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
Myntra finally responded on Twitter to say that it wasn’t even the culprit behind the picture:
Viral content website ScrollDroll owned up to the act, apologised for it and even gave Myntra a clean chit:
But some continued to blame Myntra accusing it of spreading blasphemy
And then there were some who changed their target