Video / NZ HeraldOtago Daily Times cartoonist Shaun Yeo said he was annoyed and upset that a cartoon created to mourn the Christchurch mosque attacks has been hijacked for an anti-vaccination message. Yeo created his ''crying kiwi'' cartoon in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, and the image went viral after striking a chord with New Zealanders devastated by the events. Now, the cartoon has been appropriated in an anti-vaccination image being shared on social media. The author of the famous crying kiwi cartoon is unhappy his image is being used by anti-vaxxers. The amended image shows a pair of crying kiwi captioned "Vaccinated" and "Non-Vaccinated", with a broken heart between them and a slogan below which said "This is NOT who we are".

Source: Otago Daily Times November 22, 2021 23:48 UTC