On Friday morning, #BoycottMyntra was trending on Twitter with many going after the e-commerce site, accusing it of insulting Lord Krishna by allegedly posting a derogatory picture on its website to promote its products.
And the tweets were plenty, like:
how dare @myntra mocks Hindu Gods & legendary Draupadi for their sale
Like #BoycottSnapdeal ..time to #BoycottMyntra pic.twitter.com/7r6dFnLzyg— Hunting_Hunters (@eparitosh) August 26, 2016
#BoycottMyntraHappily deleted #Myntra app today…U don’t own my religion.Hindus too have sentiments.y dont U use prophet cartoon??
— GmantriJI (@GmantriJI) August 26, 2016
So here’s how @myntra mocks our Gods and molestation of a woman for their online promotions! #BoycottMyntra pic.twitter.com/qHQ8LbA7gI
— TheFrustratedIndian (@FrustIndian) August 26, 2016
This is not the right way to promote your products.Bad taste #BoycottMyntra pic.twitter.com/Uo8SJ6ZAOF
— Jolly LLB2 on Feb 10 (@Jai_Andhra) August 26, 2016
Myntra finally responded on Twitter to say that it wasn’t even the culprit behind the picture:
We did not create this artwork nor do we endorse this. https://t.co/EWyWUEsky5
— Myntra (@myntra) August 26, 2016
Viral content website ScrollDroll owned up to the act, apologised for it and even gave Myntra a clean chit:
This poster was created by us in Feb. We removed it immediately as we never intended to hurt sentiments (1/2) https://t.co/2mYwpaWZhg
— ScrollDroll (@ScrollDroll) August 25, 2016
We take up the responsibility of this artwork. Myntra is nowhere associated with it directly or indirectly. (2/2) https://t.co/2mYwpaWZhg
— ScrollDroll (@ScrollDroll) August 25, 2016
We apologize and deeply regret if any of our artwork has hurt the sentiments of anyone.
— ScrollDroll (@ScrollDroll) August 25, 2016
But some continued to blame Myntra accusing it of spreading blasphemy
Need sincere apology since this product was being sold on ur website n there4 u r equally responsible#BoycottMyntra https://t.co/TaOaTDzQUH
— Raushan Raj (@AskRaushan) August 26, 2016
And then there were some who changed their target
Ppl using #BoycottMyntra wait for a while and see who is real culprit. Action should be taken against @ScrollDroll pic.twitter.com/UPYMBlEJNB
— नंदिता ठाकुर (@nanditathhakur) August 26, 2016