The blast started as an outburst of the word ‘Rajakar’ which is used to mean traitors, to the protesting students for quota reform movement. The just ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina also termed them as ‘terrorists’. As a result, students along with the people of all walks rushed to the Shaheed Minar violating the curfew imposed by the government and torrential rain to participate in the 1-point demand, that is ousting Hasina from the chair. Finally, the taste of freedom from the autocratic Hasina regime was met on Monday in the afternoon on the blood of hundreds of martyrs in just a couple of weeks.
The three-term ruling Awami League government collapsed on Monday in the afternoon. As soon as the news of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation came out, Facebook, X and TikTok users expressed their joy by adding different hashtags.
Among those, about 3.1 million users posted more videos on Facebook with the hashtag ‘Bangladesh’ in just six hours. More than 1.5 million videos have been published on TikTok under the same hashtag. Also, users shared more than one lakh posts with the hashtag ‘Sheikh Hasina’ on the former microblog Twitter, that is X till 9 pm. Besides, the trend of Bangladesh flag, Bangladeshi word has been seen more in this social handle.
On the other hand, the red color still dominates the most popular social media Facebook profile picture owned by Meta. At the same time, the users cheered by publishing pictures of the Bangladesh flag and various scenes in red and green colors on Facebook. At this time, apart from the hashtag ‘Bangladesh’, various stimulating hashtags including ‘independence’, ‘revolution’ have been used a lot. Besides expressing their emotions by writing the word ‘independent’ in Facebook stories, many users also shared the Bangladesh flag in Facebook Messenger notes.
Similarly, on the photo sharing platform Instagram, users posted more pictures and videos with the words ‘Bangladesh’, ‘Freedom’, ‘Sheikh Hasina’. More than 70,000 posts with the hashtag ‘Stepdown Fascist Hasina’ have been seen on X. More than 800,000 posts were posted on X with the hashtag ‘Bangladesh’. Along with ‘Victory’, ‘Independence’ hashtags, ‘Sheikh Hasina’ hashtag is at the top in politics category.
