On April 17, BBC’s travelling unit, BBC Pop-Up, released a short video story on how snake charmers have been banned in India.
As part of the story, they tweeted a poll asking users if India should "erase its snake charming culture to embrace modernity" followed by the "🐍🏢" emojis.
However, with no context given in the tweet, Indians did not respond well to it.
People started responding to the BBC with stereotype-busting speeches from popular Bollywood films...
And polls of their own...
At the time of publishing, this is how the poll was going.
Even non-Indians were confused about the tweet.
It's safe to say that the BBC dropped the ball on this one.
