it's an internet meme they took by sheer volume, just by using it a lot. I think you have your causallity a bit mixed there. They did use it a lot, and then p

it's an internet meme they took by sheer volume, just by using it a lot. I think you have your causallity a bit mixed there. They did use it a lot, and then people started lobbing guilt by association at the rest of us that were using it. We had no option but to let Pepe go. Pepe is a symbol of hate because it wasn't my (or anyone's) hill to die on defending the integrity of a meme from libel by social manipulators.