{"id":73586,"date":"2025-10-14T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/73586\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:37:09","slug":"chinmayi-sripada-slams-trolls-for-bullying-kbc-17-contestant-ishit-bhatt-horrible-bunch-of-bullies-netizens-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/73586\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinmayi Sripada slams trolls for bullying KBC 17 contestant Ishit Bhatt: \u2018Horrible bunch of bullies..\u2019; netizens agree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articleDetail_content__LXgYY\">If you\u2019ve been anywhere near social media lately, you\u2019ve likely come across the debate surrounding Kaun Banega Crorepati 17&#8217;s young contestant Ishit Bhatt. What began as a lighthearted clip praising host Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s patience with the young participant quickly spiralled into a storm of memes and trolling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ishit_1760426204252_1760426217941.jpeg\" alt=\"Chinmayi Sripada and Ishit Bhatt\" title=\"Chinmayi Sripada and Ishit Bhatt\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\"\/>Chinmayi Sripada and Ishit Bhatt<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleDetail_content__LXgYY \">The fifth-grade student from Gujarat initially won hearts for his confidence and quick wit on the show. But soon, many viewers began criticising his tone, calling him \u201carrogant\u201d and \u201cdisrespectful\u201d toward the legendary host \u2014 even though Bachchan remained his usual calm and cheerful self throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleDetail_content__LXgYY  0-0-0\">As short clips of the episode went viral across Reddit and X (formerly Twitter), Ishit became one of the most discussed names online \u2014 unfortunately for all the wrong reasons. The trolling grew so intense that it caught the attention of playback singer Chinmayi Sripada, who decided to speak up in his defence.<\/p>\n<p>Chinmayi Sripada defends the boy<\/p>\n<p>Taking to her X account on Monday, Sripada called out the hypocrisy of adults mocking a child on the internet. \u201cAn adult putting a tweet saying most hated kid. Adults here on Twitter have been one of the most lousy, foul-mouthed, abusive lot; none of these voices said a thing when kids died due to a cough syrup,\u201d she wrote. She continued, \u201cBut yeah pick on a kid. Says a LOT about the ecosystem. This entire lot is picking on one overexcited kid \u2013 what a horrible bunch of bullies these have raised themselves to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleDetail_content__LXgYY  0-0-4\">Sripada\u2019s statement has sparked a wave of support for the young contestant, with many agreeing that online criticism of a child crosses the line. \u201cExactly it has spread like wildfire\u2026we all were not well behaved when we were kids. Life has its way of sculpting our character.. it&#8217;s too bad that people are sharing this clip without thinking of the kids future,\u201d said one comment under her post. \u201cAdults have the tendency to forget, how they were in childhood..\u201d said one more comment. Another read, \u201cOh this is so sad ,the kid is precocious but one doesn&#8217;t have to hate lil ones.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve been anywhere near social media lately, you\u2019ve likely come across the debate surrounding Kaun Banega Crorepati&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52333,52338,146,85,52334,46,52335,52336,52337],"class_list":{"0":"post-73586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-chinmayi-sripada","9":"tag-chinmayi-sripada-ishit-bhatt","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-ishit-bhatt","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-kaun-banega-crorepati-17","15":"tag-online-criticism","16":"tag-social-media-debate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}