In a social media post, Advisor and filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki reflected on the public's emotional response to the uprising. “Rickshaw drivers shouted, ‘We are free!’ Young people claimed it as their Victory Day. Hundreds of people proclaimed their liberation. No one coached them—yet they knew they had been under oppression and felt the meaning of freedom,” Farooki wrote. He criticized certain intellectual elites for failing to grasp what the masses inherently understood: “Why couldn’t some PhDs comprehend what the common people did? Why does their ‘academic mind’ fail to understand the concept of a ‘second independence’?” Farooki urged skeptics to listen to the joyful chants of the people on that day. “They were speaking against enforced disappearances, killings, and the humiliation of living in their own country without freedom. Underneath it all beat the name Abrar Fahad,” he wrote. He ended his post with a message of unity and defiance: "Today we began the day with ‘You failed to kill Abrar Fahad.’ All day long, Abrar will be with us at Manik Miah Avenue—along with thousands of martyrs and the joy of liberation from oppression. Listen well, establishment—we are many."