UPDATE: The admin of Philippine Pie [R-18] posted a public apology where he or she openly admitted his or her sin for creating a meme using the face of a Yolanda Survivor just to make fun of it.
Here's the whole statement from the admin page:
UPDATE: The admin of Philippine Pie [R-18] posted a public apology where he or she openly admitted his or her sin for creating a meme using the face of a Yolanda Survivor just to make fun of it. Humihingi kami ng kapatawaran sapagkat kami ay nagkasala ng malaki, lalong lalo na sa lalaking pinost namin at sa kanyang pamilya na ginawan namin ng meme. Hindi po namin alam na yung larawang ginamit namin ay galing sa trahedyang yolanda. Sa Google lang po namin kinuha yun at di namin alam na magte-trending pala. Ang intensyon lang po namin ay mag paligaya ng tao pero kabaliktaran ang nangyare. Inuulit ko humihingi po ulit kami ng pasensya sa mga taong nasaktan at sa mga taong sumusubaybay ng pahinang ito. #FreeMurahinAngAdmin
Yesterday, a concerned netizen sent a message asking if we can make an article about this Yolanda Survivor's face used to create a funny meme and being laughed at.
According to our source person (who refused to identify his name in public for security purposes), this 'insensitive' meme was created by the admin of Philippine Pie [R-18].
As we can see, the agonizing face of the Yolanda Survivor was edited where texts added read as "Lord Kung Hindi Siya Para Sakin...Pwede Niyo Na Po Siyang Kunin." This was first uploaded yesterday and gathered various reactions and comments.
Here are some comments from the netizens who laughed at it:
And then social justice warriors came in to the rescue, asking to delete the post but no response from Philippine Pie's admin. They said the admin who created the meme and those who laughed at it had no respect to that (Yolanda Survivor) guy "who loses almost everything."
Some people say that they should have just grabbed some faces from the movies so that they would not hurt the feelings of others especially when they just experienced a typhoon like Yolanda.
After concerned netizens confronted the 'insensitive' comments, some of them apologized and even deleted their own not-so-good comments:
Before writing this post, we asked our resource person for the reliability of the report and he/she gave us a link to Anderson Cooper's report.
It was a video report originally uploaded to AC360 CNN website entitled as "Finding Strength after the storm" where the face of a man filled with tears was screenshot only to create a funny meme. This was re-uploaded to YouTube back in November 2013.
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