Virat Kohli debunks rumours of him charging Rs 11 crore per Instagram post, Twitter reacts

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Virat Kohli has cleared the air about his social media earnings. The cricketer hit headlines after a report by Hopper HQ, a social media marketing platform reported that Kohli charged a whopping Rs 11.45 crore per Instagram post! The cricketer was also named the third highest-earning sportsperson on the Meta-owned app. The former captain of the Indian cricket team took to Twitter to clarify his Instagram revenues once and for all.

“While I am grateful and indebted to all that I’ve received in life, the news that has been making rounds about my social media earnings is not true,” he wrote. The post went viral, attracting 1.8 million views and 68.4K likes. Netizens had a field day poking fun at the cricketer.

One wrote, “While I am grateful and indebted to all that I’ve received in life" I thought it's a retirement post for a second ngl.” “If Kohli login to twitter to clarify each of his rumours, man can earn crores by twitter impressions… This is called suffering from success,” quipped another. Another taunted that he should own up to the fact that he had ‘faked’ number of followers on Instagram. “It's high time you should tweet the same about your fake insta followers too bro,” wrote a Twitter user.

Earlier, StockGro, a Bengaluru-based trading company had claimed that Kohli had a networth of a whopping Rs 1050 crore. The report stated that the cricketer changed Rs 8 crore per Instagram post and Rs 2.5 crore per tweet. Kohli is currently one of the most followed sports people on Instagram, with about 253 million followers.