People of Bombay founder Karishma Mehta, who’s being slammed on social media after she filed a case of copyright infringement towards Folks of India, has been receiving extra criticism for her feedback in an older video.
Within the video posted on X by a consumer, Mehta mentioned that the concept to begin the massively fashionable social media web page that shares heart-warming tales of the individuals of Mumbai, got here to her “utterly randomly”.
“Fully randomly and out of the blue, I stumbled upon the concept of People of Bombay and I began it. And it clicked. That interval was a excessive of its personal to begin one thing new,” she mentioned within the video. The video has gone viral and social media customers should not holding again on the subject of criticising Mehta’s “lie”.
One of many customers referred to as out the “scrumptious coincidence”. “And the idea and the identify turned out to be a precise reproduction of Human of New York…rattling!,” he wrote on X.
Mehta discovered herself in a sticky state of affairs after Brandon Stanton, the founding father of storytelling platform People of New York, reacted towards Mehta’s case. Hitting out at People of Bombay, Brandon mentioned that he has saved quiet in regards to the appropriation of his unique work by Mehta’s platform. “However you possibly can’t be suing individuals for what I’ve forgiven you for,” he acknowledged on his Instagram tales.
The dialogue didn’t finish there. People of Bombay launched an in depth assertion in response to Brandon’s “cryptic assault”. “Maybe earlier than leaping the gun on this matter, you must have geared up your self with the details about the case additionally about what HOB is making an attempt to do,” it mentioned.
