YouTube's Pandora Of Scripted Marriage Videos: Why Do They Go Viral?
By Vipul Kumar On July 12, a video was posted on Twitter showing a man standing with two women — both of them dressed as brides. The tweet went viral with the misleading claim that a father forcefully married his two daughters, one 20-year-old and the other, 19. Over 2 minutes long, the video was uploaded by a Twitter user named Mohammad Tanveer, (@Iam_TanvirMts). In his bio, Tanveer calls himself a freelance journalist. The tweet has amassed nearly 4k likes and nearly 3K retweets since it was posted. "Father is Hindu, girl is also Hindu. Now no one's feelings will be hurt," the tweet read. It...