This meme is a satirical commentary on how Western media (mainly in North America and Western Europe) is perceived to respond unevenly to tragedies around the world.
Here’s what the map and colours mean:
🟩 Green (North America, Western Europe, Australia and Israel): “24 hr coverage, celebrity songs, flag filters, lit up monuments.”
This suggests that when a tragedy happens in these regions, Western media gives it massive coverage and public sympathy (e.g., social media filters, global landmarks lit up in solidarity).
🟨 Yellow (Most of Asia, Latin America): “Nobody wants to be sad all day.”
Suggests selective or brief coverage, the media acknowledges the event but quickly moves on, assuming audiences prefer not to dwell on it.
🟫 Brown (Middle East, parts of North Africa): “A hopeless situation, just pray.”
Implies that when crises happen in these areas, Western media treats them as expected or unsolvable, often invoking pity but not much practical engagement.
⬛ Black (Sub-Saharan Africa): “Literally do not care.”
Suggests that tragedies in Africa often receive very little or no coverage in Western outlets, despite potentially large-scale suffering.
Overall message:
The meme criticizes perceived bias and selectivity in Western media’s empathy and attention, that certain countries’ tragedies are treated as global crises, while others are ignored or trivialized.
What do you think?
rockymountains says
Some country looks like a single one, but it is “Countries Alliance” , just like India. The Five Eyes Alliance lool like five countries, but they are actual a single one .
Y.D. Robinson says
Just wondering whether the media in Argentina, Uruguay, southern Brazil, and Chile, plus the white media in South Africa, react more similarly to (respectively) the media in Iberia/Italy and the Anglosphere than to (respectively) the media in rest of Latin America and in Black Africa?
Because I consider the Southern Cone and white South Africa to be outposts of the West at the very least culturally.
Samo says
I totally disagree with the idea you are suggesting. The “response to a tragedy” largely depends on LOCATION of the tragedy.
There are other “funny” (or maybe sad) maps, which show how (western) media strongly responds to tragedies in the west (Europe, USA, but also Israel), yet it doesn’t respond much to tragedies in Africa and Asia.
So… at least be fair when judging African, Asian and South American media.