Girl meets boy gets biryani gets sexually assaulted. That is the pithiest summation of a recent rape “joke” gone viral. The incident in question took place several days ago, but the video got attention this week, resulting in widespread condemnation, calls for boycotting/deplatforming the comedian who hosted it, and the firing of the man who narrated the purported incident.

From narration to virality to consequences, the life cycle of this particular rape joke may be one of the shortest in history, perhaps because now, in 2026, you can’t turn the violation of consent into a punchline without facing a backlash. The glass-half-full-ers among us draw some comfort from this — the man who described sexually assaulting a woman paid, the comedian who encouraged his vile joke paid.

Which would leave the more troubling truth largely unexamined: That even in 2026, it is entirely possible to........

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