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Getting on with gibberish
Updated On: 05 May, 2020 09:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Prachi Sibal
The new social media filter has everyone hooked. We get three stand up comics to give it a workout and share their experience

Kajol Srinivasan, Nitin Mirani and Abbas Momin
From Sonam Kapoor to Kriti Sanon, to more recently, Union Minister Smriti Irani, everyone seems to have tried their hand at the trending Augmented Reality (AR) Instagram filter, Guess the Gibberish. Throwing up phonetically similar phrases in gibberish, the filter makes you come up with the correct match for each. The phrases are often funny themselves and have left many users befuddled with the answers. After a few, whether you get the hang of it or not, you are hooked. You might also catch yourself uttering the gibberish out loud while the video records your uncanny expressions. We got three Mumbai-based comedians to test it out for us. Here's what they observed, jokes included.
Kajol Srinivasan
Initial thoughts
I absolutely HATE being part of social media challenges. And I saw loads of idiots doing this one, so I actually tried it to mock them on Twitter. I thought I would do a round to see how it works. Ten minutes later, I was 35 videos down. I put up many of them on my Insta story with a disclaimer 'I'm really bad at this'. And a resounding, 'Yes! you suck' is what I got.
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