Ranveer Allahabadia loses thousands of subscribers after 'India's Got Latent' row: Report

Ranveer Allahabadia, who has over 16 million followers across social media platforms, landed in soup after a video of his controversial comments started doing the rounds on social media and led to a massive debate on freedom of speech and what constitutes decency.

The YouTuber has been losing followers since his vulgar question at Samay Raina's show India's Got Latent.

While there is no exact number for the subscribers he lost, different reports are showing different analyses of his follower count over the past few days.

As per an analysis by Social Blade, the YouTuber has lost around 100K subscribers on the social media platform between February 11 and 12.

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Meanwhile, as per the HypeAuditor report, the influencer's subscriber count went down from 10,649,710 on February 10 to 10,484,755 on February 13.

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As per a media report quoting Qoruz analysis, Allahabadia lost 8000 followers to the controversy, of which 4153 followers were from his personal account and 4205 were from BeerBiceps.

Meanwhile, the influencer has apologised for his controversial remark that led to many calling for a ban on his podcast. Politicians, including Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and opposition leaders of the state, criticised him for exploiting freedom of speech.

In an apology video on X on Monday, Allahbadia admitted that his comment was not only inappropriate but also not funny.

"Comedy is not my forte. Just here to say sorry," the YouTuber, popularly known as BeerBiceps, said in the video.

"Many of you asked if this is how I wish to use my platform. Obviously, this is not how I wish to use my platform. I am not going to give any context, justification or reasoning behind whatever happened. I am just here for an apology. I, personally, had a lapse in judgement. It wasn't cool on my part."

The social media influencer, who has been criticised for setting a bad example for the youth who are his primary audience, said he doesn't want to be the kind of person who takes responsibility lightly.

"Family is the last thing that I would ever disrespect. Need to use this platform better and that's been my learning from this whole experience. I promise to just get better. Have asked the makers of the video to remove the insensitive sections from the video and all I can say in the end is sorry. I hope you can forgive me as a human being," he said.

Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has asked Allahabadia, Samay Raina, Apoorva Makhija, Jaspreet Singh and Ashish Chanchlani, as well as the show's producers Tushar Poojari and Saurabh Bothra to appear before it on February 17 in New Delhi.

(With PTI inputs)