M’sian Netizens Are Photoshopping Emily In Different Parts Of Malaysia & It’s Hilarious

By Charmaine Shaharin  •  in News
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(Source: The Jakarta Post)

This month of October has brought us a lot of amazing shows on Netflix, especially American drama-comedy series, Emily In Paris. The show revolves around a Chicago marketing executive, Emily Cooper who lands an unexpected job opportunity in Paris where she discovers love but also learns how to juggle her new life there.

The show has gained much popularity in Malaysia after many netizens on social media especially Twitter have decided to make several parodies of it by photoshopping Emily’s picture and placing it in a more local environment.

One example can be seen in Twitter user @IzzRaifHarz, where he photoshops Emily in Perlis. In the tweet, Emily is seen photoshopped in several landmarks in Perlis such as eating at Nasi Kandar Yasmeen Arau, taking a selfie at the Padang Besar morning market, taking pictures of Perlis’s famous Satay fish stall, Lokchin and lastly eating with her friend at Ikan Bakar Kola. 

The tweet has gone viral with 17.4k retweets and 24.9k likes, but most of all, it has influenced many other people all over Malaysia to hop on the trend and photoshop Emily in their vicinity.

Emily in Ampang is another example, where she is seen taking a selfie with one of Ampang’s best landmarks which it’s highly long and horrendous traffic jam heading towards Jalan Ampang uploaded by Twitter user @dzulmuazzem. Twitter user  @sortahari took a jab at the meme with their depiction of her in Klang.

In this particular tweet by Twitter user @ijaicool featuring Emily in Bangi, the replies contain a long thread of pictures of Emily in various places beside landmarks such as Tealive, Sunway Pyramid and local beaches.

Relating to current water disruption problems right now, Twitter user @strbwerry had also shared a meme of Emily in Selangor taking a picture of people lining up for the Air Selangor truck.

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