Victory Virality
While campaigns, manifestos and coalition memes were on the spotlight till the result day, from May 4, the victory of TVK has taken the centre stage — trolling as well as praising. Celebrating the two-year-old party leader, Vijay, a satirical meme paralleling the scene from a Hollywood series Sex Education, where a bunch of high school girls start saying “It’s my Vijay-na” (rephrased from vagina) took over the social media feeds just after the party’s success.
Prabu, the admin of @gammunu_irra page on Instagram, says, “The parties allied with the DMK extended their support to the current ruling party (TVK), thereby helping them demonstrate their legislative majority. Consequently, I posted a piece suggesting that — given this situation — the current administration essentially functions as a government formed with the backing of the DMK and captioned it: ‘You can’t criticize the DMK hereafter; otherwise, they might withdraw their support.’ That particular post has surpassed 5,00,000 views.” Concurring, @patchwork._memes’s admin also adds that mostly debates, fan wars, and opinion sharing happen in comments and sometimes even opposite supporters enjoy the same meme differently.