Tag: social media

  • You can now buy viral Chand Nawab video meme

    The video that went viral in 2008 featuring a local reporter, Chand Nawab has been put up for auction as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), on a website named Foundation.

    The reserve price for the video on the website is $64,756.60 (around Rs10,787,763.14).

    “I’m Chand Nawab, a journalist and reporter by profession. In 2008, a video of me surfaced on YouTube in which I fumbled while reporting Eid Festival frenzy at a Railway station. While reporting, I was contently interrupted by people, my fumbling and constant irritation made this video viral getting millions of views on YouTube and Facebook,” wrote Nawab while explaining what the video meme was about.

    “My popularity again surged in 2016 when my viral video inspired Indian film maker Kabir Khan to create Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s character in his 2015 blockbuster Bajrangi Bhaijaan,” he added.

    Read more- Viral Pakistani meme makes it to Hong Kong museum

    Earlier this month, the ‘Friendship ended with Mudasir’ meme, which went viral in 2015, was auctioned off as a Non-Fungible Token for $51,530 (roughly Rs8,491,427.73). The sale was concluded on the online platform Foundation, which facilitates live auctions for NFTs.

  • VIDEO: Maulana Tariq Jameel meets his lookalike

    Religious scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel met his doppelgänger and the resemblance between the two is uncanny.

    A video of Maulana Tariq Jameel is doing the rounds on social media, which shows MTJ standing in front of his lookalike.

    A few other people can also be seen standing around MTJ and his lookalike in the video.

  • Video of rare pink dolphin goes viral

    Video of rare pink dolphin goes viral

    A video of a Pink dolphin is doing the rounds on social media.

    A Twitter user shared a video that shows a rare pink dolphin swimming across the ocean.

    https://twitter.com/solocuriosos_/status/1427737140520235008?s=20

    According to the website of National Geographic channel, these pink dolphins are found in the Amazon River of South America.

    The website states that it is due to the albinism that occurs when cells that normally make the pigment melanin, responsible for skin, hair, and eye colour, fail to produce it at normal levels, or at all.

    This is usually because of a mutation in one of several genes.

  • Govt seeking new powers to control media by setting up PMDA: Human Rights Watch

    Govt seeking new powers to control media by setting up PMDA: Human Rights Watch

    As part of its crackdown on freedom of expression, the government is seeking broad new powers in the garb of the proposed Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA), says Human Rights Watch (HRW).

    “The government claims an ordinance setting up the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) would replace the ‘fractured’ regulatory environment and fragmented media regulations currently in place. The proposed PMDA would bring all media in Pakistan – print, television, radio, films, and digital media – under one regulator,” HRW said in its statement.

    The PMDA law would grant new unchecked powers to the government-controlled regulator by setting up special “media tribunals” that will have the power to impose steep fines for media organisations and journalists who violate its code of conduct or publish content it deems to be “fake news”.

    The proposed law would also increase government control by allowing government officials to be appointed to key positions.

    With journalists under relentless attack for doing their jobs, the Pakistan government needs to stop trying to control reporters and instead start protecting media freedom, added HRW.

    Earlier this month, the representatives of media organisations rejected the proposed PMDA and termed the concept as an unconstitutional and draconian law against freedom of press and expression and a step toward imposing state control to regulate all segments of media under over-centralised body.

    The major stakeholders believe that the proposed PMDA is an attempt to tighten the government’s control over the media from one platform and ignores the fact that print, electronic and social media are separate entities, each with their own defined features.

  • #NotAllMen trends after 400 men publicly assault a woman

    Hashtag ‘Not All men’ is trending on Twitter, a day after FIR was filed against 400 men for assaulting a woman at Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore. The hashtag has at least 5,300 tweets, till the time of filling the story. This was the second top trend on Pakistani Twitter after the hashtag #lahoreincident.

    People are calling out those who are using the hashtag #NotAllMen:

    https://twitter.com/iamtbkhayat/status/1427720052187488257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1427720052187488257%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthecurrent.pk%2F%3Fp%3D124957

    People are showing their outrage on social media after a video went viral that shows a woman being sexually assaulted by a large group of men at Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore on 14 August, Pakistan’s independence day. The incident has been confirmed after a First Information Report (FIR) was registered.

    Politicians including Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and Shehbaz Sharif have condemned the incident.

  • Two men arrested for pretending to be women

    Cyber Crime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has detained two men in Lahore — one of them a foreign national — on charges of looting people while posing as women on Facebook, Samaa has reported.

    The Cyber Crime Wing has arrested one foreigner and one local man named Darlington and Asif Ali, respectively.

    FIA Additional Director Shahid Hussain said that during the investigation, the suspects said that they duped people by uploading pictures of beautiful girls. They chatted with different men and then looted them by asking them for dollars.

    As per the FIA, “They force youngsters and women to send them inappropriate pictures and then blackmail them.”

    Earlier, FIA booked model Ifrah Khan on charges of blackmailing a businessman and demanding extortion of millions from him.

  • Citizens call Adiala jail to stop preferential treatment for Zahir Jaffer

    People on social media are demanding Adiala jail authorities to stop giving preferential treatment to Zahir Jaffer, the key accused in Noor Mukadam’s murder case. The Instagram account named “Justice or Noor” requested citizens, to call Adiala Jail authorities and request them to not give special treatment to Zahir.

    The post also mentioned the contact number to register the complaint: “0515133115”.

    Actor and Digital creator Shahanajan also took to her Instagram account to request citizens to register the complaint.

    Zahir Jaffer, was taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad on Wednesday afternoon with a headache, according to doctors at the hospital. People on social media are demanding the end of special treatment towards the alleged murderer.

  • Viral meme ‘Friendship ended with Mudasir’ sold for $51,000

    The ‘Friendship ended with Mudasir’ meme, which went viral in 2015, has now been auctioned off as a Non-Fungible Token for $51,530 (roughly Rs8,491,427.73). The sale was concluded on the online platform Foundation, which facilitates live auctions for non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

    It was bought by Andrew King, co-founder of Mechanism Capital, BBC has reported. Asif, while speaking to BBC, said that the sale was ‘unexpected’ for him.

    In 2015, a Gujranwala-based man named Asif Raza Rana created a manipulated artwork that became the Pakistani friendship breakup meme. Rana had broken up with Mudasir Ismail Ahmad. He also revealed that he had met a new closest friend in Salman Ahmad Naqash. The meme was widely shared by social media users.

  • Viral Pakistani meme makes it to Hong Kong museum

    The disappointed Pakistani cricket fan Sarim Akhtar, who got famous after a video clip of him went viral in 2019, has been featured in Hong Kong’s Museum of Memes.

    His ‘disappointed face’ after Asif Ali dropped David Warner’s catch in Pakistan vs Australia became a meme, and it was widely shared by social media users.

    Sarim took to Twitter to share the video clip of a video featuring him in the museum. He tweeted, “My sister found the video of the Hongkong K11 Museum of Memes on YouTube.”

    https://twitter.com/msarimakhtar/status/1421599534258565120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1421599534258565120%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo.tv%2Flatest%2F362910-disappointed-fan-sarim-akhtar-featured-in-hong-kongs-meme-museum

    The meme museum consists of seven themed zones, each showcasing famed memes from different periods in various forms such as imagery, 3D figures and even scent, allowing visitors to review some of the most humorous memes.

    Moreover, the famous Pakistani meme that went viral in 2015 “friendship ended with” has been put online for auction by a Lahore and London-based startup, Alter, as an NFT artwork.