[2] Kivi has later worked as a producer of stand up comedy festivals and wrote scripts for the satire shows Noin viikon uutiset and Yle Leaks.
[1][4] Iikka Kivi spent his childhood in Ylivieska and has graduated as a medianomist from the Oulu University of Applied Sciences.
He has said he had previously been a racist supporter of Jussi Halla-aho and the Finns Party, spreading anti-immigrant hatred on the Internet.
[1] In connection with the Me Too movement in autumn 2017 Kivi told he had been guilty of sexual harassment in his childhood and youth.
[7] In September the same year Kivi quit his job as a columnist as a protest against a propaganda advertisement of the Chinese government published on the front page.