Memes

November 17, 2025 – December 7, 2025

This week’s memes

Meme 1:

Appachchi (meaning “father”, a reference to Mahinda Rajapaksa) when he sees the amount of aid being received these days.. 

Meme 2:

Only one year has passed and even those who didn’t vote have started to praise [you], comrade

Meme 3:

Top: The jeppas (JVP supporters), dobis (“laundryworkers”; disparaging reference to those who indiscriminately defend the government), and Harini and the government who have been utterly humiliated before the public 

Bottom: Anura who is coming to parliament 

Meme 4:

Top: Before a disaster 

Middle: During a disaster 

Bottom: After a disaster 

Meme 5:

Friends who didn’t abandon [us] in times of sorrow 

Meme 6:

Top: Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Is it the leaf that the caterpillar eats? 

Bottom: Dilith Jayaweera: Did it collapse along with the walls? 

Context: While talking to a victim of a landslide, Sarvajana Balaya Leader Dilith Jayaweera asked if their house collapsed along with the walls. The remark was ridiculed on social media and compared to a similar comment made by former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa when talking to farmers facing crop damage.  

Meme 7:

[The damage] was confirmed day before yesterday, filled and submitted the form yesterday and received [the compensation] today. That’s how things should be. Great! 

Meme 8:

They have left their mounds

Context: These actors are widely seen within the Tamil discourse as having allegedly fuelled anti-minority sentiments in the past.

Meme 9:

My son, in case you have any issues, open this box and see

Meme 9:

There is no harm done to the [Trincomalee] Buddha statue do to the storm, is there? – Gnanasara Thera