Memes

March 9, 2026 – March 22, 2026

This week’s memes

(The memes published by MPA are presented as objects of analysis and documentation. Their inclusion does not imply endorsement of the views or positions expressed within them, but serves to examine how such narratives circulate in the public sphere.)

Meme 1:

Baiyas (SLPP supporters) upon learning that fuel prices have gone up: “May it increase some more”

Meme 2:

We do not know of any world outside of Sri Lanka. No matter what is happening in the world, it is Anura’s [Kumara Dissanayake] fault that the price of oil is going up

Meme 3:

Anura Kumara [Dissanayake] as the Sinhala [and Tamil] New Year approaches.

Top Left: January; top right: February; bottom left: March; bottom right: April

Meme 4:

Although it is because the US attacked Iran that we have to pump fuel using the QR method today, there are baiyas (SLPP supporters) who have forgotten that it was because the country went bankrupt after the Rajapaksas attacked Sri Lanka that we had to use the QR method to pump fuel then.

Meme 5:

Sri Lanka next year at the same time

Middle: We never voted for them, you are the ones who did so

Left: We did not vote for them either; these ones are the ones who did so

Right: We never voted for them

Meme 6:

Don’t know where the old owner is

Meme 7:

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