Thailand wasted no time when comments were mysteriously enabled on Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha’s official Facebook page, seizing those 12 hours of unfettered venting to rant, rage, and condemn the man who’s led the country since seizing power eight years ago.
From late Monday night until about 11am, a slew of comments – heavy on expletives, memes, and utter randomness – were posted at an increasingly rapid rate until, as inexplicably as it happened, the window was closed.
The 56,000 comments left before the fun ended ranged from wordy putdowns (“It’s time to get out, aren’t you ashamed with such a little brain? You shouldn’t be a leader, you aren’t qualified for any single thing. You are only a burden to this country.”) to the far more concise “Get out!”
Proving brevity may not be the exclusive domain of wit, innumerable messages consisted solely of “K,” presumably short for kuay (“dick”).
Other animated images cataloged the greatest hits of Prayuth lulz, from scowling at fruit to failing to do the limbo.
Before COVID-19, anyone could author comments on Prayuth’s page. Then came May 2021, when the Great Returner of Happiness came under fire for his mishandling of the pandemic, and the page of the famously thin-skinned military man no longer accepted them.
Earlier this year, Prayuth’s public approval rating sank to a record low of 16% in a poll by NIDA, which does not adequately disclose its methods and has been accused of manipulation in the past.
