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I mean, originally, Pepe just really liked to take his pants all the way down to take a piss.
https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/feels-good-man
This is the literal original Pepe.
… feels good man.
Pepes are just an advanced version of emoji, they can be used to express almost any idea.
Of course you’re going to get some variety.
From comics about pissing with your pants down to alt-right co-opts to reclamation with Hong Kong democracy protests, this little frog has been and seen some shit.
Donald Duck fought WWII and has actual PTSD. We kick the shit out of our cartoons man.
We should take all things that fascists use to identify eachother and reclaim for good. Do not allow fascists to claim cultural ground or identify each other. Leave them with nothing.
I’d argue in the opposite direction. Can we turn cancerous un-fun heroes in games like Overwatch and League of Legends into Fascist symbols to get them deleted by the devs?
I mean imagine getting Teemo removed from League and 2XKO…
The swatiska is a very cool looking symbol, and it being unusable for decades is a crime against design.
Nazi’s only really used one style of swatiska. It’s not too hard to differentiate if you don’t knee jerk. Any Hindu and Navajo person really only needs to avoid one specific style.
Can you imagine being these guys as Nazism is talking root in Germany?
Vote Number One to Change the Team Name: No, fuck that! We came first, and those German assholes can’t steal our cool symbol!
Vote Number Two, A Little Later: Okay, I think maybe we should go ahead and change the name of the team.
Behind the Bastards did a really good two parter on the history of the Swastika and similarly shaped symbols. It was used a crazy number of time before the Nazis took it.
And it should be taken back, it has a beautiful history, and doesn’t deserve to be owned by the scum of the earth.
in East Asia it has always been associated with religion and temples, not sure about south Asia where it came from
Leave them with nothing.
scorched earth!
Let’s goooo #pride #stolz 🇩🇪❤️🏳️🌈
Pissing. It started with a comic where the frog learns to piss, AFAIK.
He got caught pissing with his pants all the way down, because it “feels good man”.
Wait, seriously?
Yep
This resonated strongly with the alt-right.
As if “Pepe is nazi now” was not more culture war bullshit.
Pretending the meme wasn’t being used in a large part by /pol/ scum is cope
Pretending Pepe wasn’t a bigger proponent of Twitch culture is cope.
Pepe was just used by all terminally online people.
oh ny god shut up you werent there then. you dont know what hes talking about. there was a solid like decade of that. I know, i was in the proto altright edgy teen to communist tranny pipeline
I wasn’t on /pol/, that’s right. I preferred to watch war videos on live leak without any comments on.
Pepe was bloody everywhere, acting like your corner of the internet was special in that regard is just lacking perspective. Memes spread through internet spaces, terminally online people interact with a slew of other terminally online people. Which then spread any funny or cool idea on to others.
Normie’s aka mainstream media just didn’t interact with pepe before they started reporting on events happening on /pol/. And coined it a 4chan exclusive, because they didn’t care about any other corner online
Because it’s an internet meme, not because it’s a nazi symbol. Pretending they owned it in any way is just stupid
From the original creator of the character.
From Boy’s Club comics to appropriated alt right symbol (WT actual F tho), Pepe has often been misunderstood.
That’s why we work with his creator Matt Furie to make the only officially licensed Pepe toy out there. Feels good man.
Proceeds help Matt Furie fight Nazis
They tried to take pepe frogs like they did the OK gesture.
Ooh is that over yet? I loved the OK gesture! It’s better than thumbs-up because that can also mean “let’s swim upwards” or “sit on my dick” in some contexts.
Prohibiting symbols always gives them more power.
It’s a meme. I don’t think there’s canon story to the frog, both good and bad can use it for whatever purpose
I mean, there is a canon story
Pepe definitely became a mascot of the alt-right for a time
As far as I recall, the whole declaration that it was a hate symbol was pretty misinformed to begin with.
It was originally used by tons of people online, particularly by quite a lot of 4chan users. So it got mostly used for weird memes like ones about adult man children earning good boy points towards chicken tenders and being socially inept, and sometimes for weird alt-right bullshit.
Then during the horrid mess of GamerGate (which has direct ties to a handful of current rightwing grifters gaining popularity), at one point some rights advocacy group labelled it a hate symbol due to the association with GamerGate by way of 4chan. I mean sure, hateful movement, right? But they were using it like people use stick figures. In my opinion Pepe was more the medium than the message, and it wasn’t so overwhelmingly used for hate like twitter/x that you could legitimately make the argument that it hands down was a dog whistle or only used by those who would tolerate the hateful views.
Then again, I was a heavy 4chan user many many years ago (dropped off during the scientology raids), so my point of view is probably skewed.
I get that for a while a lot of the internet stopped using it due to the negative associations and news articles citing the original claim by the advocacy group, but it makes me happy to see the awkward little frog being “reclaimed” for general use again.
I get that for a while a lot of the internet stopped using it due to the negative associations and news articles citing the original claim by the advocacy group
I honestly think it’s a perspective of age, I don’t recall ever seeing it being dropped. Despite mostly being active in queer friendly areas of the internet.
But I recon age might have a factor, as everyone has seen Pepe used for all sorts of things before gamergate became a thing. Whilst communities based on younger individuals, might have taken other stances
Disagree, Pepe and Kekistan were intertwined with the alt-right for a hot minute and while it didn’t originate there it lingers.
It’s sick to see it being “taken back” but that doesn’t make my point less valid, it was a mascot for a hot minute.
I’m with prettybunnys, I remember these and 100s of ban evasion subs, they were NOT thinly veiled racism/antisemitism it was outright. r/frenworld r/clownworld r/honker r/clownworldwar
There’s a documentary on Pepe that includes the original artist, if you’re interested in the story. both the fictional canon and real life arc.
NGL I think it was the other way around…
No, it went all the way around. Full 360.
Hostile take-overs are a bitch
Maybe the bike lanes are nazis too.
There was some drama in a discord I was in years ago over it. Not a lot of people knew about its origins and the mod staff in the server banned it from the memes channel without saying anything.
Walkable city: Here’s your tiny foot traffic lane. Be sure to watch for skateboards while you leave your lane to go around the columns supporting the train line.
at least you have SOMETHING 😭
Even that is better than driving everywhere.
