The Foreign Ministry called for 'sobriety and restraint', while politicians sought to press on with the Philippines' claims.īut for the ordinary Filipino keyboard warrior, there was humour to be mined.Īmong the most popular memes, written mostly in Tagalog, that sprouted overnight on Twitter and Facebook: On Tuesday, a five-man arbitral tribunal created by the Permanent Court of Arbitration dismissed China's claim to 'historic rights' over two-thirds of the 3.5 million sq km South China Sea as without legal basis. 'Hugot' is a Tagalog slang that means 'to draw emotions from deep within'. The hashtag refers to the 'West Philippine Sea' - designation here of the waters in the South China Sea the Philippines claims is part of its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Posts tagged as #WPSHugot was the fifth most trending topic on Twitter. Overnight, Filipinos flooded social media with sappy, corny love notes, inspired by the ruling. I couldn’t make such a video.MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte may have said he does not want to 'taunt' Beijing or 'flaunt' a ruling from an international tribunal that gave the Philippines a sweeping victory in its challenge of China's claims to the South China Sea.īut he did not say Filipinos cannot have a good laugh out of it. The same thing probably won’t work for you, you have to find your own style.ĭon’t get discourages, keep it up.

He makes those funny by becoming the very British captain “Jingleton Smythe” or whatever the name is, who is a caricature of a British naval officer.

Jingles won that competition for a reason. I do like Jingles videos, for example the funny ones he made for “The Ring”. Genuinely funny is quite difficult, actually. I prefer a natural voice with an accent to any computer voice. Personally I also dislike the computer voice videos. Personally I don’t like the twisting/shaking of the picture.

Actually, really well done and hard to believe this was the first video you made.īut, is this meant to be funny or a Yamato tutorial? It looks like a bit of both.

Funny world of warships memes