Man Named ‘Kovid’ Goes Viral After Sharing Stories Of How His Name Has Been A Nightmare

• A man by the name of Kovid Kapoor took to social media to share how his name has led to countless awkward interactions over the past year
• Mr. Kovid shared stories of the ways people have misspelled his name, assumed it was fake, and openly joke about his name’s association
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Having your name hijacked by pop culture sucks. Anyone out there named Karen knows this. It’s also why when they announced The Matrix Resurrections I had flashbacks to years of people calling me ‘Mr. Aaaanderson’ in that stupid Agent Smith voice. A man named Kovid can relate.

His name’s been completely hijacked in the past 2+ years by the news because it sounds like that thing you don’t go more than 60 seconds without hearing about. Everywhere Kovid Kapoor goes, his name follows him and people laugh at it, make jokes about it, or confuse it as being misspelled.

He recently hopped onto Twitter to share a few tweets about how his name ‘Kovid’ has been hijacked in the past two years and we need to send this dude some cheer. The name Kovid actually translates to ‘scholar’ or ‘learned’ in Hindi but instead he’s getting misspelled cakes and laughed at when he goes to Starbucks…

Man Named Kovid Shares Tweets About How His Name Is Now A Nightmare

For my 30th bday, my friends ordered a cake – and Amintiri automatically assumed that it's some kinda joke, and it should be spelled with a C not a K. pic.twitter.com/3jrySteSbC

— Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor)

Twitter

The Kovid + Corona joke that noone ever seems to stop talking about. pic.twitter.com/cJ5VsHzhD0

— Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor)

Twitter

At Starbucks, the guy handing me the coffee pointed out the name to everyone else and they burst out laughing – I mostly use a fake name now. pic.twitter.com/79STYv2uG6

— Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor)

Twitter

When Google though that I misspelled my name, in my own Gmail search pic.twitter.com/sNtZs3GmUb

— Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor)

Twitter

A Zoomcar customer care guy called me, to process some pending refund, and told me that he had been laughing in the room with the other customer care folks before the call.

— Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor)

Twitter

Apart from these, there have been tens of funny micro-interactions, with Amazon delivery guys, with electricians, at airport security, at hotel check-ins, etc.

The real thrill is before the start of a new interaction – is there gonna be another little joke, or not?

— Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor)

Twitter

I'm quite used to really enunciate my name, stressing that it's a soft D and not a hard D. And to quickly whip out my PAN card from my wallet, just to prove that it REALLY is my name.

— Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor)

Twitter

Anyway – life threw me (and all of us) a sour lemon, I just decided to take it all in good humour and make some lemonade out of it.
Thrilled at how viral the main thread got, feel like a mini celeb for a few hours

— Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor)

Twitter

The funny + sad part is that there's gonna be a lot more of these in the future, I believe for the rest of my life

— Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor)

Twitter

This isn’t too different from when a person suddenly becomes a meme and has no idea how to react. Some people try to ignore the viral fame, others laugh at it and lean into it making the transition a lot easier and more enjoyable. He appears to be doing the latter. You can change your name but why bother? It’s an interesting talking point now and it will lead to funny interactions everywhere he goes.

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