‘It’s time for the Indian audience to stop…’: Gaurav slammed Taneja for promoting another brand with Shark Tank India

After not getting any deal for his brand BeastLife in Shark Tank India Season 4, YouTuber Gaurav Taneja aka Flying Beast is in the midst of another controversy. This time, to promote a brand other than BeastLife with Shark Tank India.

Taneja was seen promoting Rosier Foods, another brand known for making organic ghee using Vedic technology. Other popular products of the brand are oil, amlabrush, raw and natural honey as well as nut butter.

In an Instagram story posted by Rosier Foods, the influencer can be seen selling these products at a special 15 percent discount on Shark Tank. Needless to say, social media users were outraged by this promotional practice.

Some users even suggested that people should stop consuming the content of influencers like Gaurav Taneja. Others thought the move was hypocritical considering the YouTuber didn’t tell anything about Rosier Foods on the show but is now promoting it with Shark Tank.

“It’s time the Indian audience stops consuming the content of these so-called influencers and gamers and show them where they actually stand,” a user said.

“Such a poor job removing the Beast Life logo on the shirt (sic),” one user wrote.

“This is exactly why the Sharks won’t make any offers for this guy…..yet he is so shamelessly promoting the brand that he clearly refused to say a word about the shark tank show itself when asked,” a third user said.

Another user commented, “Such a shameful and shady man. He doesn’t want to share details of his ghee business on sti, but he uses sti logo to promote the same business. No wonder the sharks are rejecting his offer.”

One netizen said: “I tried ghee recently and it was bad. Totally a scam and what a cost to a person.”

According to BeastLife, Taneja failed to secure any deal on the show because the Sharks didn’t find the influencer’s responses compelling enough to offer any kind of investment.

He sought an investment of Rs 1 crore for 1 per cent equity in his company. When he and the brand’s CEO said they had clocked sales of Rs 1 crore within an hour of the launch, Vineeta Singh was quick to tell them it was because of his followers.