Wonder why ‘SRK National Hero’ and ‘Salman National Criminal’ are trending? Details inside

The Wikipedia controversy

In the last few days, you might have come across pieces of news telling you how Shah Rukh Khan happens to be world's second highest searched filmstar, according to Wikipedia. It later turned out to be a trick done by SRK fans. Since the virtual encyclopedia can be edited by anyone, SRK's name was misfittingly inserted there and the same position now holds Johnny Depp's name. #Wikiscam soon started trending on Twitter. But we didn't see a bigger war coming!

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In no time, SRK's fan clubs were on the field (read: Twitter) to protect their favourite superstar's reputation from being maligned.

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As a result, 'SRK National Hero' soon started trending.

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Fans dug out SRK's past achievements to defend the hashtag.

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The entire episode looked a like a thorough reminder of all good things he's achieved.

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And we must say, fans did that quite impactfully.

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And of course, his most-accomplished films were brought up once again.

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But it didn't remain to just glorifying SRK.

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In fact, it soon became an SRK vs Salman battle.

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'Salman National Criminal' started trending.

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Some were 'prompt' enough in drawing comparisons.

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From the infamous hit-n-run case to Salman being arrested in past, all showed up on our Twitter feeds.

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And needless to say, memes made their way too!

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Some were sarcastic, and some straightforward as hell.

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We wonder how it all cropped up, but we do hope this doesn't impact SRK and Salman's relationship, which in past underwent quite a lot of ups and downs.