He also had to face judgment from netizens, who leapt to the well-loved Sammi’s defense. Other than lobbing harsh criticism at him, some folks and even government bodies and major companies in Hong Kong also took the opportunity to spoof and meme the cheating scandal. If Andy can’t live down his wrongdoing, whatever that’s online is worse — we all know everything on the Internet, including memes, lasts forever.

Here are some of the most savage memes and parodies so far:

Who knew that an infidelity scandal could be turned into a moral lesson for anti-corruption? In a thinly-veiled jab on Facebook, Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) reminds people that digital devices are keeping record of their dastardly deeds: “Don't think nobody knows what you’re doing just because it’s dark. Digital footprints and cameras are everywhere. It's not hard to find evidence for corruption. It's not easy to get away with it.” (Photo: ICAC’s Facebook)

Hong Kong’s major bus company, KMB, jumped on the bus, er, we mean bandwagon with this public service announcement, telling commuters not to ‘cheat’ and worm their way around the public buses’ no eating and drinking rule by consuming discreetly (which, in Chinese, is also an euphemism for adultery). The cartoon meme also depicted two rats sitting on a bus and wearing a white cap and black face mask, which was exactly what Andy and Jacqueline donned during their fateful taxi ride. Shots fired, we say. (Photo: KMB’s Facebook)

Chocolate maker Almond Roca posted an etiquette notice to remind everyone not to secretly eat in taxis as “taxi drivers are very vigilant about catching snacking offenders”. We’re not sure which is funnier: that an Almond Roca-fied Jacqueline is tempting Andy with another piece of snack-sized Almond Roca (is cannibalism a thang here too?), or that one of the brand’s hashtags include “Almond Roca is delicious, but please control yourselves”.

Chinese mobile phone maker Huawei’s P30 Pro phone recently went viral for its camera’s qualities, and it seems that its superzoom function can be used to, er, catch cheaters too. This meme, which calls out Andy and Jacqueline for lying low in their seats during the taxi ride, states: “Don’t assume I can’t snap your photo just ’cos you’re hiding in your car”. It compares a stock photo of an ordinary Hong Kong taxi on the left with the P30 Pro’s ‘superzoomed photo’ on the right… of a screengrab of the adulterous couple locked in a passionate embrace. (Photo: @rojaklah_my)

There are ads in Hong Kong of Sammi Cheng shilling a blueberry supplement that’s apparently good for your eyes, which has a new ironic meaning when news of Andy’s cheating broke. The meme advises: “If you take enough of this supplement, you can see your husband [for who he is] more clearly.” Burn. (Photo: @oneministorage)

Andy has a 2001 hit called ‘Rotten Mud’, and its lyrics got parodied in this meme to make fun of Andy’s snivelling during his press conference (“I won’t forgive! A broken person!”). It’s also appropriately illustrated with a muddy, foul Pokémon called Muk. (Photo: @girlnineup)

In a reference to the face mask that Jacqueline wore in the taxi, this meme goes: “A face mask can prevent the spreading of viruses, but it can’t block amorous advances.” We reckon Andy’s gonna need a chastity belt for that. (Photo: @drcareai)

This spoof paints an exaggerated picture of the epic showdowns between the two couples embroiled in this drama. A thought bubble pointing to Jacqueline goes: “Shall we go to your house or mine?”, to which Andy replied: “To your place, of course. My wife is rehearsing for her concert at home.” Meanwhile, Sammi ‘counters’: “I’m a Christian, don’t lie to me~” while a shocked Kenneth Ma simply ‘utters’: “What the [expletive].” (Photo: @fanpiece.hk)

Also heavily parodied: this screengrab of a shocked Kenneth Ma from a show. Poor dude.

The juicy affair is so widely discussed in Hong Kong that some Hong Kongers came up with WhatsApp stickers to spice up their chats, including Kenneth as a green hat-wearing Luigi (‘wearing a green hat’ means being cuckolded in Chinese slang), and a gleeful Jacqueline with the line: “I’m happy seducing other people’s husbands, as long as Sammi doesn’t find out.” Oof.

Kenneth Ma could benefit from some better foresight (his mother had reportedly warned him about dating Jacqueline when they first got together, as she disliked the actress' apparently materialistic ways). So it's especially apt that this optician in Malaysia is offering discounts for their customers in support of Kenneth, and here's the discount scheme: "Because we sympathise with Kenneth Ma, all customers with the surname 'Ma' get 30% off. Customers with the name Guo Ming (Kenneth's Chinese name) get 40% off. If you look like Kenneth Ma, you get 50% off. But those who look like Andy Hui get their bones broken (a pun on the Chinese phrase for getting your bones broken, and the word for 'discount'). So we guess being Kenneth Ma ain't all that bad now? 

A screengrab of Kenneth Ma playing a taxi driver in the 2017 supernatural comedy The Exorcist's Meter – he’s currently filming the sequel to this hit serial – is ironically ripe for a meme now. "Do you think dashboard cameras only film what's in front [and not the backseat]?" goes the caption. Did we mention that his taxi driver character vanquishes demons? (Photo: Armchair TV Channel)

Kenneth Ma's Chinese name is Ma Guo Ming. The creative folks at travel service provider Kkday have truncated it to "ma guo" (ie ‘Malaysia’), which explains this smart meme calling for people to support 'Malaysia' and travel there now. (Photo: @kkday)

Hong Kong-based ride-sharing service GoGoVan couldn't resist poking fun at the whole mess, which all started because of a taxi ride. It posted this ad on Facebook reminding its users of the importance of passenger privacy, which roughly translates to: "Passenger privacy is the most important. Don’t secretly record backseat passengers." Sounds to us like it could soothe a few Go-Jek-related "auto-lock" fracases here. (Photo: GoGoVan)

This meme based on popular Korean mobile phone game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUGB) has two video game characters (who, ahem, happen to resemble Andy and Jacqueline) in a car braying to go to “Lei Yu Mun”, which is the address that Jacqueline gave for her home in the scandalous video. (Photo: @jackzblog)

Finally, a meme that points out the obvious. Alluding to Andy and Jacqueline’s foolish (or was it foolhardy) ignorance of being filmed in a public taxi, the meme poster remarked: “I’m poor and hardly take taxis, but at least I know there’s such a thing called a dashcam.” (Photo: @poorpoorgirlhk)