What’s Wrong with India Story:Social media platform X is flooded with posts with the keywords ‘What’s wrong with India’. More than three lakh posts have been made so far. The spate of posting on X started on Tuesday evening. After this there was a flood of posts like What’s Wrong With India. After this it became a top trend. Even the government’s citizen engagement portal MyGovIndia participated. But what is it and why is it going viral?
Keyword came into trend due to Dumka incident
Actually, the Spanish tourist is behind this viral trend. On March 1, an incident of gang rape of a Spanish female tourist took place in Dumka, Jharkhand. Whereas her husband was beaten severely by the accused. The incident is under investigation. After the incident, the victim woman released a video message on social media, in which she narrated her ordeal and showed her injuries.
What’s wrong with India. They don’t have a home for 💩 pic.twitter.com/tY4UQZZJih
— Anurag (@Anurag5795) March 12, 2024
Made fun of India by calling it rape capital of the world
After this incident, there was widespread anger on social media. Many social media users highlighted their unpleasant travel experiences in India. However, some accounts took advantage of this opportunity. He tried to tarnish the image of India in front of the world.
Indians decoding “whats wrong with India” trend pic.twitter.com/TOCZl7OEkk
— Moana (@ladynationalist) March 12, 2024
Alleged that such incidents are common in India. Many such posts were made in the last 10 days. In which India was mocked by calling it the rape capital of the world. Not only this, these posts also promoted stereotypes related to public hygiene and culture. Many of these posts were posted with the keywords ‘What’s Wrong with India’.
Shocking😮
What’s Wrong with India & Indians 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/qHYTbtHq8d— Desidudewithsign (@Nikhilsingh21_) March 12, 2024
Is X giving good reach to anti-India content?
Some social media users in India claimed that these posts were getting good reach. He blamed X’s UNO reverse card algorithm for this.
what’s wrong with India?
Look at Power Nation USA 🇺🇸 it’s so safe!— ISHU RAJPUT (@Ishuu_Rajput) March 12, 2024
On Tuesday, many X users in India also shared posts using the keywords ‘Whats Wrong with India’, but with a change in it. Users shared photos and videos of similar incidents in other countries.
Omg!!
What’s wrong with India? pic.twitter.com/HmdxPxxuRw-Nocap. dawg (modi family)🚩🇺🇸🇵🇸🍉🇮🇳 🏳️🌈 (@nocap_dawg) March 11, 2024
The aim of these users was to prove that X’s algorithm was promoting posts that contained the keywords ‘Whats Wrong with India’ and shared anti-India content. Some of these posts were made by people who had less than 300 followers. But his post got more than a lakh impressions. The ratio of comments and likes was also shocking.
What’s wrong with India? pic.twitter.com/uOfvXOcBYH
— MyGovIndia (@mygovindia) March 12, 2024
Indians hijacked keywords
Indian X users shared pictures and videos of people defecating and bathing openly in western countries. In this, government portal MyGovIndia also shared India’s success story. Currently, the keywords ‘Whats Wrong with India’ have been hijacked by Indian users.
