Legal risk, social pressure, and political climate may limit space for discussion but not the topics of discussion themselves. This article explores the ways Thai people consider safe enough to use for expressing their opinions on social media. Parody and sarcasm fan pages on political issues become popular on Thai Facebook since at least around 2012. Many of these fan pages are heavily graphic-based, which may highlight on what kinds of content that have more ability to spread on a social network site. Some of them like “Manee Mee Share” creates original drawing based on characters from standard primary text books in the 90s, while others like “Talamae Pop-Culture” rely on ‘image macro’ using same image for different messages.

 

I argue that ‘meme literacy’, which include sense of humor, language competency to pun things up, and ability to communicate with memes, allows sensitive issues to be discussed and shared further. Tools like ‘meme generator’ lower the barrier for one to participate in this graphic-based conversation. Observing what are intentionally omitted from these graphics and conversation also illuminates the real limits of freedom of expression in Thailand, and observing the conversation around what is omitted may allow us to see what people think about the unspeakable.