Patna Junction Pornography Incident

Overview

Patna Junction Pornography Incident refers to discussions and memes about an incident at the railway station in Patna in Bihar, India. For approximately three minutes on March 20th, 2023, pornographic footage was displayed on the screens at the platforms in Patna Junction. Memes about the incident began to spread soon after footage of the event was shared on Twitter.

Background

At approximately 9:30 AM on Sunday, March 19th, 2023, railway commuters reported seeing pornography playing on the screens at the railway station in the city of Patna in Bihar, India. Instagram^[1] page @theTatva reported on the incident on March 20th, gathering over 150,000 likes on a carousel post about the incident (seen below).

Various Twitter accounts posted videos of the incident on March 20th as well.^[2][3]

Online Reactions

On March 20th, 2023, various internet users began commenting on the incident. Many users made jokes about wanting to go to Patna railway station or made jokes about Patna railway station giving competition to popular pornographic websites. On March 20th, Twitter^[4] user @byomkesbakshy posted a meme about the event, where a female Doge asks, "Why are you so romantic today?" to which her husband replies, "No reason, just left the railway station and thought of you." The post gathered over 1,000 likes in four hours (seen below, left). Also on March 20th, Twitter^[5] user @desi_bhayo88 posted a meme showing different people's reactions to the incident, gathering over 500 likes in a day (seen below, right).

On March 20th, Twitter^[6] user @dhaikilokatweet posted a meme about the scene at Patna station, labeling a man being slapped as "station master firing the guy to played porn on station screens," and labeling two men chatting as, "me and my friend making a plan to come to the station tomorrow." The post gathered over 200 likes in a day (seen below).

scene at patna st pic.twitter.com/YIAqbAem7J

— Arun Lol (@dhaikilokatweet) March 20, 2023

Various Instagram^[7] pages posted memes about the incident on March 20th as well, with RVCJInsta posting a Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashmah meme that gathered over 130,000 likes in a day (seen below, left). Instagram^[8] page @log.kya.kahenge posted a "Daddy please" meme about the incident, gathering over 13,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).

On March 20th, 2023, Kendra Lust,^[9] the actress some think to have featured in the the adult film that played on the screens at Patna Junction acknowledged the incident, posting a photo of herself with the caption, "India 🇮🇳 #BiharRailwayStation." The post gathered over 20,000 likes in a day

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