i don't consider the cartoon frog to be a bad thing. so no.
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Feels bad man. Pepe the frog has been listed as a hate symbol.
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i don't consider the cartoon frog to be a bad thing. so no.
There is more overlap between these communities than you think. Gyms and lifting subcultures overlap with red pill, MRA, MGTOW, etc, which leads to anti-SJW and gamergate types which overlap with 4chan which overlaps with Stormfront.
There's basically a slippery slope involved with all of these that leads to another thriving, seedy underbelly of the interwebs.
Yeah, dude's prolly just gonna can it, if he hasn't yet.
So you consider that an open inventation to use pepe to push hate speech?
excelsiorlef
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What?
Something along the lines of the alt-right started/corrupted it and the Clinton article legitimised it by giving them the attention.
Peter Ian Staker
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Did any of my posts suggest that?
I just don't think that if assholes use a meme to push hate speech that means they now own that meme and we should ban it from public use.
If we did that then no meme would ever be allowed.
Already Torn
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No, the neonazis started it
I don't think it should be banned either. These idiots are using a shitty outdated meme. It's not even used that often around here anymore.
Mr Fahrenheit
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Another very 2016 headline. Poor Pepe, he's been such a good friend for so many years, he doesn't deserve this.
It's especially dumb since in itself it's just a cartoon frog. You could MS Paint some racist text over a picture of literally anything.
It's especially dumb since in itself it's just a cartoon frog. You could MS Paint some racist text over a picture of literally anything.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
The mainstream media running articles on Pepe has been one of the stupidest fucking situations I've ever known.
Going so far as to declare him as a "hate symbol" is fucking absurd and sends the message to 4chan et al that with perseverance they can turn ANYTHING into a hate symbol.
Going so far as to declare him as a "hate symbol" is fucking absurd and sends the message to 4chan et al that with perseverance they can turn ANYTHING into a hate symbol.
As someone who loves lifting, it pains me to agree with this. I recently lost two gym acquaintances for calling out some really vulgar misogyny. I don't know if it's just the hypermasculinity fetish that exists there, or the sheer amount of narcissists drawn to the sport, but that shit is incredibly common.
On top of that, there's this attitude of "You can improve yourself, work hard, be consistent and you'll see results." Which is good! However it has mutated to "Anyone who isn't successful just isn't trying/working hard" mindset. Which is hostile at best, at worst it results in a slide into the rest of this shit.
ebullientprism
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I really want the alt right to start using a Disney character to see what happens.
erotic grandpa
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"Meme culture" is the worst. Matt Furie deserves better than this.
They would get sued out the ass. Disney don't play that shit.
Did you even bothered to read the site this news is about? Like, at all?
That reads like she wasn't aware JaredTSwift is a parody account.
I'll dab to that!
Chezzymann
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What you think they would sue 4chan or Reddit and ask them to stop posting memes with their characters? I think that would be unprecedented
Actually, I'm pretty sure that pacha meme has been used by the alt right at some point
He's all we got now.
ebullientprism
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Sue who? This isnt an individual or an organization.
I think they would work the PR machine with the news media to make it sound benign. It would be fascinating though.
TheSpoiler
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A few hours later and that awful gif is still around.
FallingEdge
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Look at you swole shaming.
DoctorFling
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Pepe is a symbol of sadness, I don't know where hate comes into it.
dapperbandit
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Because Pepe is an avatar of Kek, the frog headed Egyptian God of Darkness
TwEE-N-Toast
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This 4chan has such incredible power.
What happens when 4chan or whatever decides to turn Hillary emojis or the like into symbols of white supremacy? Will her face be blurred out on tv?
What happens when 4chan or whatever decides to turn Hillary emojis or the like into symbols of white supremacy? Will her face be blurred out on tv?
Already Torn
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No, it's not really the same thing.
Veritigo_X
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Just a hilarious cartoon frog. Nothing weird about this.
Galactic Specter
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I'm surprised Minions weren't listed as a hate symbol last summer.
the_sun_king
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Salty Rice
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My boi Pepe has my support. In what world do we live where its ok to hate on frogs.
tkscz
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These pictures feel like a joke. How can anyone take something this dumb serious?
Hydrophobic
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Are you talking about 88? Because that one is definitely actually used by white supremacists. (I haven't checked out that the site, so I don't know what you're talking about for sure).
Yeah those idiots think antisemitism is still a thing and not just trolling. Luckily there are people like you to call them out.
I mean numbers being used as a hate symbol? That's absurd and has never happened.
crooked spin
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uh, do i have to burn my Boys Club zines now?
Don't you think that concern a little... reaching, and requires mental gymnastics to function?
You could literally say the same thing about anything, "NeoGAF is a gaming community so surely it overlaps with Gamergate, its a slippery slope posting on NeoGAF". If that sounds ridiculous, so is using Pepe as a meme being a "slippery slope" towards the alt-right if its not used in a neo-nazi context.
Nah his reasoning makes perfect sense. Same reason if someone weighs the same amount as a duck you burn them.
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