Met Gala and memes: How Priyanka Chopra’s 2019 gown triggered a meme fest and made Bengal’s TMC govt very offended

Priyanka Chopra Jonas and her husband Nick Jonas had been reportedly absent on the 2021 Met Gala occasion held final evening. But the reminiscences of Priyanka Chopra’s 2019 Met Gala gown nonetheless exist in numerous memes. The gown had weird feather detailing together with an equally weird curly hairdo topped with a silver-straw crown and loud make-up full with a bindi.
It was described by social media customers with phrases equivalent to ‘witch dress’, ‘birds nest’ and many others. The Met Gala 2019 gown worn by Priyanka Chopra had ended up triggering a meme uproar in India.
Not shut sufficient! pic.twitter.com/3u1yGeiHhk— S🧐! (@VidurSpeaks) May 7, 2019
Pic1 – my hair when native practice mein seat mil jaayePic2 – my hair when native practice ke gate pe latak kar jaana pade #MetGala pic.twitter.com/U0Z5a23T56— Arjun… (@iamZoomie) May 7, 2019
Dress causes meme-fest, makes TMC offended
As weird because the gown was, issues received much more weird when a innocent meme over that gown shared by a Kolkata lady made some politicians very upset. As memes had been flowing everywhere in the web, Kolkata’s Priyanka Sharma, a BJP Yuva Morcha member, had shared a meme that had Mamata Banerjee’s face instead of Priyanka Chopra.
Pic 1: This innocent caricature of a scene from Ray’s Sonar Kella received Mamata’s goat. Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra, 52, and his 72-year-old neighbour had been arrested.Pic 2: For this MetGala meme, BJP youth employee Priyanka Sharma is arrested.Mamata Banerjee isn’t fascist, Modi is. pic.twitter.com/HehtsDRDP2— Abhijit Majumder (@abhijitmajumder) May 11, 2019
BJYM member was jailed for Mamata meme
The West Bengal Chief Minister expressed her intolerance and disapproval for memes and jokes when amidst all of the reactions over Priyanka Chopra’s Met Gala gown and memes, BJP youth activist Priyanka Sharma ended up getting arrested and jailed for her Met Gala themed Mamata Banerjee meme on social media.
The criticism was filed by TMC chief Vibhas Hazra towards the BJYM convenor Priyanka Sharma for allegedly posting a morphed image of Mamata Banerjee in Howrah. The meme that landed Priyanka Sharma in jail had superimposed Mamata’s face on Priyanka Chopra’s physique. She was arrested on May 10 and produced in Howrah Court.
The copy of the criticism learn that the act “broke the community guidelines” and it was being considered as a difficulty of “violence”. “She not just tries to insult our Hon’ble Chief Minister, but she trying to insult the culture of our Bengal by her post on Facebook and which is Cyber Crime”, learn the criticism.
The youth activist Sharma was booked underneath Section 500 of the IPC (defamation), and Sections 66A (offensive messages) and the non-bailable 67A (punishment for publishing or transmitting of fabric containing sexually specific act, and many others., in digital type) of the Information Technology Act.
Sharma’s arrest was extensively criticised. Though the Leftists and so-called ‘liberals’ saved mum as a result of for them, human rights violations don’t matter until they can be utilized towards the BJP, social media customers and BJP leaders referred to as out the arbitrary arrest by the Bengal state authorities.
The reign of terror of @MamataOfficial would embarrass even worst tyrants of world!To lend ethical assist, I met Smt Rajkumari Sharma, mom of @BJP4Bengal employee Ms Priyanka Sharma, arrested for making a meme on Mamata Didi. We’re searching for judicial intervention for her launch. pic.twitter.com/JPdibgRrcD— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 12, 2019
Thousands of social media customers ran the hashtag #iSupportPriyankaSharma and adjusted their DP to the identical meme of Mamata Banerjee, difficult the WB authorities to arrest them too.
On May 14, 2019, the Supreme Court ordered the West Bengal authorities to launch Sharma instantly. However, going towards the SC order, the Bengal authorities delayed Sharma’s launch and he or she was reportedly made to signal an apology letter. Speaking to the media, Sharma had acknowledged that she didn’t do something flawed due to this fact she wouldn’t apologise.
According to the TMC leaders, sharing memes with the CM’s photoshopped image was a grave crime and disrespect to the Chief Minister of the state. Apparently, that is additionally not the primary occasion when the TMC chief had tried suppressing critics. Earlier, Tina Biswas, an writer of a novel important of WB CM Mamata Banerjee had alleged harassment throughout her guide launch at Kolkata.
The Met Gala or the Costume Institute Gala is the annual fundraising gala thrown for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York and marks the opening of the Costume Institute’s annual trend exhibit. This 12 months’s Met gala 2021 theme was ‘American Independence’. The weird outfits are once more turning into meme materials everywhere in the world.