BANGKOK — Despite securing key border positions in last week’s physical conflict, Thai forces suffered a devastating defeat Monday on the internet front, as Cambodian operatives overran nationalist Facebook pages and ratioed top influencers into silence. “We secured our borders, but we forgot to provide reinforcements to the meme war flank,” said Lt Gen Boonsin Padklang sadly, moments before his Twitter Livestream was flooded with clown emojis and photoshopped images of him wearing a Khmer army uniform. Under siege from comment shelling, major Thai streamer defenses on TikTok collapsed, with many influencers signaling complete surrender by abandoning posts mid-reply after Cambodian users launched a meme blitzkrieg featuring animated historical gifs of the Khmer Empire seizing territory and eclipsing even the greatest extent of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, all set to melancholic Thai pop. One Lopburi man reported that a photo of his cat, posted to r/ThaiPussy, was instantly hit with 4,000 downvotes and dozens of comments saying, “Your cat would rather be in Vietnam.” In response to the losses, Parliament approved a 300 million baht emergency meme stimulus to rush morale-boosting content to whatever remained of their frontline content creators still managing to upload from the trenches. Reddit moderators confirmed psychological warfare tactics included tagging Thai users for wellness checks, spamming fabricated treaties claiming Thailand had ceded Koh Kood, and simply commenting “WHERE” under every pro-Thai post. At press time, Boonsin uploaded a video meant to boost morale titled “We’re Still Funny,” which was immediately flagged for misinformation.
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