$Mao

Miss Mao is meme gold: the Gao Brothers’ sculptures show Mao Zedong with big tits and a long Pinocchio nose. One glance and you get the joke, turning China’s most sacred “hero” into a ridiculous cartoon. That visual shock makes it super shareable. Same trick as Winnie the Pooh memes that made Xi Jinping look like a chubby bear (China banned them, so they went viral worldwide) or Pussy Riot’s punk stunt mocking Putin (Russia jailed them, media exploded). When the government freaks out, bans it, or locks up the artist, the joke gets even bigger. That’s the effect: trying to hide something just m