A video of the Canadian poet Rupi Kaur reciting her poem Milk and Honey went viral on Twitter, sparking a hilarious meme fest. Rupi is popular for writing poems in blank verse. On November 4, 2014, she self-published her first book, Milk and Honey, on Amazon’s self-publishing service called CreateSpace.The book later went on to become a New York Times bestseller. Her writing style is quite lucid and easily comprehensible for the general public. Although Milk and Honey remained a bestseller for almost three years, some people criticized her writing for its lack of depth.On April 8, Twitter user @still_oppressed dropped a TikTok clip where Rupi recited a few lines from the third section, “The Breaking,” from her collection of poems and prose in Milk and Honey. The user captioned it as:keyvan@still_oppressedAirdropping this onto every phone on the plane before takeoff 233141651Airdropping this onto every phone on the plane before takeoff https://t.co/2LcohCKancThe way Rupi Kaur read out those lines, along with certain hand gestures and facial expressions, gave some major cringe to the viewers. One Twitter user, @smolandsed, replied to the video with a picture meme in which the text overlay said:curves ft curls@smolandsed@still_oppressed109@still_oppressed https://t.co/UNamhOffFQTwitter reacts to Rupi Kaur's Milk and Honey recitationThough the 30-year-old poet recited her poem animatedly, as if she was reciting slam poetry, the presentation seemed like a caricature. Several netizens unfamiliar with Rupi’s face thought it was someone else parodying the poet. The tweet by @still_oppressed has since fetched over 20 million views and 23.3K likes.Some also praised Rupi Kaur for her marketing genius, which made Milk and Honey an NYT bestseller while grabbing her other deals. A few users also cringed at the lines she recited:“You must have known/ you were wrong/ when your fingers were dipped inside me/ searching for honey/ that would not come for you.”One user shared a photo of famous Victorian poet Emily Dickinson and joked that Rupi thought she was her.mujtaba@jhandeya@still_oppressed blud thinks shes her3132@still_oppressed blud thinks shes her https://t.co/MwNJpePpQNIndi Maulidar@indinding@still_oppressed I thought this is a satire but this is actually her?!137@still_oppressed I thought this is a satire but this is actually her?!richard wolf@_richardwolfNow that I know how Rupi Kaur reads her own poems I am done defending her work. If this is the intended cadence and rhythm, I am no longer willling to accept it. twitter.com/still_oppresse…keyvan@still_oppressedAirdropping this onto every phone on the plane before takeoff 1657Airdropping this onto every phone on the plane before takeoff https://t.co/2LcohCKancNow that I know how Rupi Kaur reads her own poems I am done defending her work. If this is the intended cadence and rhythm, I am no longer willling to accept it. twitter.com/still_oppresse…jj!@sorryimjj@still_oppressed first time i saw this i had never seen rupi kaur and thought this was someone parodying rupi kaur reading her own poetry until i saw the tik tok watermark and realized that IS rupi kaur9@still_oppressed first time i saw this i had never seen rupi kaur and thought this was someone parodying rupi kaur reading her own poetry until i saw the tik tok watermark and realized that IS rupi kaurjohner 🇦🇬@ratedpending@still_oppressed i'm sure she's a nice woman but "your fingers were dipped inside me" is such a viscerally vomit inducing execution of imagery that it turns me off from any of her future works73120@still_oppressed i'm sure she's a nice woman but "your fingers were dipped inside me" is such a viscerally vomit inducing execution of imagery that it turns me off from any of her future workshogshaker@hogshaker@still_oppressed Whole plane looking down at their inadequate fingers, knowing they’re wrong:9544@still_oppressed Whole plane looking down at their inadequate fingers, knowing they’re wrong: https://t.co/L9Z2NsnADcRich Homie-Wan Kenobi@Dr_Keltik@still_oppressed This is a stealth marketing campaign by Android32@still_oppressed This is a stealth marketing campaign by Androidjake | 72 days@hedgehogthomim confident i can be a writer after seeing this twitter.com/still_oppresse…keyvan@still_oppressedAirdropping this onto every phone on the plane before takeoff 314Airdropping this onto every phone on the plane before takeoff https://t.co/2LcohCKancim confident i can be a writer after seeing this twitter.com/still_oppresse…WADDiE! 🌟@maddiephour@still_oppressed genuinely want to know what she was thinking like what was the thought process when she posted this.141@still_oppressed genuinely want to know what she was thinking like what was the thought process when she posted this.sybil grimalkin@joblessthursdayimagine my shock finding out that this is rupi kaur reading her "poem" and not someone doing a parody twitter.com/still_oppresse…keyvan@still_oppressedAirdropping this onto every phone on the plane before takeoff 21420717199Airdropping this onto every phone on the plane before takeoff https://t.co/2LcohCKancimagine my shock finding out that this is rupi kaur reading her "poem" and not someone doing a parody twitter.com/still_oppresse…no name@pradaiceRupi kaur needs to be locked up for this video868628459Rupi kaur needs to be locked up for this video https://t.co/NzZvPVHjaXThe video of Rupi Kaur's dramatic reading of her poem seems to be from 2021. Back then, another Twitter user, @pradaice, shared the video, and it went viral, with the internet assembled to partake in a similar meme fest.Although the video has a TikTok watermark and was uploaded on the platform by the poet herself, Rupi seems to have deleted the clip from her TikTok feed.Rupi Kaur's rise to fame and re-publishing Milk and HoneyIn March 2015, Rupi Kaur posted a series of pictures on Instagram that contained menstrual blood stains on clothes and bed sheets. She was harassed over the photos by internet trolls, and the post was also twice removed from the platform for not complying with Instagram’s terms and conditions.Rupi criticized Instagram’s censorship as misogynistic and thus implied that the platform reaffirmed what she sought to condemn. Instagram sent her an apology and cited the incident as a mistaken removal. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostHowever, Rupi Kaur's response went viral, and she gained more followers, which subsequently led to her rising popularity as people started discovering her poetry. As she rose to prominence on social media, her book Milk and Honey was released again by Andrews McMeel Publishing.The book was an immediate success, sold around 11 million copies worldwide, and was translated into about 44 languages. View this post on Instagram Instagram Post“The Breaking,” which marks the third section of Rupi’s book Milk and Honey, is the longest in the collection. It comes after the section “The Loving,” towards the end of which the narrator says that although she has learned to experience positive feelings and love for her partner, their relationship is still far from perfect. Rather, they have more arguments than they should.In “The Breaking,” the narrator suffers from the agony of a painful breakup while detailing the feelings of loss followed by the loneliness that accompanies this experience.