Why are jokes a possible war between two nations with such fun nuclear weapons?
The men used to go to battle. Now, they go to X and Instagram to share memes. If that offends or confuses you, maybe you are not as chronically online as some of us that we are following the climbing in tensions with India in the form of memes and jokes.
When the term ‘fifth generation’ was coined, its creators would never have imagined that they would include sarcastic memes and videos that make fun of the battle strategy of a country. But here we are in 2025, and as India threatens to attack Pakistan and cut his water supply in the face of the suspension of the Indo Water Treaty, the Pakistani are responding in the way we know better, with memes and jokes quite inanaries.
For those not initiated, this may sound like another round of jokes “tea was fantastic” to abhinandan, which now causes nothing more than a side eye or a grimace. On the contrary, these jokes are mockery of self -spring more in the style that a class clown obtains an rise to break your opponent in the way they know best, with such a self -critical humor, that is attributed to your opponent and deprives them of an ingenious return.
Ironically, jokes are not always aimed at the Indians, many of them make fun of Pakistan’s own problems, from the lack of water to the high taxes of PTA on the phones. In fact, most jokes are so ridiculous that many Indian Internet users can make little more than mock of how insertious the internet is Pakistani and will laugh. After all, if India cuts the Pakistan water supply, even Atif Aslam and Hania Aamir will be thirsty … but the Indians would not know now that the superstars have also been blocked.
Where the Meme Goest?
What is particularly surprising is the ingenuity of the jokes, from the young Pakistanis regretting the possible chapter that will be added to the Pak Study exam if the country goes to war to sneak from water from the other side of the border so that their favorite celebrity begins magically to work once they are outside the PTA team in the jurisdiction of the PTA of the thought of the thought of India that have to Draft Babar Azam for the PTA team. of him conquering Pakistan.
It is not that no one seems to believe that India can overcome our armed forces or even attack: these jokes are precursors of any real event. However, they make fun of the idea of a war, mocking in a way that only gene generation can.
They come in all forms, from images of sad kittens that beg to India that “they turn on the water again” so that they can complete their skin care routine to the videos of young Pakistani who run in the mountains as news of the “Captain Ajay Devgan, Major Akshay Kumar and General Hritik Roshan” get into the propagation of the country. Another favorite is the furious debate about how problematic it will be to say ‘J’ instead of ‘z’.
As the disturbed Indians move through the inanity of Pakistani humor, many have decided to join fun. While some offer water to their favorite Pakistani, others are planning secondary missions for Burns Road for the famous Kababs of Karachi during the ‘war’ or meetings with internet friends in Pakistani cities.
Everyone laughs at the idea of a war in a way that only generation Z can, a mocked generation incessantly for their failure in taking things seriously. But if there is one thing that seems to be taking a lot seriously, they are making fun of the suggestion that we can go to war.
It combines a failure in taking things seriously with a general feeling of disappointment and a tendency to use humor as an coping mechanism and you have the perfect recipe for memes.
A meme a day keeps war traffickers
Using memes in times of crisis is not new. They see what is thrown in Pakistan, their Internet users have often responded in the form of self -critical memes and jokes.
From losing Cricket matches to being threatened with the real war, the Pakistani are proud of their memes game, and make fun of the atrocious sense of all others. We have heard of the last one who laughs, but the Pakistani are teachers to laugh first. After all, if you laugh first, you don’t leave the other with many ammunition.
And we love to laugh, both of ourselves and others, and Meme Warfare is not new to us.
On February 14, 2019, 40 Indian paramilitary troops were killed in Pulwama in Kashmir occupied by India, and India directly blamed Pakistan’s shoulders. Pakistan hastened to deny the claim. However, despite denial, India retaliates when performing an air attack in Pakistan. Unfortunately for the Indians, they ended up destroying some trees instead of causing real damage. Even more unfortunate for them was the subsequent capture of the pilot of the Indian Air Force driver, Abhinandan Varthaman, whose plane was demolished after entering the Paquistani airspace. He was soon sent back, but not before receiving a cup of “fantastic” tea that caused an avalanche of memes that continue to this day.
The situation was really serious (the greatest escalation between two nuclear armed countries is not something to joke, but at that time, most jokes began after Abhinandan’s capture and when the danger of an absolute war was over.
But even the 2019 jokes could not have predicted how insertious Pakistani would have returned in 2025, joking about a war that could happen and the suspension of a treaty that is vital for the sustenance of millions of people in the country.
Therapy, one meme at the same time
This form of self -criticism is not exclusive to Pakistan, although the unbridled mockery of a war through an endless flood of self -critical memes could be.
According to reports, people have been using humor as an coping mechanism for decades and generation Z, as generation, is more depressed than previous generations. Studies have shown that today’s adolescents see anxiety and depression as important problems among their classmates, and many see their mental health as a source of stress.
This type of humor, the humor of the gallows, so to speak, comes at a time when Pakistani are going through an economic crisis to overcome everyone else. Electricity prices are high, when you get electricity. If you live in Karachi, water is a problem. It doesn’t matter where you live, gas is a problem. If you stay in Pakistan too long, you will get a considerable PTA tax bill to use your phone. At the same time, people find it difficult to get a job and there is a general feeling of insecurity in the country. Is it surprising then that Pakistani are fed up and turn to humor as an always reliable coping mechanism?
From adding comic music of video games to videos of people who make Parkour in containers placed to prevent protesters from entering Islamabad to almost constant jokes about the VPN, many young Pakistani are turning very serious problems in jokes, not because they do not see the seriousness of the problems, but because they do not seem to know how rather these major events that occur in the country and around the country.
They are disappointed and that is becoming even more evident in their jokes and memes.
Is this a healthy coping mechanism? Probably not. But it is a form of black humor that unites people in high stress environments and allows them to process difficult emotions. In general, that applies to medical professionals, journalists, law agents and sometimes even prisoners of war, who often use humor as a way to improve their mental health, but today, most Pakistanis live in a high stress environment that is sufficient to send their blood pressure regardless of their profession.
Children are going well
But there is something to say about the ability to recover and negative these young Pakistani to be blindly coerced in hating our neighbors. No number of vitriolic speeches or that have the war on the other side of the border seem to be able to penetrate the dark armor of Humour-Clazed that we are using. We are, indeed, the indifferent child in the back of the class that makes jokes, even sometimes when the situation does not require it, or the best fun friend in a 2000 film, always ready with fast phrases, brushing insults with a casual shoulder shrug.
As some Pakistani wonder if this recent climbing could result in a war, moving without thinking through Instagram and watching videos of people who make self -critical jokes about Indians who invade Pakistan and go directly after being buried in a mountain of debt and other problems, these jokes provide not only comic relief, but a sensation of calm.
There is no fear of traffic or calling violence here, just a peace of mind that everything will be fine, whatever comes. And if living in Pakistan has taught us anything, it does not matter what we are thrown, the Pakistani have a way of shrinking from shoulders, laughing and moving forward. And if that is not the Pakistani form, I don’t know what it is.
