PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG is one of the most popular video games of 2018. It may have crossed 100 million downloads on iOS and Android platforms combined, but that puny number doesn’t intrigue 63-year-old business tycoon Anand Mahindra.
Mahindra, much like our parents would, asked Twitter what PUBG meant. Unlike millennials who would rather Google than suffer the embarrassment of not knowing.
On Wednesday, Mahindra was perplexed when a Twitter user asked him how a tractor with his company’s logo ended up on one of the vehicles in the video game. He said, “Ok, I admit I’m embarrassed. I try to keep abreast of the latest happenings in the world but what on earth is PUBG? And of course I’m pleased a Mahindra tractor figures in it. What happens to the tractor, by the way?”
Ok, I admit I’m embarrassed. I try to keep abreast of the latest happenings in the world but what on earth is PUBG? And of course I’m pleased a Mahindra tractor figures in it. What happens to the tractor, by the way? https://t.co/AtRh3Woz62
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) August 29, 2018
It was YouTuber chocoTaco who first spotted the Mahindra tractor in PUBG. Since then several others have also noticed the tractor and have demanded an explanation from him.
Ok, I admit I’m embarrassed. I try to keep abreast of the latest happenings in the world but what on earth is PUBG? And of course I’m pleased a Mahindra tractor figures in it. What happens to the tractor, by the way? https://t.co/AtRh3Woz62
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) August 29, 2018
Mahindra tractor goes global with #PUBG pic.twitter.com/hlq6V87KZx
— Singh (@Anuuuuurag) August 23, 2018
Could this really be it?
@MahindraRise tractors in @pubg #pubg #mobile Mahindra 2651 DI tractor. pic.twitter.com/U3ltRY0B1U— jems_n_crystals (@jems_n_crystals) August 20, 2018
Wow… Wonderful to a see a Global brand from India featuring in @PUBGMOBILE. Unintentional oversight. @MahindraRise@AnandMahindra @Mahindratractor https://t.co/d8epAwZN8N
— Navkender Singh (@navkendar_IDC) August 29, 2018
While a few of the Twitterati try to enlighten him about the game, they also point out how the vehicle with the Mahindra logo is just a prop in the game.
It’s a game sir and it’s a non usable prop in the game we can hide behind it and it will protect us from like grenades … Bullets etc… Great job #mahindra….
The game is based on like hunger games 100 people jump from a plane find guns.And kill others. The last one wins pic.twitter.com/GZcVL9uBiN— Mayuresh Patil India (@MayureshIndia) August 29, 2018
One even suggested that the tractor needs servicing
Nothing it needs service only . For being not used for long time, I tried to start it pic.twitter.com/jfmQ4B56b8
— Arun gajja (@Arungajja1) August 29, 2018
It’s a game every house is battling with their children.
— the – resistance (@demiguise77) August 29, 2018
