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Mumbai Police: The Twitter Heroes We Didn’t Know We Needed
If the Varun Dhawan case is any indication, Mumbai’s finest are using Twitter to police the city, one Stranger Things meme and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai GIF at a time.
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Moral Police or Pervert? The Anatomy of an Online Troll
Indian trolls are mostly sanskari or sleazy AF, but instead of squabbling among themselves, they get along just fine. In fact, they are two sides of the same coin, and more often than we know, the moral police turns out to be the pervert.
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And the Chief Non-Guest at the Sonam Kapoor-Anand Ahuja Wedding Is…
The Sonam Kapoor-Anand Ahuja shaadi is a sacred occasion for every Bollywood wedding’s chief non-guest: the paparazzi. For the great Indian pap, it’s also a trying time, solely because it necessitates that they give up doing groundbreaking work on two of the most pertinent issues of today: airport looks and documenting Taimur’s afternoons.
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Dear T-Pain, “Brown Twitter” Really? FYI, 500 Million Indians Use the Internet
T-Pain allegedly plagiarised Arijit Singh’s “Tum Hi Ho” and then lashed out at “brown Twitter” after the internet outrage. Only if the rapper knew that India has the second-largest internet population in the world. Mr T-Pain, you weren’t throwing shade at some geeks sitting on the sole computer in a hamlet.
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Does Vivek Oberoi Remind You of That Ex Who Still Stalks You on Instagram?
Thanks to Vivek Oberoi and his distasteful meme, plebeians like me know what it feels like to be Aishwarya Rai, if only for a few brief seconds. You know, the ex who lurks around your Facebook and Instagram profiles, passive-aggressively liking your photos from 10 years ago at 3 am? Vivek O reminds me of that guy.
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What Came First, the Egg or Instagram Stardom?
A humble single-celled egg has dethroned Instagram queen Kylie Jenner, making everyone who thinks social media is a place to show off the craft they’ve spent years perfecting, look like a giant self-promoting twit.
Posted inTechnology
Why Are We Freaking Out About LinkedIn’s Red Light District?
Social media is only following Rule 34 of the internet – if something exists online, a porn version of it must exist too. Social media’s Rule 34 avatar is sexual media. And LinkedIn’s Red Light District is only a by-product of this.
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Hardik Pandya Might Become a Better Celebrity, But it’ll Take More than Our Outrage to Change Him
Men like Hardik Pandya are simply by-products of decades of patriarchy that has always seen women as somebody’s property – not somebody. And they will continue to air their dirty mindsets in private even after their public censuring.
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Abhishek Bachchan Does Not Deserve the Trolls, But He Doesn’t Deserve Multiple Comebacks Either
Abhishek Bachchan does not deserve the hate he gets, but he also does not deserve multiple “second chances”. He is charming and has the gift of the gab, but he is not an efficient actor. It’s time Bollywood stops celebrating his many comebacks.
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Grief in the Age of Social Media
Modern grief, the kind that lives on the internet, is a whole world away from old-world grief, the kind you preserved inside of you. The modern take on grieving is to share and tweet about it.