Gandhi Memes: Fake Gandhi Quotes That Got Viral As Comments

Gandhi memes or fake Gandhi quotes are a series of dialogues used as parodies to replace the real Mahatma Gandhi quotes. It is usually a statement, question, comment, famous dialogue, or an expression that is edited on a picture of Mahatma Gandhi to mock it as if it was said by him in his days. The context ranges from disapproval to mocking a situation, usually to create intentional comedy and prove one’s point in any given matter.

Origin

The first idea to replace existing Gandhi quotes with a wittier line appeared on Twitter on 1st Oct 2017. Since then, several meme-makers have shown their creativity and come up with humorous one-liner fake quotes.

The first fake Gandhi quote was uploaded by a Twitter user called That LOL Buddhu‏ @lolbuddhu. He shared a pic that tweaked Gandhi’s quote ‘ An eye for an eye will make the world go blind’ to’…’ demand for more Ray bans‘.

Spread on Twitter

The same day, another Twitter user Garima Verma‏ @garima2611 came up with a new fake quote with the caption “Truth is God and truth overrides all our plans.” Truth be told! #ModernDayGandhiQuotes #GandhiJayanti.

Here, the goal was to prove that whenever you get too excited about a plan and exaggerate about it in front of your friends, it ends up being canceled. Just like the Goa plan that is made almost every year by numerous groups but ends up getting canceled because of any reason.

Another Twitter user Virat Chaudhary‏ @_imVirat used a new fake Mahatma Gandhi quote while replying to another user called @Ra_bies on 1st Oct 2017 with the caption ‘#ModernDayGandhiQuotes‘.

Following the fake Gandhi quote trend, a user शांत्यां विरम‏ @Binakahelunga also uploaded a quote which was more like a straightforward statement that those who watch shows like ‘Big Boss’ are dumb. (chutiya) This was a majorly propagated idea by Non-Big boss fans. The idea was that the show is utter bullshit and those who watch the show, also belong to the same category of chutiya(s).

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Spread of Fake Gandhi quotes

Fake Gandhi quotes began circulating on various social media platforms in 2018. More than generally sharing it as a post on social media, this meme got popularity as a comment response on any post.

9gag also uploaded a fake Gandhi quote on 29th March 2018. The caption was, Dirty Peasant: “You can’t just attribute fake quotes to people and call yourself an intellectual.” Me, an intellectual:

Spread on Facebook

Another fake Mahatma Gandhi quote was uploaded by a Facebook page DIRTY MINDS, which has over 840 K followers and likes. The quote was a simple text ‘Nice pic dear’. This comment is used mostly by the guys who are poor at good pick-up lines. Thus, the best thing that they come up with to interact with a woman is commenting on her display picture.

This picture was uploaded on 8th December 2019. It went on to receive 2.3 k likes along with 76 comments and 858 shares.

Following the trend of Mahatma Gandhi’s fake quotes, a Facebook page by the name Mahatma Gandhi memes @LikeMGM was created on 8th January 2019 that features memes and jokes related to Mahatma Gandhi.

Another Facebook page called Mahatma Gandhi Memes was created on 17th January 2019 which has over 1076 likes and followers to date. This page just uses various fake quotes and dialogues on the cliched image of Mahatma Gandhi in various contexts.

Context of use

By the end of January 2019, fake Gandhi quotes had become evident and widely used by highly active internet users. People started adding random comments, trending hashtags, and cool statements to generate fake Gandhi quotes.

Some of the fake quotes also had famous dialogues from recently released movies like gully boy.

Additionally, some used fake Gandhi quotes to justify their views against Pakistan. Following the #PKMKB trend, people made hate memes against Pakistan. It is also a viral Indian meme trend.

Mahatma Gandhi fake app

The trend of using fake Mahatma Gandhi quotes had sparked to such an extent that a famous digital publication house The Quint @quintillion launched an app with the caption, “Gandhiji is online and available to chat, even on Gandhi Jayanti. Yes, here’s a fun chat box where you can talk to M K Gandhi. He cracks some great jokes too!”

This digital platform has over 6.6M followers and as a tribute to the trending fake Gandhi quotes, they launched an app on 2nd October 2018. This app allows you to talk to a fake Gandhi automation which gives you hilarious responses to scripted questions.

A fake Gandhi quote was uploaded on YouTube by the channel Text2Meme on Oct 20, 2018. The video was a compilation video of PewDiePie Vs T-Series memes. It used a fake Mahatma Gandhi quote that said, “T-series is gay-fam”.