A celebrity’s every action or lack thereof (such as not winning the World Cup, or not having starred in a big hit recently) is closely scrutinised, criticised, deliberated and commented upon. All Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma had to do was to go on holiday in the West Indies and for one of them to post one picture on social media for simply everyone to react.
This was the image Virat Kohli posted on Instagram and on Twitter. That is a nice enough picture, but then I looked closely – it has more than four million likes on Instagram, 6k retweets and 152k likes. So the question is – do people really not have a life?
They are young, good looking, talented, in love other and seem deliriously happy with each. It is all very nice and makes people feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
People want to know everything; if not everything, even crumb of information from that glamorous, beautiful, enviable life is welcome.
Some think this is just a celeb being publicity-hungry; a desire to remain in the spotlight and in the public mind-space.
Rather than a desire for publicity, it is more likely that the avid interest that people have in celebs and their lives is what prompts posts like this.
There is also a sense of resentment among some --- as though the wealth, fame and glamorous lifestyle that celebs enjoy are somehow undeserved.
If you don’t like the person/their posts, ignore it. But there are those who will neither ignore the post nor be nice…a big reason why the internet can be such a hostile space I suppose.
This commentator was reminded of Vikram-Betal.
The official handle of Filmfare magazine tweeted this. Not sure whether they were trolling Kohli or whether they were trolling every social media user out there who seems unable to go on holiday without inundating the net with flattering photos.
This humourist shared this idea – going by the couple’s joint endorsements for the wedding-wear brand.
This one references our Finance Minister recently blaming the auto sector slowdown on millennials preferring cabs to buying vehicles and shelling out EMIs.
This commentator seems to have a rather jaundiced view of marriage; or at least a woman's life in her marital home. They feel that the romance and euphoria of the honeymoon tends to receive a rude reality check when a couple settles down to their humdrum life together. If this happens to Virat Kohli and Anushka as well, I think there will be a lot of people who will feel a significant amount of schadenfreude, if the tweets above are any indication.
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