While hosting popular show ‘Saturday Night Live’ (SNL), 'Fifty Shades of Grey' actress Dakota Johnson drew an uncalled social media wrath with a spoof of a Toyota advert in which Johnson played a character who joins ISIS (IS).
In the original Toyota commercial, a father drops his daughter at the airport where she is heading off to join the military. In the SNL version, Johnson heads off to join ISIS fighters, telling her emotional father ‘Dad, it’s just ISIS’.
Though the skit was made for the comic purpose but people didn’t find it funny and Twitter erupted in outrage over the skit.
According to foreign media reports, ‘SNL’ was tweeted about 25,000 times, according to Nielsen data. Of these tweets, about 9,926 contained ‘reactions’ or tweets with emotions. An estimated 8.7% of those reaction tweets contained the topic ISIS, including 1.3% that contained the hashtag #ISIS. Some of the reaction tweets contained the hashtag #notfunny.
The skit came after the news of three British schoolgirls who run away to join ISIS.
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