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The Truth About Pepe the Frog and the Cult of Kek

22 pointsby SocksCanCloseover 8 years ago

6 comments

themgtover 8 years ago
For reference (this post is clearly mimicking the format): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hillaryclinton.com&#x2F;feed&#x2F;donald-trump-pepe-the-frog-and-white-supremacists-an-explainer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hillaryclinton.com&#x2F;feed&#x2F;donald-trump-pepe-the-fr...</a><p>and: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Pe27DXI.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;Pe27DXI.jpg</a><p>My best explanation for Pepe is sort of a collective Baader Meinhof where 10,000 trolls spending a million hours posting Pepe memes eventually piece together a semi-coherent mythology via a vast trawl through frog symbological history.<p>It is sort of painfully funny that serious organizations like SPLC and the Clinton campaign have seemingly fallen for an intentional trolling effort. [1]<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dailycaller.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;heres-how-two-twitter-pranksters-convinced-the-world-that-pepe-the-frog-meme-is-just-a-front-for-white-nationalism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dailycaller.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;14&#x2F;heres-how-two-twitter-pran...</a>
SocksCanCloseover 8 years ago
The weird confluence of Donald Trump, Egyptology, Numerology, and Korean gaming culture. This is too weird to not post. Say what you will about the alt-right and 2016, this is a brilliant exposition on a curious eddy in the current of the national mood. Where it goes is nearly incredible.
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rngesusover 8 years ago
Quality meme, top kek. I&#x27;m doing this right, yes?
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fjejfjrjdjcover 8 years ago
What a bullshit article. The author clearly has no idea what the hell they&#x27;re talking about.<p>Pepe the frog belongs to the cancer that is &#x2F;pol&#x2F; no more so than pictures with captions using Impact font superimposed over them. The only reason pepe is associated with &#x2F;pol&#x2F; and Trump is because they both originated on 4chan as memes. The Trump versions of pepe comics are only a minority fraction of the many different permutations of the meme, ranging from &quot;smug pepe&quot; to &quot;rare pepes.&quot;
GFK_of_xmaspastover 8 years ago
Pepe the Frog is a Matt Furie creation and it&#x27;s a real shame what&#x27;s happened to it.
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stephenrover 8 years ago
TLDR: Internet shit bags make something out of nothing to defend&#x2F;explain&#x2F;support their love and devotion for an orange hitler.<p>Next up: Americans write September 11 as 9&#x2F;11 so the twin towers was an inside job by the police and fire department.<p>Give me a fucking break.
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