TikTok star Faizal Siddiqui glorified acid attack, Account Blocked!

Yes, you read it right! Even today, people can go beyond morals to generate engagement on social media. Faizal Siddiqui, a TikTok star with more than 13 million-plus following on the platform was recently banned.

TikTok mentioned that the account was banned “due to multiple community guidelines violations”. Faizal Siddiqui posted a video recently in which he allegedly glorified acid attack on a girl. 

In the video, Faizal says the line: “Tumhe usne chhorr diya jiske liye tumne mujhe chhorra tha? (The guy you left me for, has left you?”) after which the scene shows acid thrown on a girl and whose face gets disfigured by it. 

The internet criticized the video and it got backlashes from a few prominent faces. Hurt by the emotions expressed in the video, acid attack survivor Lakshmi Agarwal took to Instagram to criticize and also thank National Commission for Women for taking cognizance of the viral video. 

Her post also focuses on how they are fighting hard to stop unfortunate incidents like this but such activities make it harder for them. She also pushed her cause wherein she urges restriction on Acid Sale, a valid point to be supported by us.

Check her post and the video Laxmi Agarwal criticized below:

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Thanks to National Commission for Women for taking cognizane of the viral video by TikTok ‘influencer’ Faizal Siddiqui promoting acid attack.Such videos/actions should be strictly debarred which are against the society. We are working day and night to stop the acid attacks , violence against women. This cringe activity is not called influencing but promoting crime. Such persons are curse to our society. So it is important to ban such videos and accounts from the social media. Come forward-we urge you to stop acid violence-Stop Sale Acid @ncwindia

A post shared by Laxmi Agarwal (@thelaxmiagarwal) on May 18, 2020 at 2:06am PDT

Pooja Bhatt took to twitter and expressed her concern over the content Faizal Siddiqui published on his TikTok Account. She said the content was depraved. 

Here is Pooja Bhatt’s tweet: 

What on earth is wrong with people? This is depraved. How can you allow this kind of content on your platform @TikTok_IN This man needs to be taken to task. As for the woman in the video-do you realise what immense harm you are causing by participating in this? https://t.co/I5OLTEZGVe

— Pooja Bhatt (@PoojaB1972) May 18, 2020

Actor Ashish Chowdhry too expressed concern over the content here:

Pure example of the sick and diseased side of social media. @TikTok_IN must show sense by chopping of its tumour infected parts.
Theres a bunch of stupidly enthusiastic people doing just about anythin on social media,who must be shown the door in order to keep a proper decorum. https://t.co/8jLobGyapC

— Ashish Chowdhry (@AshishChowdhry) May 18, 2020

It’s good to see people we admire are speaking against such demeaning content. But it’s not enough; everyone with the power to influence and followed hugely should act responsibly. 

As said in the movie, Spiderman:

With great power comes great responsibilities!

Everyone with a good number of following and a huge fan base should be responsible enough to reflect some good thoughts in the people instead of creating such conflicting content.

Recently, TikTok has been in radar after the so-called war between YouTube and TikTok. Many people have rated lowly the App TikTok on Play Store recently and creating such content will only add to the rejection of the App in India.

However, TikTok took a very stern step by taking down Faizal Siddiqui’s Account, and it should be appreciated. A majority of the youth is on TikTok, and that makes it essential to keep these platforms healthier than ever before.