Chennai: A tweet from 2016 saying Oscar award winner Will Smith should punch Chris Rock on his face has stunned netizens a day after the incident made global headlines.

During the Academy Awards ceremony, Smith slapped Rock on stage after the latter cracked a joke about the Hollywood star's wife Jada Pinkett-Smith. The joke was in reference to Pinkett-Smith's shaved head because of autoimmune disorder alopecia but it apparently didn't go down well with Smith, who went up to the stage and slapped Rock. The volatile exchange began innocuously enough. Rock, 57, decided to land a joke on Pinkett-Smith before announcing the best documentary feature winner.

He said Pinkett-Smith could star in "G.I. Jane 2".

Pinkett-Smith, who was seen rolling her eyes at the joke, currently sports a bald look due to alopecia, an autoimmune disorder. Actor Demi Moore had famously shaved her head when she starred in 1997 action-drama "G.I. Jane".

With memes and criticism flooding social media platforms since yesterday, a tweet from 2016 has attracted eyes of people now.

Check the tweet here:

Minutes later, the 53-year-old actor bagged the best actor Oscar for his role in King Richard , making him the cynosure of attention good and bad at the 94th Academy Awards.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has reacted to the infamous slapgate incident involving actors Will Smith and Chris Rock during the Oscars ceremony, saying that it does not support "violence of any form".

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