Have you ever wondered
the funny little things, the one-liners, and the sarcastic pictures flowing
through your Facebook pages, Twitter handles, WhatsApp groups, Instagram and
other modes of social media that you may use? What do they do in the social
space? What do they convey and communicate and why is it that they may appear
offensive but still manages to make one laugh?
There are various
complicated answers to these questions and it is fascinating to see these
things swimming across are social spaces but who is doing this and why? Who is
making jokes out of serious matters- matters as crucial as politics and caste
and religion? We do not know- all we do is to share and smile and laugh. But
these trolls do serious things- they occupy the mind space as long as the can
for they are not some plain boring stuff. They contain humor and sarcasm and
transfers offensive statements as jokes. They may be authentic or not but no one
cares to do a validity check on them for they are jokes meant to be shared and
laughed at.
These are unstable
symbols and signs which may be counter effective at times- for if Modi was in
2014 a character in most of the jokes BJP still manages to take over 325 seats
in UP this time. So what these trolls manages to do is to occupy a presence, a
status of being known and popular for there is a Hindi saying “बदनाम
होंगे
तो
क्या
नाम
न
होगा?”
and this is exactly what the purpose of these trolls are. They clutter in the
mind of the people and hold an important recall value which we know has bear
such fruitful results this time.
For there is no
particular answer to these questions things still remains unclear and ambiguous
but all we can do is to wonder that what will the trolls and jokes about Yogi
do in 2019 and 2022 and the years after?
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