Pepe the Frog’s Creator Goes Legally Nuclear Against the Alt-Right

I'm skeptical that a copyright can be pressed at this point, seeing as no action was taken for years as Pepe memes were created and used on 4chan and elsewhere. The creator is on record as having knowledge of their use for quite some time, if I'm remembering correctly.

Couldn't this backfire? The more the author protests exclusively against "alt-right" usage of his creation, doesn't the use of the logo become fair use as political satire?

I&#x27;ve never read the original comics while Pepe as meme is spammed through chats at compsci uni (because it&#x27;s fun), it&#x27;s very popular as meme.<p>The majority of racist and sexist memes are used as way to ridicule virtue-signaling of positive discrimination for people of color, women, etc.

I find this pretty funny. I never got the pepe popularity but this is a good outcome IMHO.

The careless bundling of everyone under the sun into the &quot;alt-right&quot; category is getting out of hand.<p>I don&#x27;t care what you think about the shitposters on r&#x2F;The_Donald or Mike Cernovich, but they aren&#x27;t anything close to advocates for the white identity politics advocated by the &quot;alt-right&quot;.