If you have ever gone gaga over your favourite personality or role model in the present times, you would probably not want to miss their throwback pictures when they were maybe much younger, stronger, beautiful and bolder. In fact, a prolonged COVID-19 lockdown has brought up many ideas on to the social media platforms, the latest being #MeAt20. The hashtag has gone viral in just a few hours with the microblogging site Twitter registering over 100k hashtag usages.
The 'Me At 20' has not only indulged the general public, but even politicians, cricket legends, TV presenters, actors, journalists, and many other famous personalities have been posting pictures of their 20-year-old selves.
"Ohh, I was overweight.. or underweight!! I had better curly hair a decade or two ago!! The innocence, hair-still-a-mess regret, the lost charm of the beauty, the missing dimples, the fair or ugly look" - every pic seems to have churned out some good old reminiscences.
Here are some interesting and prominent personalities who have joined the trend tagging leaving people in awe and appreciation.
Anupam Kher, Actor
Virender Sehwag, Former Cricketer
Tisca Chopra, Actress
Baijayant Jay Panda, National Vice-President & Spokesperson, BJP
Gul Panag, Actor
Anup Sahoo, Bhubaneswar DCP
Tejasvi Surya, BJP MP from Karnataka
Arabinda Padhee, Senior IAS Officer
Ananya Das, CMC Commissioner
Sudarsan Pattnaik, Sand Artist
Dilip Tirkey, Former Hockey Captain
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Journalist & Defence Expert
Renuka Shahane, Actor, Writer & Director
Swaroop Rawal, Former Miss India & TV Star
Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, Filmmaker
Prabhu Chawla, Editorial Director of The New Indian Express
Nistula Hebbar, Political Editor of The Hindu
Dr Kumar Vishwas, Indian Hindi poet, Politician, & a lecturer. His "Koi Deewana Kehta Hai, Koi Pagal Samajhta Hai" however promises to never grow old.
Sanjay Jha, National Spokesperson, Congress shared a picture of Tom Cruise with #MeAt20 hashtag.
Dr Ragini Nayak, National Spokesperson AICC
Sudhir Chaudhary, Editor In Chief, Zee News
Smita Prakash, Editor, ANI
Kadambini Sharma, Anchor & Editor- Foreign Affairs NDTV India
Sunanda Vashisht, Political Commentator & Columnist
Take a look at the "Cricket World Cup Trophy At 20"
Priyanka Chaturvedi, Rajya Sabha member
Rajeev Gowda, Rajya Sabha member
Arun Bothra, the wannabe monk, too joined in to share a picture of himself in his late 20s.
And now, voted the best of the lot by many- Jagi Mangat Panda.
While max people stuck to the 20-YO vintage pics, some didn't stop there and added photos of their 30s and 40s. The #MeAt20 however disappointed the young tweeple below 20 years.
The early lockdown days saw another trend on Twitter #10YearsAgo which too was a massive hit. Apart from this, nominating people for their list of favourite books (#7Books) also got a good response.