The ‘dirty’ comments of Ranveer Allahbadia arouse a massive row in India

“Dirty.” “Perverted mind”. “Disgusting.”

These were the words that the Supreme Court of India used Tuesday on Tuesday, while granting provisional arrest protection to a popular youtuber that has been in the eye of a storm in the country during the past week.

The rage began after Ranveer Allahbadia, whose YouTube channel Beerbiceps has eight million followers, asked a contestant the question: “Do you prefer to see your parents have sex every day for the rest of your life or join a time and stop him forever? “

The comments, made in the program that India became latent on February 9, caused a massive outrage, police cases and even death threats. YouTube quickly eliminated the episode, but that did not stop the tide of anger to Allahbadia and the program.

In fact, the amount of attention that the incident has received is amazing: it has reached national headlines, it has been covered on stellar television and some of the most prominent news sites in India have even executed live pages.

It is not surprising, taking into account the state of the star of Allahbadia. He has interviewed the federal ministers, the main celebrities of Bollywood, the Cricket players and the Hollywood actors. And last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave him a trophy of “National Creators Awards”.

Since the controversy, Allahbadia and the creator of the program broke out, Samay Raina, have apologized for the comments and Raina has eliminated all the previous episodes of the program. The Supreme Court in its recent order prohibited Allahbadia from publishing content on social networks.

But the incident continues to make news,

“It seems that the State is trying to make an example of Allahbadia,” says APA Gupta, founder of the Internet Freedom Foundation. Saket Gokhale, an opposition legislator, also condemned the orientation of Allahbadia and the show.

“The rude content can be criticized if it offends you. wrote In an X publication.

The popular comedian vir also intervened in the controversy and criticized news channels for its one -dimensional coverage of the incident and to have a derogatory vision of all digital content.

The comments of Allahbadia and the subsequent reaction have triggered debates about freedom of expression and the laws of obscenity of India; It has also caused conversations around the thirst for viral content and the consequences facing its creators when its content crosses the lines confirmed by the same people who see it.

Raina’s program, which debuted in June, has been popular from the beginning, and each episode was seen tens of millions on YouTube. And he has not avoided the onset controversies either.

The program has platform some strange actions and judges and contestants have been seen making rude and raw comments more than several times. Critics They have accused the show of throwing misogynistic views and for guests that embarrass the body.

An influential fashion popular Once I left the show After a male contestant compared her to a former adult film actress, while another asked about her “bodies count” (an argot term for the number of sexual partners a person has had).

But that seems to have been the attractiveness of the program too.

Program fans have acclaimed him for defending “raw talent and unilveoted jokes.” Some have said that they liked roasts, a form of insult comedy, which was popular in the program.

Experts have stressed howWith the explosive entertainment panorama, the creators of digital content often feel obliged to push the envelope, even if that means resorting to risky and lascives, only to obtain points of view and virality.

It is safe to say that the program pressed the envelope and the buttons of many. But then, he was failed.

“A lot of comedy, especially of certain types, is cruel and hits people. It has a violent underground current. Therefore, if you contribute to that culture, it is not a shock if you bite you again one day.” The Paromita Vohra filmmaker says.

He adds that successful comedy requires an adjusted awareness of the audience for which it is being held and what limits can push.

Interestingly, Allahbadia’s question, which caused the fury, was almost identical to the question asked by the host of an Australian comedy program called OG Crew’s Truth or Drink. While the question did not cause outrage in Australia, it has it in India.

“Internet has made it possible for the content to reach the spaces and people with whom I was not playing organically. The appropriation of content without thinking can have unexpected consequences,” she says.

But it also says that it is necessary to protect against such problems a matter of morality.

“When such controversies break out, there is always the risk that morality becomes armed to punish people who have gone against what society accepts what it accepts,” he says and adds that morality is getting hitting more and more Within the country’s legal framework, which can have a divisive effect.

Some critics have also accused the authorities of using controversy as a smoke screen to divert attention from other pressing problems, such as unemployment and pollution. Some fear that the federal government will use it as a reason to justify a greater regulation of content creation.

After the controversy, a report By NDTV News Channel declared that a parliamentary panel was considering making laws on more strict digital content. The Supreme Court too has pressed for more Regulations on online content.

Gupta says that the State already has a “tremendous amount of power” to prosecute people accused of breaching various data and content laws and that, although the State exercises their powers without restriction, the creators of content do not have so many legal safeguards To protect them.

“Instead of stricter laws, we need more reform; existing legal standards must be more tolerant of free expression,” he says.

“Other systems, such as education and digital learning, must be strengthened so that young people know how to obtain their classroom education and resort to the Internet only for entertainment.”