‘Online Sexual Harassment, Deepfakes’: Keyaa Banerji Hits Back As Silver Medal Triumph Turns Into Nightmare (Photo: X)
\n\nKeyaa Kunal Banerji became an overnight sensation after pulling off a record 140 Kg deadlift, nearly three times her body weight, at the 2026 IPF World Sub-Junior and Junior Classic Powerlifting Championships in Sun City, South Africa. The lift helped Keyaa win a silver medal in the discipline. However, social media can be unforgiving. According to Keyaa, she faced online sexual harassment, impersonating accounts, conversations regarding her ethnicity, ancestry and casts, and thousands of AI-generated images of her body and face morphed and edited in a very disturbing way.
\n\nKeyaa responded to the trolls in a strongly worded post.
\n\n"I recently won a deadlift silver medal at IPF Jr Worlds for India and while I appreciate the support and recognition, as an Indian female athlete I’ve also had to deal with sexual harassment online, accounts impersonating me, disturbing conversations surrounding my ethnicity, ancestry and caste, and the Worst – thousands of AI generated images of me with pictures of my body and face morphed and edited in very disturbing ways – it’s quite unnerving to be waking up everyday to my feed (and…
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