TECSIONBW PUTS SMILES ON FACES WITH HUMOROUS MEMES

Mosupiemang recalls that he was the class clown when he was in junior school. He sometimes made jokes during class, which got him into water as he would be dragged to the staff room where he would be punished. He said whenever he was absent from school, his classmates would tell him that their day was boring without him. “That is when realised how funny and entertaining I was,” he said.

After completing secondary school, he moved from Maun to Gaborone, and enrolled in courses in Information Technology and Graphic, which he did not complete due to financial difficulties. That was when the opportunity to do comedy came up as he started exploring his talented. He explained that initially, comedy was not something that he took seriously, but his friends and colleagues convinced him otherwise. “They told me that comedy was like my calling because my jokes were relatable and they would always crack up at the things I did and said.”

Mosupiemang started the page Tecsion BW on Facebook a few years ago, and the page has grown in leaps and bounds. It is the go-to place for a meme fix for those looking for a dose of humour for his thousands of followers who have become like family and friends to him. He said he finds inspiration for his memes anywhere. “I usually connect the dots on something that I have learned or seen. I read a lot of articles, blog posts, websites and also check out different people’s tweets and funny posts. Sometimes I would just look at a picture of someone laughing and I would use my creativity to imagine what they could be laughing at and a joke just comes to mind,” he said. His page also gave Mosupiemang the platform to showcase his clothing range, dubbed Crazy Minds. He said he started the clothing label for personal wear but demand for the merchandise propelled him to commercialise. “I started Crazy Minds clothing label as a personal label I wear since I realised that most people wear international clothing labels – and I wanted to be different. To my surprise, many other people started asking me to print for them and I started receiving calls from different parts of the country for orders,” he said.

Mosupiemang cited lack of machinery and startup capital as some of the challenges he faced when starting out but he persevered. He expressed pride that he now has paying clients although he has to find ways to adapt to the current economic climate. “We used to have an office but due to the Covid19 related lockdowns and subsequent economic challenges, we were forced to close it. We now do deliveries through courier services,” he said. He added that he and his business partner, Laone Sethoko, a graphic designer and photographer, are working on a project that will house all local clothing brands and creative offerings.