Clown pepe has beren used for hare, vyt all the other ones not really. It’s used in twitch widely just for the happy frog it is.
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TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 3 days agoI guess I’ve been out of the loop for pre-hate Pepe (pre-2016), but the only reason I know of him at all is because of all the Nazi/Quon/KKK folks blasting him all over Twitter and everywhere else. I’ve always assumed everyone knew since it’s been almost a decade, and anyone using him these days is doing so in bad faith.
fushuan@lemm.ee 2 days ago
einkorn@feddit.org 3 days ago
Pepe was and always has been a neutral meme figure. And I’m not going to let some fking nazis take my meme frog!
averyminya@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Pepe was a neutral meme. He is not anymore.
beehaw.org/comment/4105872
The sad reality is that he is a politicized figuredhead for fascism. You can try and use him, but you need to be aware of how others use him, and it will end up reflecting more poorly on you than it will help reclaiming him.
I suggest looking the links on my comment linked, but at the very least on your own look up, “Pepe meme Putin”, and “was Pepe at January 6th”. People are using him to storm the capitol and dressing him up in an iron cross to assassinate political figures. That’s not just casual memes :(
I say this as someone who grew up with his era of memes (my first memes were icanhazcheezeburger which was the precursor to RageFu). I remember his good days too man.
But Pepe got Alex Jonesed. He got assaulted by the MAGA cult and they put him on a cross like Jesus and now he’s dying for their sins. I don’t think we can save him.