Angry With Surf Excel, Indian 'Patriots' Give Microsoft Excel 1-Star Ratings On Google Play

[Foxtrot Delta]

LOL indians .... Can't differntiate between google apps and detergent soaps... ​

 

[Kambojaric]

This is hilarious lol

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

 

[macnurv]

A new advertisement for Surf Excel detergent, which shows a girl dropping her Muslim friend at a mosque to pray on Holi, has drawn a huge amount of flak on social media platforms as being anti-Hindu. And, apart from Facebook and Twitter, the keyboard nationalists have also taken to showing their displeasure by review-bombing Excel on the Google Play store. Not Surf Excel though—the negative reviews are turning up on Microsoft Excel.

As of now, the number of negative reviews are still pretty low—but the controversy has only just started to brew, and this could well grow with time. One of the latest reviews, which gives the app 5 stars, states, “I used to like this app, until they partnered with Surf and made such a disgusting anti religious ad. Now where ever I read the word Excel I can only think of anti Hindu propaganda. Shame on you for doing this.”

There is, of course, no partnership between Microsoft and Surf. The controversy around the Surf Excel ad is needlessly bizarre, as the advertisement promotes religious harmony and doesn’t actually make any negative statement, but logic and rhetoric are often divorced in India.

A one-star rating review is much more direct and to the point. The user writes, “boykot sarf excel. hindu birodh hai. pakisthan me ja kar business kar.” (Boycott Surf Excel. It is anti-Hindu. Take your business to Pakistan.) Another, coming in late in the day, writes, “Ye hindu virodhi hai,” meaning “this is anti-Hindu.”

Another one-star review from earlier on Monday goes into much more detail in Malayalam. The author writes: ”എടാ രാജ്യദ്രോഹികളെ, ഞങൾ സംഘം ഒന്ന് മനസ്സുവെച്ചാൽ നിന്റെയൊക്കെ സർഫെക്‌സൽ കച്ചവടവും പൂട്ടി കണ്ടം വഴി ഓടേണ്ടി വെരും നീയൊക്കെ. നിനക്കൊന്നും സംഘ പ്രവർത്തകരെ അറിയില്ല. ജയ് ഗോമാതാ..”

Translated, that roughly means: “You traitors, if we put our minds to it you’ll have to close your Surf Excel business and flee. You don’t know Sangh workers. Jai Gaumata”.

Now, as we pointed out, it’s only been a short while since the ad came out and the criticism began, so the number of reviews could rise. And it’s entirely likely that some of these reviews could have been put up as a joke—to parody the nationalist mindset, with phrases like ‘Jai Gaumata’ sprinkled in.

And on the plus side, while there are some negative reviews, the majority of reviews at this point (coming from users with names that sound to be of Indian origin) for the Excel app are mostly positive, or if negative, then related to the features of the app.

However, this is not the first time that Indians have used app ratings as a means of expressing displeasure—and worse, it’s not even the first time that we’ve review-bombed the wrong app!
Hopefully, before the number of one-star ratings rises for the Excel app, people will realise that they’re targeting the wrong app, or better still, conclude that this whole controversy makes no sense. However, going by what you’ll find in reviews around the Internet, that might be asking for too much.

Checking online, we found that people have been more accurately targeting Surf on e-commerce sites. Surf’s detergent has the review: “worst product ever... and it also has a religious issue in advertisements... it devide [sic] communities in India so dnt use it.”

These are not your average stupid, these are snowflake stupids.

 

[GodToons]

And as little fact digging using google plus profile of the user showed that one madarsachap guy changed his name and posted this comment. His number is still available on google+ profile. Call him and get his real name.
Big LOL!!

 

[scorpionx]

Right wing Nationalists( even authors, economists, scientists) all over the world have suffered from low IQ issues. No surprise here.

 

[Rusty]

Everyone needs to go to the Excel Google play store...... funniest thing I've seen all day.

Gotta love low IQ Indians

 

[maximuswarrior]

Not a single RSS Indian member to be found in such threads LOL

 

[Baby Leone]

when these Indians can believe in illogical BS their govt feeds them 24/7 about Pakistan, China, Sikhs, Christians and Muslims, they can believe anything.

such a big illiterate lot can be disastrous for whole world.

Surely in this context you mean "over-sensitive".

And there are many sensible Indians too, like those have hope on Aman ki Asha.

but unfortunately those indians have already been declared traitors or killed, lynched by Hindu extremists while the remaining ones dont dare to ask.

 

[Sabretooth]

the keyboard nationalists have also taken to showing their displeasure by review-bombing Excel on the Google Play store. Not Surf Excel though—the negative reviews are turning up on Microsoft Excel.

 

[Men in Green]

i have no fking words to describe stupidity of indians , thats why we muslims ruled india for about 1000 years.
fking dumbest people alive on this planet.

 

[Baby Leone]

i have no fking words to describe stupidity of indians , thats why we muslims ruled india for about 1000 years.
fking dumbest people alive on this planet.

this defines Two nation theory as well
the reason why Sir Jinnah think that its impossible to live with these creatures.

 

[I.R.A]

A new advertisement for Surf Excel detergent, which shows a girl dropping her Muslim friend at a mosque to pray on Holi, has drawn a huge amount of flak on social media platforms as being anti-Hindu.

Salam hy un mao ko jino nay aisi qaum ko janam dia jiss nay iss ad may b Anti Hindu cheez pakar li .... salam hy boss ........ tum logo ki tang nazari ko.

 

[jamahir]

but unfortunately those indians have already been declared traitors or killed, lynched by Hindu extremists while the remaining ones dont dare to ask.

Well, let's see what comes out from the General Elections.

 

[jamahir]

Meanwhile in the REAL world,

This is what happens when a Hindu dalit boy Sanjay marries a neighborhood muslim girl Ruksana, after both of them fell in love.

If Sanjay was really tortured and killed by humans, Muslims even, then I say execute them by firing squad with the exercise being broadcast over live TV.

If you are looking at the religion angle the we must also speak of the also heinous gang-rape, torture and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey in December 2012 where most of the criminals belonged to the same religion as the victim.

But what India needs : encouragement of inter-religion and inter-caste marriages to remove the generational hate that is embedded in various rituals and rites of common Indian life.