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Number of people using smartphones, all figures in million.

Web win

Family in folds

Montreal-based trans-artist Kama La Mackerel's Facebook post has an inspiring message. "Embroidered in these six yards are the 30 years it took me to find who I am," she said of the sari from her mother, which embodied an acceptance of sorts.

Twitter tattle

Still No Rape Culture?

Canadian author Kelly Oxford tweeted about her first groping experience in the wake of Trump's 'locker room talk', starting off a trend. Her post asking women to share their first experience of sexual assault was shared over 40,000 times and recorded 50 responses per minute.

Insta chatter

Author's Aura

Shilpa Shetty Kundra was at a traffic signal when a roadside hawker attempted to sell her own book, The Great Indian Diet, to her. Shilpa's Instagram post, which features the hawker's delighted smile upon recognising her, has received over 30,000 likes.

Net fail

No refuge here

Priyanka Chopra's look on the anniversary cover of Conde Nast Traveller is getting a lot of buzz, but not for the right reasons. Her tank top has the words refugee, immigrant and outsider struck out with 'traveller' replacing it. Called dehumanising, degrading and insensitive, the photo failed with the Twitterati as well.

Web lol

Then and Now

Forget martinis, an ex-James Bond prefers paan masala, or so suggests Pierce Brosnan in a recent TV and newspaper ad blitz. The tagline, 'Class never goes out of style', took it too far, thought amused Bond fans. Some wondered if he had been told it was an exotic herb while others photoshopped him dribbling paan.

Viral video

A girl going through an obstacle course built by her father wowed over a million

Over 2 million watched comedian James Corden take over the Arsenal football club

A butterfly disrupting the calm of a koala bear amused over 300,000 people