India is one of the biggest social media consuming countries in the world and the degree of narrative building that can happen here is beyond doubt.
To put that into perspective, we have the case of a cockroach oriented party or narrative that’s creating a social media storm.
Going into the story, the chief justice of India commented that a section of the unemployed youth in the country are like cockroaches who are working against the nation’s interests.
As a trigger reaction to this, a person launched a new social media page in the name of cockroach Janatha party on Instagram. In a matter of few days, this party is generated humongous traction on social media.
Currently, this Cockroach party has 5.6 million followers on Instagram as of the moment we are typing this. This number is going consistently on hourly basis and there could be a pretty significant turnout soon.
For those wondering, the official BJP handle has around 8.7 million followers on Instagram, and it should be a matter of few days before the cockroach party breaks this tally.
The fact that a satiric party that was launched as a social media critique against the statement of the chief justice is in a position to beat the BJP in terms of follower count in just a few days after its launch is a story in itself.
