Meme humor helps Brazilians cope with grim times

SAO PAULO: Political corruption, economic crisis, rampant crime -- the headlines in Brazil are grim, so locals have taken to online memes that often go viral to relieve the stress.

A flurry of memes -- funny images or video coupled with text that are spread online -- making light of the country’s bleak situation have taken the internet by storm in a country that has the world’s second largest number of Facebook users.