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From Tragedy to Trend: Meme Culture, Content Creation, and the Legal Vacuum in India
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Baisali Bhattacharya
Advocate at Barrackpore Sub-divisional Court, India.
Abstract
Modern digital technologies enable the progressive disappearance of boundaries between entertaining people and exploiting their lives. Human experience has become abnormal thanks to two factors: the widespread development of memes and the pervasive practice of converting daily occurrences into social media content. A worrying practice has emerged that turns the 2025 Meerut murder case involving the brutal murder of a merchant navy officer into a viral meme after his remains were discovered in a blue drum. The article examines the trauma-commercialization activities of meme culture as it affects public awareness and ethical, legal aspects. A socio-legal investigation reveals that Indian laws fail to properly govern digital content so that digital public participants can protect their dignity.
Keywords
- Blue-drum meme
- content creation
- cyber regulation
- digital ethics
- Indian law
- Meerut murder case
- meme culture
- social media
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Article
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International Journal of Law Management and Humanities, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 1850 - 1858
DOI: https://doij.org/10.10000/IJLMH.119286Creative Commons
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