With this year's haze hitting a 16-year high, some Malaysian netizens are taking to humour to help them cope with their frustrations.
A modified photograph has been making its rounds in social media websites like Facebook, Twitter and QQ showing a smoggy stretch of the Damansara-Puchong Expressway (LDP) and what appears to be a tentacled creature partially obscured in the background.
One of the captions that accompanied the photograph reads, "Oh crap, so it actually isn't Indonesia's fault," in an allusion to the post-apocalyptic alien-invasion genre that's currently popular in cinemas as well as television.
The owner of the Facebook account who wrote the caption told Malaysia Chronicle that he decided to use this caption as an back-handed slap to the many racist and xenophobic comments that have arisen as a result of the haze, not just in private comments but also in both the mainstream and online media.
"If we really need to find a bogeyman to blame for the haze, I think its probably better to have a 'real' bogeyman in the form of a fictional alien lifeform to blame," he said.
A variation of the modified photograph appeared later during the day with a figure of the fictional Japanese hero, Ultraman, fighting the creature.
Some netizens have jokingly suggested that since the Malaysian government isn't doing much to combat the haze, it was just as well that Ultraman had come to save the day.
It remains to be seen if such tongue-in-cheek jibes at the prevailing mainstream narrative would run afoul of any laws meant to protect the "dignity" of certain classes of opinions.
Malaysia Chronicle
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