IPL 2022 Updates: Rajasthan Royals fire their social media team

After skipper Sanju Samson complained about his modified image, the Rajasthan Royals are likely to sack their social media manager.

Making altered photos and utilising them as memes is fairly prevalent these days. Also, it is sometimes even a necessary component of effective marketing. Also, while it is understandable that friends make fun of each other by generating memes, it appears like an official team insulting their own player by creating a morphed image of them is a little unethical.

On the official Twitter account of the IPL team Rajasthan Royals, something similar happened. "Kya khoob lagte ho," the franchise in Jaipur captioned a modified image of Sanju Samson making fun of the Kerala cricketer.

"Teams should be professional"- Sanju Samson

However, the skipper, who had been a good sport in the past, did not take it well and viewed it as an insult. He quote retweeted the post and wrote: "Its ok for friends to do all this but teams should be professional."

https://twitter.com/IamSanjuSamson/status/1507303756341334016

Yuzvendra Chahal, who has been uploading such photographs of cricketers on his social media, was the target of his ire.

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Rajasthan Roayls' management has fired the whole social media team

Following the incident, Rajasthan Royals' management sacked the whole social media team. They also announced the formation of a new team with a fresh digital strategy.

In a statement released by RR, they said, "In light of today's events, we will be making changes to our approach and team on social media. Everything is well within the squad ahead of the first game as the boys prepare for SRH. The management will revisit our overall digital strategy and appoint a new team in due course."

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"We realise that it is the IPL season and fans want the account to post updates regularly. We will find temporary solutions in the interim," they stated whilst concluding.