Posted on 02/24/2017 3:19:31 PM PST by 1rudeboy
Memes
One thing I noticed over there, is that they don't roast each other, as many do here at FR. I've been at FR since 2000 and lurked for a couple of years before joining. It's one of the changes I've seen over the years that I wish didn't happen.
I’m tired of doing other people’s research for them.
Nobody directed me to the website/resource, Know Your Memes. I somehow found it for myself. I found it, in fact, when I was researching Pepe the Frog. I learned every precise detail of Pepe’s origin. It took very little time, and was quite interesting.
The author has undertaken an article to explain Pepe. How is that remotely possible, without taking the few minutes required to learn the origin of the frog, and why he caught on at 4-chan?
What? Signing up to FR used to be a very intimidating prospect, FReepers have always been mean as snakes, lol. They're not as mean now as they were in 2000, I can assure you, I lurked for years myself before signing up. It took W's 2nd term betrayal immediately after inauguration to get me to finally do it.
Well, cough it up. Stop playing coy. What, do you have a blog somewhere, want to make a few pennies from Google?
Why so smug?
Your snark is noted.
Actually I’m wondering how it’s possible for me to invest truly minimal amounts of time and learn basic, common facts while others seemingly cannot. If Pepe in fact has a precise, definite origin, and if you were going to write an entire article on Pepe, would you not at least attempt to learn where he came from?
And now, I have found it for myself . . . genius thing, the web (and bulletin boards in particular). See, the thing is, I found something on the internet that I found to be funny, and it never crossed my mind that I should research the subject in depth before posting it here in order to keep from disturbing your delicate sensibilities.
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Pepe was a cartoon character from a strip some ten years ago.
If someone can convince me that I’m the only person on this thread capable of doing even the most basic Internet research, then I will revisit the site, and post the address plus a pertinent excerpt,
Going strictly from memory, I believe it was a graphic novel.
I had to go finish the rest. :) Totally fascinating, true or not. Thanks for a break from all the stressful news today.
You’re the one making the claim, so it’s incumbent upon you to back it up when challenged. I don’t see anything really wrong with the origin as described, other than being very brief to the point of omissions here and there, but it’s not inaccurate as you claim.
Again, you claim it’s incorrect? Back it up rather than flouncing around in a huff because INTERNET!
I prefer adding to the Kek mythos. It’s entertaining if nothing else. After all, it’s just a cartoon frog!
In a huff? Is that projection? I’m stunned that the author of the Pepe article couldn’t or wouldn’t spend five minutes, max, learning about the origin of the frog. Why even write an article, if even that minimal level of research is too much to ask?
But in a huff, no. Not in the least.
The best way to describe Kek as the made up Deity of internet trolls.
As a matter of fact, you bring-up a very interesting point: it’s a meme, and nothing about it needs to be accurate.
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