Recently, a picture of former American president Barack Obama sporting a salt and pepper beard has gone viral, and has created enough online ruckus, following which the netizens of America have began demanding him to sport a beard in reality. This image was created by Shade room, who had also created bearded images of many other celebrities like Jay Z.
However, People have taken the image seriously, and are even willing to vote for a bearded Barack Obama. One of the twitter users had posted "If only this was real", as a caption to the bearded picture of Obama. Another twitter user had posted to give the creator of the photo shopped image of Obama with Beard, a Pulitzer award. Few other twitter users had also posted that the need of the moment was to begin an online petition, appealing to the former president Barack Obama to grow a beard.
While some even tagged Michelle Obama and intimated her to be proud of her husband showing off his bearded looks. In this way, with just a photoshopped image, Obama Beard became the most popular and trending hashtag of twitter for a brief period.