Milk Tea with a Side of Democracy: How Memes are Brewing a Political Movement
Mary Grace Nimmer In April, offended Chinese citizens took to twitter to attack Thai celebrities whose tweets implied that Hong Kong and Taiwan were independent of China. Thai youth quickly defended the celebrities. Met with insults from Chinese citizens, who targeted topics such as the corruption of the Thai government, Thai youth responded with humor and memes. Moreover, they did not take offense to the Chinese’ accusations against the Thai government — they agreed with the