How Swedes react when their politicians post instagram pictures containing their genitals
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Swedish MP Lars Ohly accidentally posted a private picture on Instagram that included his penis, which remained online for 11 minutes before being removed. While he received both supportive and humorous responses, a majority of the Swedish population remained indifferent or forgiving of his mistake, with 65% expressing indifference and only 25% viewing it negatively. Ultimately, his reputation took a slight hit, but only half of the population was aware of the incident.
How Swedes react when their politicians post instagram pictures containing their genitals
- 1. What happens when a swedish politician accidentally shows his penis on Instagram?
- 2. The story
- 3. The 24 July Lars Ohly, Swedish MP on vacation, posted a quite private picture on Instagram
- 4. The picture showed his calf with a tattoo of Liverpool FC's liver bird
- 5. But, supposedly by accident, the picture also included his penis
- 6. Here is the actual picture:
- 7. The picture was online for 11 minutes before the media noticed his faux pas
- 8. Lars Ohly received a phone call, consequently removed the picture, and joked about the whole thing on twitter
- 9. By that time the picture had spread on the Internet
- 10. Lars joking ”My wife is laughing at the penis pic. ’Onwards I’ll be previewing all pics you post on instagram’”
- 11. The picture hit the news
- 12. Some made gentleman fun of him on twitter "Congratulations. Finally, after all these years you've made this genuine public breakthrough."
- 13. He mostly received supportive tweets from regular swedes on twitter
- 14. And in midst of swedish summer heat and holiday that seemed to be the end of the matter
- 15. But, how did the Swedish people actually react to his revealing blunder?
- 16. The statistics
- 17. 65 % of Swedes are actually indifferent to the picture!
- 18. And in the context of free expression, 38 % think it was a good thing
- 19. Whereas 35 % simply don’t care
- 20. 78 % have an unchanged confidence in his role as a MP
- 21. 53 % think that the picture does not reflect on his competence as a MP
- 22. Conclusions
- 23. Conclusions Big majority of Swedish population are forgiving and understanding in this case Many Swedes simply didn’t care Lars Ohly got away with his faux pas
- 24. However, around a quarter of the Swedes did not look kindly on the mistake So, his reputation did get a blow Luckily for him though, only half of the Swedes had read about him publishing the picture, so any damage should be halved Conclusions
- 25. How would the people in your country react to such a revealing picture?
- 26. Mistakes are bound to increase as politicians make more use of social media Boundries of what is accepted behaveour will probably be crossed Keep updated about what the population thinks with PlantaQuestion
- 27. The questions about the reactions to Lars Ohly’s picture were asked through the online research service PlantaQuestion (www.plantaquestion.co.uk) 1035 Swedes responded to the qusetions (out of 2066 asked). Their distribution reflects the Swedish population aged 18-70 YO in terms of age, gender and region. About the statistics The questions were asked during the period 2013-07-25 to 2013-07-31, just a few days after the picture had been posted on Instagram. The questions were distributed through 80 of Swedens online survey panels, comprising around 500 000 active members.
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