BBC News, Mumbai
“Dirty.” “The washed mind.” “Distant.”
These were the words that the Indian Supreme Court was used on Tuesday, while temporary arrest protection was approved by the popular YouTuber, which has been in the eye of Storm in the country in the last week.
Futrore started after Ranveer Allahbadia, whose YouTube Channel Beerbiceps has eight million followers, asked the competitor the question: “Would you rather watch your parents every day sex for the rest of your life or have joined him once and stopped forever?”
Comments, exposed to the show, India received a latent on February 9th, caused mass anger, police cases, and even death threats. YouTube quickly removed the episode, but that did not stop the tide of anger directed at Allahbadi and the show.
In fact, the amount of attention that the incident has attracted unclear: she made national titles, covered on TV Primetime, and some of the most prominent Indian news even launched live pages.
It is not surprising given the status of a star of Allahbady. He interviewed the Federal Ministers, the top Bollywood celebrities, cries and Hollywood actors. Last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed him a trophy of “national creatives”.
Ever since the controversy broke out, Allahbadia and the creator of the show, Samay Rain, apologized for commenting and Raina removed all the previous episodes of the show. The Supreme Court forbade Allah Badia in his recent order to publish content on social media.
But the incident still brings news,
“He feels like the state is trying to make an example from Allahbady,” says Apar Gupta, founder of the Internet Foundation for freedom. The Sake Gokhale, the opposition MP, also condemned the target of Allahbady and the show.
“Crass content can be criticized if offended. However, you cannot persecute the state and lock people for the insult of your” moral feelings “,” wrote In the post on X.
Popular comedian Vir Das also dealt with controversy and criticized news for their one -dimensional coverage of the incident and to disparage all digital content.
Allahbadi’s remarks and a subsequent return launched discussions about free speech and Indian Law on Observation; He also caused conversations about the thirst for viral content and the consequences that manufacturers face when their content exceeds the lines supported by the people who look at it.
Rain’s show, which made his debut in June, was popular from the beginning, and each episode on YouTube has watched tens of millions of times. And that did not move away from the controversy of the launch.
The show platform some bizarre performances, and judges and competitors were seen creating Crass and rough comments more than several times. Critics They accused the show From the outbreak of the misogynistic views and for guests of shame of the body.
Popular fashion influence Once he came out of the show After a male competitor compared her with a former adult actress, while another asked her about her “body number” (slang expression for the number of sexual partners the person had).
But it seems that it was the attraction of the show.
The fans of the show welcomed him for the dedication of “raw talent and non -filtered jokes”. Some said they liked baking – a form of a comedy insult – which was popular in the show.
Experts have underlined howSince exploding the landscape of fun, digital content creators often feel forced to push the envelope – even if it means resorting to risk and casual – just to get a view and virality.
It is safe to say that the show has pushed the envelope and buttons of many. But then she returned.
“Many comedies, especially a particular male species, is cruel and hits people. It has violently insidious. So if you contribute to that culture, it is not a shock if it comes back to bites you one day,”
He adds that a successful comedy requires a fine adjusted awareness of the audience for which it is performed and which boundaries can be pushed.
Interestingly, the issue of Allahbadija, which caused Furor, was almost identical to the question of the host of the Australian comic show called OG or drink OG Crew. Although the question did not cause anger in Australia, there is in India.
“The Internet has allowed the content to reach the spaces and people to which it has not been organically playing. The immensely appropriation of content can have unexpected consequences,” she says.
But she also says that there is a need to protect the question of the question of morality.
“When such controversy disits, there is always a risk of morality of weapons to punish people who have gone against what society has accepted,” she says, adding that morality has increasingly translated into the legal framework of the country, which can have a divisive effect.
Some critics also accused the authorities of using controversy as a smoke screen to draw attention from other burning problems – such as unemployment and pollution. Some fear that the federal government will use it as a reason to justify further regulation of content creation.
After controversy, a report NDTV News Channel stated that a parliamentary panel is considering passing the law over digital content. Supreme Court has requested more regulations around online content.
Mr. Gupta says that the state already has a “huge amount of power” to prosecute people accused of flotting different laws on data and content, and that, although the state executes its powers without restraint, the creators of content do not have as many legal protective measures to protect them.
“Instead of firmer laws, we need more reforms; existing legal standards must be more tolerant of free expression,” he says.
“Other systems, such as education and digital learning, should be strengthened so that young people know that they get their education from the classroom and turn to the Internet just for fun.”
