Hashtags like #PUBG, #ChineseAppsBanned, #PUBGBanned, and #Tencent started trending on the microblogging site.
Here’s how social media users flooded Twitter with hilarious reactions, including jokes and memes:
#PUBG # PUBGBANNED # PUBGMOBILE Indian parents after hearing India’s pubg ban. https://t.co/hp1dVsgsNx
– 🦋 (@__riUuu__) 1599051261000
Ban #PUBGIndian parents be like …. 😀 https://t.co/GD19T2G8dw
– Priyanka Shukla (@PriyankaJShukla) 1599057194000
TENCENT #PUBG banned in IndiaFreeFire rn: https://t.co/O0sYVu5B9Y
– Arpit Shrivastava (@Sarkar_stic) 1599057124000
People who bought royal pass this session 😂😂 # PUBG https://t.co/N0uJTI1kw5
– Bhaskar Soni (@ Bhaskarsoni07) 1599058390000
Every pubg rn user 🥺😭 # PUBG #PUBGBANNED #PUBGMOBILE https://t.co/4wRve3pcyd
– Nikhil Tathed (@tathednikhil) 1599051260000
#PUBG #PUBGMOBILE prohibited !! Tiktok users to pubg users right now: https://t.co/MfvDj0YDIQ
– Chesse O_o (@ammy_mehra) 1599055841000
#Modi government. : * bans # pubg * Parents: https://t.co/d5cs5IesED
– avantika khajuria (@ avantikakhajur1) 1599058556000
#PUBG Ban in India 🇮🇳Le Free Fire To #PUBG Player: https://t.co/qOyUsobuq7
– Khan Zaid Pathan (@ZaidOptimist) 1599058803000
PUBG mobile app has around 33 million active users in India. PUBG was developed by a South Korean company, but the mobile version that has taken off around the world was developed by the Chinese company Tencent.
The list of 118 apps, mostly Chinese, also includes apps from Baidu and Xiaomi’s ShareSave.
These “applications collect and share data surreptitiously and compromise personal data and user information that may pose a serious threat to state security,” the government said in a statement.
He added that the apps threaten the “sovereignty and integrity” of India.
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