So why is everyone changing their profile pics to oldskool IC pictures?

Sometime last week, we started seeing these old IC photos pop up on our News Feed.

1 Woei Hern IC
yes this is the guy who made those racist ads. Inidia!
Lydia Kwan - IC
our cutie pie Asst Editor

Apparently when you LIKE or COMMENT on one of the pictures, you get one of these messages that, obviously, tells you to do the same thing lor, and people seem to love posting old ridiculous one. Cue virality.

Facebook IC meme

So of course, in this day and age, and smack in between Merdeka and Malaysia Day, the first thing on our minds was…

 

Haiya… another unity campaign from an Ad Agency?

Well, not really. But kinda.

So apparently, it started off at Malaysia’s currently most talked about agency, Naga DDB. Yes, the same guys that brought you that epic NSFW video last week. And it was started by its Executive Creative Director, Tim Koomsorn,

Except that he didn’t start it. His Thai homeys did.

ID chanllenge chak cilisos.my Cilisos Sdn. Bhd. Mail

To be honest, we have no idea how it started over there. If you do, please let us know by email or via the comments below cos we’re super curious. Here’s a bunch of our neighbours outmeme-ing us. We love those squiggly lines

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Thanks to Tim for helping us get these!

Aw man… Malaysia copy again?

Who care UGAIZ!?!?!? It’s so nice for our Thai brothers and sisters to drop this sweet little viral bombshell on us in time for Malaysia Day. So why is it being shared? Simple.

1. It’s Malaysia Day and everyone feels like making some sorta Muhibbah statement and

2. What better way to do that than to laugh at our older selves? Yes, we love seeing old bad photos of people.

Like mine -_-

chak old ic

 

And our beloved CILISOS.

CILISOS IC

So go on, spread the love UGAIZ! If you share or comment on this, we WILL message you.

Erm… first 300 la maybe.

Oh btw, if you want to find out more about how our MYKAD stacks up to 7 other Identity Cards around the world, check out this article we wrote.

 

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Chak is the editor-in-chief of CILISOS, and an imposing mass of muscle and good looks. He loves all forms of writing, especially profile information in faux third-person.