Delhi's Toxic Air Inspires Viral "Oxygen Mask Wedding" Video as Residents Turn to Satire

New Delhi residents are turning to humor as they cope with the city's hazardous air pollution levels, creating viral content that blends satire with their daily struggles.

A particularly popular "wedding with oxygen masks" video has captured widespread attention across social media platforms, showcasing a couple's romantic moments while both wear respiratory protection devices.

This creative production subverts traditional wedding video tropes - instead of romantic flower showers, the groom tosses medicine strips toward his bride. Rather than posing in picturesque locations, their wedding portraits feature a makeshift hospital setting complete with oxygen cylinders.

The video reaches its climax with the bride performing CPR on her gasping groom before they pose together with intertwined hands and oxygen masks firmly in place - a stark visual commentary suggesting that in Delhi's current environment, even love requires respiratory support.

Social media platforms are flooded with similar satirical content addressing the pollution crisis. On X (formerly Twitter), one viral meme depicts Superman hospitalized with an oxygen mask after briefly flying through Delhi's air.

Instagram users have created reels featuring songs from the film 'Delhi-6' with captions humorously twisting common Delhi phrases to reflect the smog situation: "There's so much pollution in Delhi that people are asking, 'Do you know where my father is?'"

Amid discussions about potentially renaming Delhi as Indraprastha, one social media user quipped that such a change would "send pollution and crime back to the 14th century."

The intersection of politics and pollution has become another target for satirists, with mock campaign posters declaring "This time, over 1000 AQI." Another widely-shared meme shows a protester with a simple message: "I miss breathing."

Since Diwali celebrations, the national capital's air quality has remained consistently problematic, fluctuating between "poor" and "very poor" categories according to official measurements, occasionally deteriorating to "severe" levels.

According to Central Pollution Control Board standards, air quality is categorized as: 0-50 AQI 'good', 51-100 'satisfactory', 101-200 'moderate', 201-300 'poor', 301-400 'very poor', and 401-500 'severe'.