Social media trends can create buzz around anyone. Although, these trends can be negative or positive but surely once people get on tweeting about a particular trend, it works like a snowballing effect. People keep in getting engaged.
Indian users on Twitter attributed someone else's tweets to the Spiderman actor Tom Holland and #boycottspiderman started to trend on the micro-blogging site. It happened due to identical names of historian and the spiderman actor.
Boycotts have a history on Twitter. Every twitter hashtag has its counter hashtag. After #BoycottMirzapur and #BoycottKapilSharmaShow, the culture of boycotting people, movies, organizations and even shows has gotten momentum on Twitter.
Tom Holland tweeted about the renaming of Motera Stadium after Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. Historian and author Holland tweeted, "I'm a huge admirer of the modesty Modi showed in naming the world's largest cricket stadium after himself." As per reports, the Sardar Patel Stadium (Gujarat) was popularly known as Motera Stadium. It has recently been renamed as Narendra Modi Stadium. It is touted as the largest stadium in the world.
I’m a huge admirer of the modesty Modi showed in naming the world’s largest cricket stadium after himself.
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) February 24, 2021
After historian Holland tweeted about the stadium, users on Twitter started to trend #BoycottSpiderman. Many people including actor and comedian Vir Das was amused to see this trend.
Das tweeted, "Wait...Spiderman is from JNU?"
Wait...Spiderman is from JNU? https://t.co/iw0cnSxaMo
— Vir Das (@thevirdas) February 24, 2021
After the author came to know about this tweet, he tweeted and apologized to Spiderman actor, "My apologies to @SpiderManMovie. I should have remembered that with great power comes great responsibility." He added, "Just for the record, & to save Marvel's profits in India, I freely acknowledge that Narendra Modi is a man of immense humility, and that his naming the world's largest cricket stadium after himself is in no way quite hilariously immodest."
My apologies to @SpiderManMovie. I should have remembered that with great power comes great responsibility.
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) February 25, 2021