Meme humor helps Brazilian cope

SAO PAULO: Political corruption, economic crisis, rampant crime - the headlines in Brazil are grim, so locals have taken to online memes that often go viral to relieve the stress. A flurry of memes - funny images or video coupled with text that are spread online - making light of the country’s bleak situation have taken the internet by storm in a country that has the world’s second largest number of Facebook users. One popular meme has tourists taking pictures next to a leaning Tower of Pisa with the face of the deeply unpopular president Michel Temer on it.