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Well, that means all "Pepe" variations are banned? This is good.

TameAntelope 6y ago
I would be very sad if Pepe writ large were banned, he's always been much larger than the racist aspects of how people tried to abuse him. He's a victim in all of this too, IMO...
aminozuur 6y ago
In Hong Kong, Pepe The Frog is a symbol for freedom and anti-authoritarianism.
_iyig 6y ago
Pepe emotes on Twitch are omnipresent, and have no political connotation. https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/14/17335670/twitch-emotes-meaning-list-kappa-monkas-omegalul-pepe-trihard https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/14/17335670/twitch-emotes-mea... edit: Downvotes, really? I'm not wrong. Read the link, or use Twitch chat for yourself, as I do on a semi-daily basis.
watwut 6y ago
After seeing the documentary "feels good man" about pepe, I felt sorry for his creator.
- kache_ 6y ago
  feels bad man
fennecfoxen 6y ago
It’s interesting. Pepe has never actually really been a hate symbol. He’s an Everyman symbol, in the tradition of Pierrot, the sad clown, the trusting fool, who just happens to be used by a casual online video game culture (which is definitely a superset of various hate groups, but also contains many who are simply there to Minecraft and shoot aliens.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot
- watwut 6y ago
  Pepe was 4chan culture, but was it gaming culture outside of 4chan? Cause I really did not seen it much in general gaming culture, except from chan people.
  - fennecfoxen 6y ago
    It might be the result of 4chan's influence spreading, mind you, but these days it's part of gaming culture all over Twitch, and maybe 50% of Discord.
subjectsigma 6y ago
This Pepe shit is crazy to me. Pepe was and still is used as a generic meme in so many contexts it just makes no sense that people declare it a hate symbol. I was watching a keyboard review by a Korean guy the other day and it had pepe meme in the video. He has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. English isn't his first language. You really think he's dog whistling to thousands of racists, or people just like stupid memes? Do you think whoever made this (extremely popular) short is a racist? https://youtube.com/watch?v=gAbi2_n8_Mw https://youtube.com/watch?v=gAbi2_n8_Mw It really feels like some CNN broadcaster said something like "Trump bad, and Trump Pepe!" And suddenly there's this small subset of the population who dropped everything they were doing, faces flushed, veins popping, and started vehemently writing about why this crude depiction of a frog used by teenagers for laughs should be #cancelled. It's absurd. It's like progressives are parodying themselves.

I would be very sad if Pepe writ large were banned, he's always been much larger than the racist aspects of how people tried to abuse him. He's a victim in all of this too, IMO...

aminozuur 6y ago

In Hong Kong, Pepe The Frog is a symbol for freedom and anti-authoritarianism.

_iyig 6y ago

Pepe emotes on Twitch are omnipresent, and have no political connotation. https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/14/17335670/twitch-emotes-meaning-list-kappa-monkas-omegalul-pepe-trihard https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/14/17335670/twitch-emotes-mea... edit: Downvotes, really? I'm not wrong. Read the link, or use Twitch chat for yourself, as I do on a semi-daily basis.

watwut 6y ago

After seeing the documentary "feels good man" about pepe, I felt sorry for his creator.

kache_ 6y ago
feels bad man

fennecfoxen 6y ago

It’s interesting. Pepe has never actually really been a hate symbol. He’s an Everyman symbol, in the tradition of Pierrot, the sad clown, the trusting fool, who just happens to be used by a casual online video game culture (which is definitely a superset of various hate groups, but also contains many who are simply there to Minecraft and shoot aliens.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot

watwut 6y ago
Pepe was 4chan culture, but was it gaming culture outside of 4chan? Cause I really did not seen it much in general gaming culture, except from chan people.
- fennecfoxen 6y ago
  It might be the result of 4chan's influence spreading, mind you, but these days it's part of gaming culture all over Twitch, and maybe 50% of Discord.

subjectsigma 6y ago

This Pepe shit is crazy to me. Pepe was and still is used as a generic meme in so many contexts it just makes no sense that people declare it a hate symbol. I was watching a keyboard review by a Korean guy the other day and it had pepe meme in the video. He has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. English isn't his first language. You really think he's dog whistling to thousands of racists, or people just like stupid memes? Do you think whoever made this (extremely popular) short is a racist? https://youtube.com/watch?v=gAbi2_n8_Mw https://youtube.com/watch?v=gAbi2_n8_Mw It really feels like some CNN broadcaster said something like "Trump bad, and Trump Pepe!" And suddenly there's this small subset of the population who dropped everything they were doing, faces flushed, veins popping, and started vehemently writing about why this crude depiction of a frog used by teenagers for laughs should be #cancelled. It's absurd. It's like progressives are parodying themselves.