Celebrity endorsement is not a new thing now but these popular personalities are using digital platforms to promote products is something new in the Indian market. Anushka Sharma has got the knack of being in controversies on social media and the latest one is using Apple’s iPhone to promote Google’s new phone, Pixel2XL on Instagram.
Look at this beautiful boy 😍😍😍#Pixel2XL #TeamPixel @GoogleIndia pic.twitter.com/2cVcRnUGG3
— Anushka Sharma (@AnushkaSharma) September 4, 2018
YouTuber Marques Brownlee spotted this and shared on social media before she could delete or correct it. “Ok I don’t even want to know how this keeps happening but it’s hilarious,” he wrote.
Ok I don’t even want to know how this keeps happening but it’s hilarious pic.twitter.com/sUuHVh4exw
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) September 4, 2018
Although some tried defending Anushka, Brownlee wasn’t letting this one go easily.
Maybe the photo transfered from a Pixel phone and posted from an iPhone 🤔🙄
— Assem (@assemdido) September 4, 2018
She uses pixel 2 tho pic.twitter.com/YNbkUwiV1X
— Sreekanth (@sreek995) September 4, 2018
Going through all that work to avoid actually using the Pixel is admirable lol
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) September 4, 2018
Twitteratti were quick to join Marques and expressed their views over this:
Double standards pic.twitter.com/VkqXCblnZu
— Wöłfgâñg_rûśh (@wolfgang_rush) September 4, 2018
How the heck does this keep happening in 2018? 🤦🏻♂️
— Danny Winget (@superscientific) September 4, 2018
Note that Marques has a huge user base with 2.8 million followers on Twitter. He has revealed similar blunder in the past too when Gal Gadot tweeted an endorsement for Huawei using an iPhone.
2018 has certainly become a year of controversy for smartphone brands using unfair ways to promote their products. Firstly Huawei then Xiaomi were involved in using fake images for showing the camera quality of their latest launched phones.
