PIB Gets Trolled on Twitter for Its Modi Photoshop Stunt

The situation in Chennai is still very grim but there is one picture that tickled Twitter’s funny bone.

The situation in Chennai is still quite grim but there is one picture that tickled Twitter’s funny bone.

The Press Information Bureau was the talk of Twitter on Thursday as some of its rather enthusiastic colleagues did this:

PIB probably didn’t imagine what a gigantic goof-up it was. Not to worry. Twitter made sure the message was received.

Photoshop Gujarat Model successfully implemented at Centre. PIB tweets Photoshop pictures. Well Done !! pic.twitter.com/FMzezWM6Cy

— Vinod Mehta (@DrunkVinodMehta) December 3, 2015

Bharathiya Photoshop Party! :) Press Information Bureau of India, Stay away from photoshop! We have humanity... https://t.co/CCM3ITkGhl

— Ansif Habib (@beingAnsif) December 3, 2015

Very silly of @PIB_India to photo-shop @PMOIndia aerial survey of Chennai image. What's the point of such tinkering! pic.twitter.com/XNwdpT2qvG

— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) December 3, 2015

So PIB has deleted the original tweet, but here it is. Our dear PM surveying a shoddy Photoshop job. pic.twitter.com/Dz9wlmurUE

— Bobin James (@Bobin_James) December 3, 2015

@PIB_India @narendramodi ab ki baar photoshop sarkaar

— Mrutyunjay (@mpadhiary) December 3, 2015

I think after tricolour incident, now Modi govt should officially rename PIB as "Photoshop Imaging Bureau" @PIB_India #ModiInMalaysia

— Hemant (@hemant_p) November 21, 2015

Frankly, this is just the beginning. Twitter hasn’t stopped ever since this little nugget of news broke. Just log in and type “PIB” and “Photoshop” and you’ll be flooded (excuse the expression) with comments.