Being a celebrity these days is not easy, big thanks to how brutal social media can be about your tiniest of mistakes. And considering social media is made up majorly of your fans, you’ve got to make sure you don’t rub them off the wrong way with your antics. Something Tamil actor Sivakumar learnt the hard way.
Sivakumar was recently in Madurai, attending the inauguration of a private fertility clinic, when a fan tried to take a selfie with him. In a shocking turn of events, the actor smacked the phone right out of the fan’s hand!
Dont take this in a lighter note.
What Actor #Sivakumar did was absolutely Nasty 😈. Disgusting to his position. So its clear he ready to give advice to students but he's not following it.
Smart Phone cost may be inside 10k or above 10k.@Suriya_offl@Karthi_Offl kindly pay back pic.twitter.com/tAZZf903mN— Dubukku_Shankar (@rahul_37373) October 29, 2018
The video clip of the incident went quite viral on the Internet. And it’s safe to say, people were quite furious and some even sought an apology.
Amidst outrage over such insensitive behaviour with a fan, Sivakumar did end up apologising.
Actor #Sivakumar on the selfie controversy pic.twitter.com/0Y2bIKZXFx
— Rajasekar (@sekartweets) October 29, 2018
However, Twitter being Twitter, it decided to take the meme fodder that came its way and turn it into a hilarious goldmine of laughs!
Aadat se majboor!
The smackdown was predictably compared to a volleyball move!
https://twitter.com/Natraya_prabhu/status/1056843119142961157
Clearly, Sivakumar is going to be haunted by ghosts of phones tonight!
#Sivakumar tonight… pic.twitter.com/ImHzAGqks4
— Suresh Kalaimani💫 (@KalaimaniSuresh) October 29, 2018
This can only happen in movies down south!
What actor Sivakumar did was completely unacceptable but the memes on internet on the same is extremely funnny. This one takes the cake though #Sivakumar #SivakumarShouldApologize pic.twitter.com/HRvcmceP75
— Giri Subramanian (Off Work) (@giri26) October 30, 2018
This selfie attempt might be really painful for Sivakumar to watch, mostly because his hand can’t reach the phone to smack it down!
https://twitter.com/Sandharpavathi/status/1056896477270667264
A lot of the memes were inspired from Akshay Kumar’s character in the Rajnikanth starrer 2.0!
https://twitter.com/rajesh_Off/status/1056877197875728385
That hand gesture similarity seems to have done the trick!
https://twitter.com/vfxaholic/status/1056957999724617728
So Fast 😂 #Sivakumar's #2Point0 pic.twitter.com/aQvwOhoBG6
— AG (@arunrp555) October 29, 2018
I’m telling you, if Shakespeare were alive in these times, he’d definitely say, “Twitter, thou art a heartless wench!”