The Truth about Pepe the Frog and the Cult of Kek

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[Albion Wilde]

I would imagine the frog is worth a lot less after Hillary and the ADL publicly pretended it was a hate symbol.

Not if you've been over to the millenials' favorite site Reddit. Here is their The_Donald subReddit, where Pepe was extremely popular, especially after Hillary's Deplorables speech, earning herself the millenial Trump supporters' virulent contempt. And here is Reddit's Pepe archive.

[Albion Wilde]

PS Here is one of the Reddit comments:

I can't believe this country put a man on the f****g moon and now it's triggered by cartoon frogs.
what the f***

[Lazamataz]

You and I have tangled, often.

But this article is fascinating.

Thanks for posting it.

[Fantasywriter]

I spend a lot of time on The_Donald, and have for nearly a year. After Hillary vilified Pepe some of the memes were defiant, but some were poignant. One thing about the centipedes: they love their Pepe frog.

[Fantasywriter]

Re my prior comment. I was thinking of the commercial value of the frog. For example, if Fury decided to do another graphic novel featuring Pepe, it would be a harder sell. A wildly popular meme is one thing, but a supposed hate symbol—per Hillary and the ADL—is entirely different.

[Albion Wilde]

You’re right about that, unless he finds a way to make it defiant and transcend the association.

[Fantasywriter]

That’s a good point. As you mentioned earlier, it’s a shame for the artist not to be able to profit from creating such a character. Hillary takes so little thought for things like that. She spots a meme that rubs her the wrong way, and blam—the frog is a hate symbol.

We are so blessed and fortunate that she lost.

[Albion Wilde]

We are so blessed and fortunate that she lost.

Bears repeating! We are so blessed and fortunate that she lost!

[Fantasywriter]

:)

[Titan Magroyne]

Awesome read. Way back when, I had the time & energy to be in on the Internetz. Now I’m just grateful to be filled in on what I missed. Thank you for posting.

[Fantasywriter]

Did you read the thread? Kek has nothing—zero—to do with Pepe’s origins. It is an association made by *some* after the fact.

[Trillian]

Ping

[right way right]

Nerds!

[JouleZ]

I still haven’t signed up...too busy lurking. ;)

[Krosan]

Late reply here. I visited this “underbelly of internet” and found these kids extremely annoying. I was arguing about something and was representing the conservative position and then a lot of posters came to “help” saying I am absolutely right and ... it is all because of Jews, Zionist Occupation Government and Hitler did nothing wrong.