In November last year, a Facebook account that appeared to belong to Channel 3 posted a status update that shook Thais to their core like a coup announcement. It said that Thong Neua Kao, a highly popular lakorn would be cancelled due to inappropriate content and replaced with a new show. The soap’s main protagonist is Lumyong — a very dysfunctional tramp (sorry, there’s no way to put it more subtly) with addictions to gambling and alcohol. She ends up dying of syphilis after having children with different men. The series was so damn popular that the current caretaker PM Yingluck Shinawatra, who was then PM, received backlash (especially from people who already don’t like her) for interrupting the lakorn’s finale with her brief announcement of the Internal Security Act.