“…Satire and parody become currency in this space, especially in authoritarian regimes (Mina, 2014), where ambiguity was (and still is) the only way to dodge censorship executed by the gatekeepers of the public. Thus, memes are not only acts of individual expression, they are also acts of subversive speech in a “risky game where parody accounts, mirror websites, fake usernames, and proxy servers allow participants to slip under the watchful radar of state agencies, that continue to finesse their skills at controlling and stifling online speech” (Kumar and Combe, 2015: 212). Participation and collaboration are necessary prerequisites for the emergence and virility of memes, but the cost of playing the game is relatively small.…”