Never say die..!!
Posted on 05/06/2017 4:05:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Pepe the Frog is dead, killed off by his own creator after he watched Pepe turn from a wholesome meme into a symbol co-opted by neo-Nazis for the alt-right.
Pepe was created by cartoonist Matt Furie back in 2006 for his comic Boy's Club, but after everything that has happened to Pepe in the last year (including its official recognition as a symbol of hate by the Anti-Defamation League), Furie put Pepe in a coffin in a page-long strip published today, Comic Book Resources reported.
In an essay published by Time in October, Furie wrote about how Pepe was never supposed to be about hate. The "blissfully stoned frog" who "enjoyed a simple life of snacks, soda, and pulling his pants all the way down to go pee" was apolitical.
Pepe began a healthy life a popular, innocuous meme around 2008, Furie said, with his dopey face expressing little more than feeling good or bad about something. Only recently was Pepe forced into politics.
Momentum built around Pepe and he quickly became ingrained with right-leaning politics. So ingrained that President Donald Trump tweeted a picture of Pepe-as-Trump during his campaign to become the republican presidential nominee in October 2015.
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"It's completely insane that Pepe has been labeled a symbol of hate, and that racists and anti-Semites are using a once peaceful frog-dude from my comic book as an icon of hate," Furie wrote in Time. "It's a nightmare, and the only thing I can do is see this as an opportunity to speak out against hate... I understand that it's out of my control, but in the end, Pepe is whatever you say he is, and I, the creator, say that Pepe is love."
Speaking out wasn't enough though, and Pepe's life in comics was cut short.
The death is only symbolic though. The alt-right meme will live on, whether Furie wants it to or not.
Hilarious. Typing ‘sans glasses’.
Oh No!!Pepe croaked!!
But then the Anti-Defamation League has determined that rainy Sunday afternoons are anti-Semitic and have demanded reparations from the National Weather Service.
Pepe is gone, the alt left haters killed him.
ping
Speaking of cartooning, and animation, who invented that style of drawing that is used in the “O Fortuna misheard lyrics” video?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8
Pepe Lives Matter
This is like Disney deciding to kill off Mickey.
You did’t hear? Disney made Mickey/Michelle gender-fluid.
4chan, that popularized Pepe, are laughing their heads off about this and all the other hoaxes they have pulled that the MSM has swallowed, hook, line, sinker, and in this case, frog gig.
For some reason, the MSM is now reminding me of the Oscar winning Chuck Jones animation “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics” (1965). Specifically, in the role of ‘the squiggle’.
“The dot wondered why she didn’t notice how hairy and coarse he was, how unrefined and graceless, and how he mispronounced his L’s and picked his ear. And suddenly she realized that what she thought was freedom and joy was nothing but anarchy and sloth. “You are as meaningless as a melon,” she said coolly. “Undefined, unkempt and unaccountable, insignificant, indeterminate, and inadvertent. Out of shape, out of order, out of place, and out of luck.”
Yes, the MSM in a nutshell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSbdvzbOzY
10 minutes.
See!!! See!!! Pepe is giving a racist hand sign in that cartoon!
Never say die..!!
“Use the force, Luke.”
Pepe belongs to the people.
Kek
4 chan “pol” sure has had some epic wins this year.
I am more than a little impressed.
kek has nothing to do with neo nazi.
Leftist blurt out the accusation like a zombie walks.
How long before Zombie Pepe makes his appearance?
Pepe is not a “hate symbol”
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