One of Bollywood’s newest stars, Ananya Panday is quite active on social media platforms, especially on Twitter. There, she has launched a campaign called So+ (so positive) which aims to combat social media bullying with positive thoughts.
However, her efforts have not yielded the required results so far. In fact, she herself fell prey to merciless trolling after leaving a spelling mistake in a Twitter post.
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Anaya Panday’s Harmless Mistake
On Wednesday, when most of the Twitterati was absorbed in watching the India vs. New Zealand semifinal, Ananya posted a picture posing with her best friends Suhana Khan and Shanaya Kapoor.
She made one minor mistake, and the internet pounced on it.
This is the deleted Tweet from student of the year.😁😁😁
Tweet of the year. pic.twitter.com/BPlsXNw2JG
— ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ 🌼 (@Tejaswi_Kannada) July 10, 2019
She had to correct her tweet, but by then it was probably too late.
Charlie’s Angels 🖤 #FamilyPortrait
📸 @iamsrk pic.twitter.com/dNkZ3I3PHC— Ananya Panday (@ananyapandayy) July 10, 2019
In the caption, she mistakenly wrote ‘Charlie’s Angles’ instead of ‘Charlie’s Angels.’
Upon realizing the mistake, she changed it with the correct spelling, but it proved to be too late – the train had already left the station.
Trolls certainly had a field day over it.
Reactions
The ‘Student of the Year 2’ star was trolled for being the ‘student of the year.’
This is the deleted Tweet from student of the year.😁😁😁
Tweet of the year. pic.twitter.com/BPlsXNw2JG
— ತೇಜಸ್ವಿ 🌼 (@Tejaswi_Kannada) July 10, 2019
A troll went too far to call her a graduate from ‘NEPOTISM SCHOOL for one little gaffe.
intelligent #AnanyaPanday 😂😂😂 while everyone is busy with the match she silently retweeted it😝 literally it took 3 freaking hours to realise her mistake.🤦🤦🤦 that's how it'll be when u r a NEPOTISM SCHOOL graduate😉#INDvNZ #CWCUP2019 #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/ft20p80yPg
— K (@tweetsbyhk) July 10, 2019
Others just used emojis to make their point:
@ananyapandayy WHY DID YOU DELETE THE PREVIOUS TWEET???
WHAT WAS IT???… 🤔 pic.twitter.com/heEzzUHB1y— Marina Okuneva (@MarinaOkuneva1) July 10, 2019
https://twitter.com/merajtweets/status/1148955094441795586
To be honest, this is something that can happen to any of us. The sooner trolls realize this, the better.
Ananya Speaks About Her Initiative
Earlier in an interview with a local newspaper, Ananya had spoken about her So+ initiative. She said that her idea is to build a community which discourages social media bullying.
“I will post details about bullying and information about what people can do to report bullying. We would lobby for social media empathy and constructive criticism with this initiative. For example, how they can report and block bullies on social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram.”
Ananya Panday added that she will also create a direct line so that people could also share their problems with her time to time.
