials were broadcast in low-income neighbourhoods about the GTA—and a Thanksgiving turkey advertisement with Shelley Cares Foundation. They additionally sponsored DJ Charlie B’s anniversary toy giveaway.
6ixBuzz was arrive to high-profile panels and gatherings in the tech world. In November 2019, through Ryerson’s DMZ, they were partners, alongside Facebook, in the Canadian Media Innovation Showcase. Speakers included Mayor John Tory, Administrator X and assembly from the Score, CP24, TSN and Warner Music Group. They afterwards met with Clearco, a costs abutting led by administrator and adventure backer Michele Romanow of Dragons Den. In the bounce of 2020, they active a two-album administration accord with Warner Music Canada. They’ve additionally been in talks with assembly from Bell Media to angle allocution shows for MuchMusic. This absolute time, they managed to accumulate their names out of the press.
For all their success, however, there were signs the aggregation wasn’t able for the analysis that comes with active a high-profile business. In the aboriginal canicule of the pandemic, as fears were ascent about a new virus appearing out of Wuhan, 6ixBuzz acquaint a photo of a Markham restaurant alleged Wuhan Noodle 1950. Some 8,000 comments, abounding of them greatly racist, followed. The owners of the restaurant accustomed antic buzz calls, and say they absent two-thirds of their business, which the buyer chalked up to the agreeable media attention.
Last year, 6ixBuzz landed a accord with Foot Locker to advance a abridged accumulating of 6ixBuzz-branded T-shirts, which Foot Locker would banal and sell. But aback agents at retail food beyond the GTA unboxed the artefact a anniversary afore it was activity to hit the floor, abounding were aghast that their employer would accessory with such a alienated brand. They aloft their apropos with commune management. Canicule later, admiral recalled the artefact with the barring of the addition beatific to Yorkdale, which abounding the items for aloof two days. Foot Locker additionally never fabricated the items accessible through their e-commerce site, accepting absitively that the accord was no best “on brand.” In an Instagram column on September 18, 6ixBuzz cited “shipping delays” as the acumen that the accumulating was now alone accessible at Yorkdale. Internally, Esagholian characterized the amount as a altercation over artefact development and that 6ixBuzz had absitively to footfall aback from the collaboration.
Esagholian and Tekabo had bigger things on their minds than the odd bootless contract. They capital to barrage a 6ixBuzz website and app, and that was no baby matter. They’d be demography a apprenticed abroad from Instagram, which would crave added infrastructure, a beyond agents and added money. Plus, it was the aboriginal footfall in axis the business from a annual aggregator into a annual creator. They already had an art and sales department; now they apprenticed an app developer. They assassin freelance writers to abide the armpit afore it went live. Months afore the launch, writers would appear Monday-morning angle meetings, overseen by chief autograph staff. Approved belief were due Friday at 5 p.m. Writers were accepted to complete bristles a week, for $17 to $23 per article—meaning a paltry $100 per anniversary per contributor. Their submissions would be laid out by editors in the website’s aback end.
The barrage was appointed for December 29, 2020. 6ixBuzz bought out billboards beyond the GTA and paid for an activated bivouac to air on the big screens aloft the new Rogers abundance at Yonge-Dundas Square. They assassin a PR professional, who wove a acute backstory: “6ixBuzzTV came from a accumulation of adolescent kids from the burghal who were annoyed of not actuality heard by boilerplate media and gave a articulation to the voiceless.”
But as the barrage neared, the agents writers, none of whom had been paid, began acquainted their accessories dematerialization from the system. It angry out Esagholian was administering higher-ups to annul accessories he no best accounted aces of publishing. Because the affairs assured pay for “published articles,” he wasn’t technically apprenticed to pay for them.
In fact, the acquaintance was constant beyond departments. Sales agents were assassin on a agency of seven to 20 per cent, depending on which posts they were affairs ads for and whether they brought in the applicant or artlessly closed. In some cases, they could be on the border of closing, alone to accept communications with the applicant intercepted by a manager, who would booty over, acceptation the agent couldn’t affirmation agency but would still be amenable for managing the file. Added times, a administrator would abolish a arrangement afterwards it was signed.
According to the nine accepted and above advisers I batten with, Esagholian was as adamant a bang-up as he was ambitious. One agent formed 12- to 15-hour days, unpaid, afterwards weekends off. During the aboriginal canicule of the pandemic, the authorization from Esagholian was to be the aboriginal annual aperture anywhere to allotment updates from the Trudeau and Ford governments. But if staff, alive from home, were moments backward announcement breaking annual or accustomed 10 annual to expire amid tweets, Esagholian would be on the phone. Two above contractors declared the abode as a sweatshop.
When the aggregation absent a pay date on Christmas Day in 2020, disobedience set in. In a 6ixBuzz WhatsApp accumulation for freelancers, writers were abashed to see an editor write, “I debris to assignment for a aggregation that doesn’t pay its writers and editors.” That editor again abdicate and exited the chat. Esagholian, who was in the babble but rarely posted, jumped in to accurate his acknowledgment for everyone’s adamantine work. “We’ve been discussing pay for months in commendations to starting aback the armpit launches,” he wrote. Few were reassured. According to one employee, Esagholian began casting blame at them: “money hungry” and “lazy sacks of shit.” The actual agents threatened to airing out, and some did.
After a six-day standoff, Esagholian paid bisected their behind accomplishment to get the agents aback to work. But ultimately, he had all the power: there was no curtailment of adolescent writers and j-school grads attractive for work, abnormally for a new and antecedent organization. Admitting the aerial turnover, the barrage went advanced as planned. Today, the site’s agreeable spans culture, politics, the communicable and of advance music. In some ways, the website differs from the Instagram feed—less obnoxious, beneath shocking, added professional, added accelerating and inclusive. Contributors accept accounting about Supernaturals Modelling, an Indigenous-owned agency; the auction of 98.7, a bounded Black-owned radio station; and the aperture of Black Endemic Toronto, a Scarborough boutique that grew out of a accepted Instagram folio announcement Canadian businesses. On the music side, 6ixBuzz appear four singles through Warner to aggravate their best contempo album, Canada’s Best Wanted, which accustomed on June 11. The anthology accumulated 15 actor streams on its aboriginal day.
Less than a decade into active Say Cheese TV, Shawn Cotton had become a cultural force. In 2018, the Los Angeles Times alleged him “one of the best affecting abreast tastemakers and cultural chroniclers of artery rap music.” But beneath than a year afterwards the commodity came out, Cotton was so acutely afflicted by the annihilation of his abutting acquaintance and adolescent videographer, Zack Stoner of ZackTV, that he wouldn’t alike leave his abode afterwards a bulletproof belong and his nine-millimetre pistol. By that time, he endemic 11 apartment backdrop and had affairs to buy more. He leaves his hot-pink Corvette anchored in his garage, abashed to advertise his attendance in assemblage territory. He now visits battling neighbourhoods in cities beyond America, cogent human-interest belief from alone communities, and documenting assorted clashes from both sides.
If Cotton’s career trajectory—experimental start-up, agrarian success, blowback, career changes—is a reliable model, again the 6ixBuzz founders assume to be about amid stages two and three. In a contempo Instagram story, Tekabo, who like Esagholian charcoal a behind-the-scenes player, prompted followers on his claimed and clandestine (though faceless) annual to ask him questions. He was at an airport gate, aggravating to canyon the time. As questions came in, he would column them, forth with his answers, in his stories. He aggregate a question—“What fabricated you accomplish 6ixBuzz”—and his answer—“I was brokeeee”—superimposed over a folio from his brand academy yearbook. His face in the alum photo was covered, but his anniversary adduce was visible: “In 10 years I’ll be richer than all of you guys.”
This adventure appears in the September 2021 affair of Toronto Life magazine. To subscribe for aloof $29.95 a year, bang here.
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