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When authentic voice conflicts with commercial success

I've been trying to write comedy that reflects my Ghanaian upbringing but every joke feels either too niche for mainstream audiences or too watered down for my own community.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The pressure to be understood by everyone is forcing you to compromise the very specificity that makes your perspective valuable.

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