There are some people in the world that are famous without being in the least popular. Kamaal R Khan is one such. He has 5 million+ followers on Twitter, but one would be hard pressed to say exactly what the man is famous for, or indeed to hear anything positive about him. Yesterday, #WigUtaarKRK was trending and so was #RohitSumitSamosaSellers – these hashtags were intriguing enough to want to find out more.
KRK is known for his abrasive, abusive, combative style. He targets high profile celebs to amuse some and to enrage others. He deliberately denigrates some celebs, mostly to get a reaction. He said this about the mighty Cheeranjivi’s movie and also rubbished positive reviews of War.
With nearly 75k followers, Sumit Kadel (film trade analyst, reviewer, influencer according to his twitter bio) wields some Twitter-might. He called for the tweeple to trend #WigUtaarKRK.
Rohit Jaiswal is another blue tick Twitter user with about 31.8K followers. He offered to pay for KRS’s treatment. It would appear that Jaiswal has some filmi ambitions himself if this video is anything to go by.
Since KRK was being asked to remove his wig, he decided to trend a hashtag of his own.
Apparently there is a Team KRK who busies itself doing his bidding; the man has ‘fans’ --- who knew!
It quickly got personal and quite ugly; each side trading allegations of underhand behaviour and/or other insults.
Soon people had taken sides and had arrayed themselves as for and against in the Twitter battle that ensued.
So the KRK camp was doing a virtual victory lap because the silly #RohitSumitSamosaSellers hashtag started to trend.
The samosa camp and the wig camp both claimed victory over the other.
KRK doesn’t inspire much affection. This is the general reaction to his antics on Twitter and YouTube.
For some reason, asking someone to remove his wig and alleging that two others are samosa sellers is hilarious. I truly wonder at the IQ of people who not only find all this amusing but expend time and energy on aligning themselves with one or another side in all this.
In the Twitter wars between high-visibility tweeple, the common or garden Twitter user gets a ringside view to the fisticuffs. Basically it is free entertainment. For the blue-tick tweeple, this is free publicity – staying visible and relevant is, after all, the number one aim. So, any Twitter spat like this is basically a win-even-when-I-lose situation for all the blue-ticks involved, wouldn’t you say?
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