All India Bakchod is known to be quite the notorious lot. The India-based comedy group co-founded by Tanmay Bhat has been the centre of several controversies over the years, be it their uncensored roast ‘AIB Knockout’ or Bhat’s imitation of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and playback singer Lata Mangeshkar. This time, AIB is on the ropes and coincidentally it is Snapchat related.
On Wednesday, the official Twitter handle of AIB had tweeted a meme about Prime Minister Narendra Modi using the Snapchat dog filter, which was later removed. The seemingly harmless post invited a lot of backlash from Twitterati. One user, Reetesh Maheshwari, tweeted at Mumbai Police, reporting the incident as an “obnoxious” prank pulled at PM Modi which must follow legal proceedings.
The Narendra Modi meme faced heavy condemnation across Twitter where people referred to the comedy group as “sick” and having a “cheap mindset”. One user tweeted, “Just imagine Sir what he would be doing to his mom & sisters at home,if this is his level of perversion.” What perversion? It’s not as though using a Snapchat filter of a dog is derogatory in any manner.
Some others claimed that it was AIB’s desperate attempt to become more popular by riding on the back of a controversy.
But, then again, Tanmay Bhat should have taken into account the fact that humour has no place in this country. Anyway, the meme was taken down later, which, in itself shows that AIB doesn’t stand by it anymore but, a troll must troll.
After the meme was brought to the notice of Mumbai Police, Tanmay took to Twitter to vent his frustration, over the lack of rational reasoning, in a series of tweets.
So so frustrated.
— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) July 13, 2017
Congress leaders and BJP trolls both getting mad over a goddamn silly snapchat filter meme smh
— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) July 13, 2017
Have some fucking shame. I get BJP trolls, they’ve got no better work. You guys are a part of the party.
— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) July 13, 2017
You actually hold some responsibility. Waking up in the morning and trying to shame some comedians for deleting a meme. Ispe utar gaye ho.
— Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) July 13, 2017
UPDATE: As per NDTV, a complaint has been registered at the Mumbai Police Cyber Cell against Tanmay Bhat as the controversy continued to rise. Mumbai Police and Tanmay have yet to confirm whether or not the reports of an FIR are true.
After the controversy broke, while many blasted the comedian, several others backed Tanmay, upholding a citizen’s freedom of speech:
Think people may have disagreements with @AllIndiaBakchod, @thetanmay but they deserve all the support as they face this case.
— Ankur Bhardwaj (@Bhayankur) July 14, 2017
. @thetanmay deserves support. Your freedom of speech is inseparable from his right to make jokes. He is willing to be the test case for FoE
— IndiaExplained (@IndiaExplained) July 14, 2017
Sigh! I promise you Modi will not be upset by an internet meme. He's busy. He's Prime minister of India, not president of America.
— Vir Das (@thevirdas) July 14, 2017
(Today's AIB saga TL;DR)
AIB: Ye lo. Joke on Modi.
BJP: WTF! REPORT! PUNISH!
AIB: OK. Taking it down.
Cong: WTF! REPORT! PUNISH!
THE END— Meghnad (@Memeghnad) July 13, 2017
Wow so AIB had to delete a cute joke on Modi. Anybody remembers their podcast when they said, "Kapil Sibal is a chut,piye Rahul ji ka moot"
— Scotchy (@scotchism) July 12, 2017
Woman: A man is masturbating at us in the train.
Police: Haha kahin aur baith jao na.Sir yeh dekhiye meme!
Police: SHINDE GAADI NIKALO pic.twitter.com/f9BeoXbBHB— Anuradha (@anuradha_kush) July 14, 2017
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