Vernacular Social Media Apps Are Spreading Vulgar Content In India

While our daily life is being covered by a countless number of apps, social media apps, including those in regional languages, have offered more and more vulgar content, especially in India.

TikTok, as well as many other apps, has been strictly criticized for providing misleading content to users. However, that’s not destiny for less famous apps. In fact, these apps are even making huge revenue from unfiltered and pornographic content.

Users can easily find and download such these apps free on the Internet. Some apps may suggest an in-app purchase and allow users to use more special features.

For example, the live-streaming application named ‘Hot Bigo’ has had more than 100,000 downloads on Play Store. It offers lots of sexy images of Asian girls and called these images an album of hot Bigo streaming

In addition to ‘Hot Bigo’, the ‘Vigo Video’ app has also been downloaded millions of times on Google’s Play Store.

Even when Indian users don’t download applications such as ‘Hot Bigo’ and ‘Vigo Video’, they can still see pornographic videos or vulgar content on a lot of famous social media apps from Facebook, Instagram, to WhatsApp. However, after the photo-sharing platform Instagram decided to tighten its current rules concerning vulgar content, creators have had no choice but to stop offering special catergories to adults only.

Besides, some users realize that short-video creating apps like TikTok don’t only make them addicted in an extremely short time but these apps may also expose their private information or involvement to vulgar content to cybercrimes. In some unlucky cases, they can become victims of these bad guys.

Many reports show that if there aren’t enough necessary human moderators, such the content will be filtered via the automated systems integrated into these social media apps.

At the beginning of April, TikTok got banned by the Central government as requested by the Madras High Court when the platform was believed to spoil kids’ minds, as well as the youth’s future. In other words, it’s vulgar content and disinformation that put an end to this app in the Indian market. Fortunately, the ban has recently been withdrawn and Indian users can continue to make short videos on the platform.