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For months, there has been a running social media tussle between Tagalogs and the Bisaya, with memes ranging from the outrageously clever to the downright funny. It is often not for the politically-correct, onion-skinned and super-sensitive types.

I’m not sure whether this is just a garden-variety expression of competing fandoms of traditional politics. But what I’m sure is that many who have traveled or migrated to and from both places, and have friends and family who are Tagalogs and Bisaya, are enjoying the double meanings, the cleverness, and the wicked humor of everything in this β€œTagalog vs.

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