I must be out of the loop, what is wrong with pepe aside from having strong links to 4chan?
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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
ye, im tired of losing memes to fascist assholes. at this point nobody even cares about pepes association anymore, you can just use all the pepes you want and you probably wont even get shit for it. you have nothing to lose apart from upvotes which are worthless to begin with. its completely free to reclaim all the symbols you want.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Nothing except for that really. People just like to twist reality like
Pepe > 4chan > known for weirdos = Using Pepe means you are a literal Nazi
Nevermind the fact that half the fucking internet was using pepes in completely innocent ways.
The core of the problem is the ADL (Anti Defamation League) which likes to pretend they have the authority to proclaim anything and everything as a hatespeech symbol because like 7 people used it in a racist context.
fushuan@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It wasn’t pepe by itself, it was the clown pepe which was widely used in twitter and the like, before it became a fascist shithole.
thallamabond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Also reddit, r/frenworld, r/clownworld, r/honkler, and the dozens of subs created for ban evasion.
Super racist, sometimes thinly veiled.
474D@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There was a surge of qnon junkies using pepe but idk if that kept going or not
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
idk, I remember liking the pepe meme in the before times, but I’ve been classically conditioned against it since.
rigatti@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Pepe has been reclaimed!
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Still feel like I usually see him around right wing stuff
rigatti@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Maybe? I watch lots of Twitch and he’s there just doing Pepe/Peepo things.