Published 11:58 IST, July 29th 2019

Ravichandran Ashwin irked over fake 'RIP Vijay' trend amid asteroids, irregular weather & criminal cases

Amid serious issues such as monsoon rains flooding various parts of the country and controversial cases taking mysterious turns, an irrelevant and a rather childish topic trended on Twitter, fueled by the fans of a rival actor from the Kollywood industry. 'RIP actor Vijay' trended on Twitter, leaving many confused and irked as they failed to understand how it received so much of attention despite other concerns looming around. 

Reported by: Koushik Narayanan
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Amid serious issues such as monsoon rains flooding various parts of country and controversial cases taking mysterious turns, an irrelevant and untrue topic trended on Twitter, allegedly fueled by fans of a rival actor from Kollywood industry. 'RIP actor Vijay' trended on Twitter, leaving many confused and irked as y failed to understand how it received so much of attention despite or concerns looming around and despite it clearly being false. 

Ravichandran Ashwin irked 

Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was visibly irked with this trend, as he took to Twitter to point out that re were many or important issues that were neglected en route to making 'RIP actor Vijay' trend on social media. former Chennai Super Kings player said that issues such as an asteroid narrowly missing hitting earth, irregular monsoons, droughts, and criminal cases were overlooked by younger generation to trend something that was rar very irrelevant and insensitive. 

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He furr said that it was time to cut fuel to fire, indicating that focus should be more on important issues rar than such childish trends.

What is 'RIP actor Vijay'?

rivalry between fans of Kollywood actors Vijay and Ajith Kumar is kwn to be very volatile, with both sides kwn for displaying 'strength' of fans on social media. re have been various instances of such trends previously, where one actor is trolled by fans of or. However, this trend left many surprised as to how topic trended just because of youngsters tweeting about it without considering or important issues in country. A shocking number of 56.2 thousand tweets were put out on RIP actor Vijay trend, leaving it to trend on second spot on Twitter. 

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