Last month on this date, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his battle against black money on national television by demonetising, in one fell swoop, all Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes. Life as they knew it changed for Indians all over the country as they went scurrying around in confusion to exchange their old Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes. As a month passed since then, a lot has been said and done on the issue, but unfortunately, the situation still remains same in many parts of the country.
Even in all this, the select few people who have access to the internet have been able to joke about their situation, dedicated and hard-working meme makers and a few witty good samaritans who shared them, supplied netizens with an abundant quantity of jokes and trolls to keep themselves entertained and forget the woes of demonetisation even as they readjusted to the new way of life using online banking and plastic money.
To mark one month since demonetisation, here's a carefully curated collection of the best memes and tweets that sum up the internet-savvy citizens' minds since the move. Mitron, here it is, for your viewing pleasure - 12 memes that sum up demonetisation.
1. Football teams, are you listening?
2. Not sure what was more 'mushkil', the actual movie or the ATM queues.
3. Could there be a better meme on this?
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4. Phew, watch out ladies, there's too much swag in this one!
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5. The internet went wild when someone wrote 'Sonam Gupta bewafa hai' (Sonam Gupta is disloyal) on one of the new Rs. 2000 notes. It certainly didn't take long for wild conspiracy theories to shoot up.
6. Who can forget Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account getting hacked?
7. People's social skills were greatly tested during this phase.
8. This is how you win the internet, people.
9. ...he actually nailed it.
10. And that's how karma works, ladies and gentlemen.
11. Twitter might just have more parody accounts than actual users.
12. Rs. 100 note: I would like to thank Modi ji for this incredible opportunity to let me help the society.
Memes or no memes, demonetisation has certainly affected all of us. Until the situation gets better, lets hope the meme mills keep running.