The Memes to Vent Political Frustration

Here's the inconvenient truth about the defamation laws in PH

Thanks google.

A way to highlight an issue without coming across as a direct attack is not name dropping people involved to cause dishonor. Making jokes about the flood control project scandals without names are nonspecific but hits the right spots as people can eventually get motivated to research on their own.

In some way, political memes / satire, delivers the news without being obscured by a wall of text where people with short attention spans don't have the time to care.

Whenever I see political memes, I view it in the lens of how much freedom people can really express themselves in public. Trying to call out a public figure's fault attracts a law suit, even if true. But there has to be a means to vent out that frustration so people turn to memes, nonspecific enough to evade a law suit but direct enough to get the message across viewers.

History books will write about memes because if you want to know the zeitgeist, look at the memes published at that period.

Since PH, has a lot of political issues weekly, political meme facebook pages have a lot of content to run. Filipinos love humor and it's relatively easier to go viral for these pages because issues hits close to home and conversations can be taken in dinner tables.

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