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.
Racists and anti-semites, so the left?
“...killed him off.”????? Isn’t that a hate crime?
It’s a crime of passion.
A symbol of hate and neo-nazism as defined by the left which declares everything not neo-marxist to be neo-nazi.
Those who bend their knee to that propaganda lining up with antifa, whether they have the integrity or self-awareness to admit it or not.
AntiFA == Anti-First Amendment.
AntiFA == Anti-Freedom of Assembly.
Green lives don’t matter.
Too late
Pepe is immortal now
The war will continue
If It is not Kek’s will, then it shall not come to pass.
This is like Disney deciding to kill off Mickey.
LOL! /pol/ responses have been pretty epic.
I like that one.
Scream Hillary. Just keep on screamin’.
They’re moving to meme-ing the ‘rainbow flag’, now. Halrious!
I know what antifa is and isn’t. It isn’t what it claims to be and named itself for. It is commiescum/fascist thugs and crybullies.
The point I was trying to make is that repeating the propaganda of the enemy is the act of an enemy.
Enemy is enemy.
There’s only one competent method for dealing with enemy and that is to close with and destroy.
No mercy.
No forgiveness.
To everything there is a season and the season is changing to the harsh much sooner than most want to admit.
Co-opted by neo-Nazis for the alt-right? LOLOL
Really? I’m still laughing at that one.
Everyone’s a nazi to the real nazis.
How many Americans believe that our President now is anti Semitic and racist? But do not feel like our previous President was either of those?
“They may take our Pepe, but they’ll never take... OUR FREEDOM!”
Is this meant to “punish” PRESIDENT TRUMP? FAIL
Ben Obi-Wan Ken-Pepe: You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
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