Society Talk

the Cockroach movement's meme game deserves its own GONOM post

Being careful here because the actual issues are serious (exam leaks, students who died, and now two leaders who spent a week in Tihar). But the movement literally started as an online joke and turned a judge's insult into a party name, then hit 22 million Instagram followers in two weeks back in May.

Satire as a protest tool is fascinating to me. It's harder to dismiss a movement that's laughing at you. Does it help them or make it easier for critics to call them unserious? Discuss, and post your favourite examples of satire movements from your own country.