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CNET believes Pepe the Frog needs to die off since it is a hate meme.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 12/5/16 at 1:16 pm
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Pepe the Frog: It's not every day that a meme becomes a hate symbol. The "sad frog" started as a character in Matt Furie's comic series "Boy's Club" back in 2005. It was a harmless cartoon for years until its dark transformation over the past year or so.
White supremacists and anti-Semites appropriated the frog for racist posts across social media. The peak of Pepe the Frog's new identity might have been when Donald Trump manually retweeted a cartoon of himself as Pepe in October 2015. Since then, the Anti-Defamation League has listed Pepe as a hate symbol, among the ranks of swastikas and burning crosses.
Even the meme's original artist wants Pepe's dark, new twist to end. In mid-October, he helped launch an effort to #SavePepe and re-transform his frog into the goofy amphibian it once was.
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Posted on 12/5/16 at 1:17 pm to HailToTheChiz
The Founding Fathers did not envision the First Amendment protecting Hate Memes!
Posted on 12/5/16 at 1:18 pm to Damone
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The Founding Fathers did not envision the First Amendment protecting Hate Memes!
Posted on 12/5/16 at 1:31 pm to HailToTheChiz
That little frog has rustled so many jimmies this past year or so. The meme war was a slaughter
This post was edited on 12/5/16 at 1:33 pm
Posted on 12/5/16 at 1:50 pm to Pecker
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meme war
Only someone with the handle of pecker could think posting memes on the internet actually is a war of any type.Posted on 12/5/16 at 1:55 pm to HailToTheChiz
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Alfred Ng
Freddy Norwegium can suck it.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 1:56 pm to FreddieMac
Somebody needs to Google meme war.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:07 pm to FreddieMac
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memes on the internet actually is a war of any type.
I think you underestimate the power of social media. I can assure you Donald Trump did not. To the contrary he played it like a fiddle.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:08 pm to HailToTheChiz
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meme war.
Pepe is a Meme of mass destruction. MMD
This post was edited on 12/5/16 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:21 pm to HailToTheChiz
quote:How dumb is all of this.... It is a freakin' cartoon frog. It doesn't hate.....
Pepe the Frog: It's not every day that a meme becomes a hate symbol. The "sad frog" started as a character in Matt Furie's comic series "Boy's Club" back in 2005. It was a harmless cartoon for years until its dark transformation over the past year or so.
White supremacists and anti-Semites appropriated the frog for racist posts across social media. The peak of Pepe the Frog's new identity might have been when Donald Trump manually retweeted a cartoon of himself as Pepe in October 2015. Since then, the Anti-Defamation League has listed Pepe as a hate symbol, among the ranks of swastikas and burning crosses.
Even the meme's original artist wants Pepe's dark, new twist to end. In mid-October, he helped launch an effort to #SavePepe and re-transform his frog into the goofy amphibian it once was.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:23 pm to HailToTheChiz
Love Trump's Pepe?
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:23 pm to HailToTheChiz
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:24 pm to HailToTheChiz
look at all this hate!
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:27 pm to Ace Midnight
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Love Trump's Pepe?
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:28 pm to Brosef Stalin
We can't allow a Hillary Pepe. It just doesn't seem right.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:32 pm to HailToTheChiz
They should stick to their tech reviews.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:37 pm to FreddieMac
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Only someone with the handle of pecker could think posting memes on the internet actually is a war of any type.
As a veteran of the Great Meme War I am absolutely disgusted with your irreverence towards the white men who fought to save your life.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:37 pm to Brosef Stalin
Posted on 12/5/16 at 2:41 pm to LSU316
CNET/download.com is loaded with malware. They can get fricked. Pepe is way less evil.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 3:28 pm to FreddieMac
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Only someone with the handle of pecker could think posting memes on the internet actually is a war of any type.
Only someone with advanced retardation could suggest that there is a correlation between a message board username and the intelligence of the person behind the username.
My post was in jest. The idea of a meme war is a meme in itself. That being said, Hillary Clinton thought internet memes important enough to assign a paid team of campaign workers to research and decry the cartoon frog known as Pepe in an attempt to combat the popularity of said meme.
Donald Trump, Pepe the frog, and white supremacists: an explainer
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