Talk:Pepe the Frog
Pepe looks like a reptilian in disguise. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 16:23, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
Stuff to mention[edit]
In bullet point form on talk page because I can't be bothered properly editing the article right now & haven't read all of these sources yet. Feel free to integrate any of this, or else I'll try & come back to it later.
- Boys Club comic mostly fart jokes & other toilet humour.
- "Feels good man" meme comes from one about peeing.
- Use on 4chan & imageboards, with assorted variants, e.g. "feels bad man".
- Use by alt-right & white supremacists on /pol/ etc. & "campaign to reclaim Pepe from normies".
- Trump Pepe already a meme this time last year, & tweeted by Trump himself.
- The Deplorables (there are probably better articles/blogs).
- Hillary Clinton campaign's Pepe explainer.
- Heat Street flip-flopping (Ian Miles Cheong/Louise Mensch): Pepe's not a racist meme, yeah it is, actually yeah.
- ADL recognises Pepe as a hate symbol: press release, database entry.
- Matt Furie condemns alt-right & supports Hillary. [1], [2], [3]. [4]
WēāŝēīōīďMethinks it is a Weasel 22:56, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
Kek[edit]
Kek comes from the old days of world of warcraft. When a human or orc in the game said "lol", the other one would see "kek" in the chat box. This is a will know meme in gameing. I don't know why its here.— Unsigned, by: 107.72.164.100 / talk / contribs 15:26, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
Because Kek also happens to be the name of a Egyptian Chaos God who is a frog. Since Pepe was trending at the time 4chan realized this, they have associated Pepe with a chaos god who shares a name with a WoW meme. 74.77.221.89 (talk) 01:15, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
Pepe: Rare, Racist or Both?[edit]
- From PBS Idea Channel. See also, the follow-up comment responses video. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 00:09, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
Why waste time on Pepe ?[edit]
Been on 9gag for a while, and I saw many people using the meme, but never for nationalist meanings. Frankly, it's useless to waste time on a fucking frog, there's literally no point in having a page on a meme, while we could try to make pages on actual politics/pseudoscience/conspiracy theories. Diacelium (talk) 00:39, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- Wow, so that's a helpful tone. Honestly, I wish you knew the basics. And yeah, notice which site that is. Even TOW finds Pepe notable
, and that's without sharing our particular profile of highlighting all things related to fringe- and hate movements. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 02:23, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- Also, 9gag?
Let me help you with that. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 02:25, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- Also, 9gag?
Trump and Pepe, sittin' in a tree...[edit]
While this is a mashup (the pose to the right most likely being coincidental), the tweet to the left is not fake. Old news, but Trump actually tweeted that. Seen here as part of a mashup from, you guessed it — the Daily Stormer. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 03:02, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Pepe in Spain[edit]
In Spanish Pepe is just is a pet form of the Spanish name José nd is extremely common. No wonder there is a "Casa Pepe" in Spain or that ome people called Pepe (wich again, is perhaps the most common name in Spain) happen to be fascists.90.165.105.215 (talk) 20:45, 13 January 2019 (UTC)