Don’t let Doge end up like Pepe!

  • @FireRetardant
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    62 months ago

    I must be out of the loop, what is wrong with pepe aside from having strong links to 4chan?

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      Nothing except for that really. People just like to twist reality like

      Pepe > 4chan > known for weirdos = Using Pepe means you are a literal Nazi

      Nevermind the fact that half the fucking internet was using pepes in completely innocent ways.

      The core of the problem is/was the ADL (Anti Defamation League) which likes to pretend they have the authority to proclaim anything and everything as a hatespeech symbol because like 7 people used it in a racist context.

      With the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict they have lost basically all credibility and are now considered an unreliable source by Wikipedia editors.

      • Fushuan [he/him]
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        42 months ago

        It wasn’t pepe by itself, it was the clown pepe which was widely used in twitter and the like, before it became a fascist shithole.

        • @thallamabond
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          42 months ago

          Also reddit, r/frenworld, r/clownworld, r/honkler, and the dozens of subs created for ban evasion.

          Super racist, sometimes thinly veiled.

    • @474D
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      12 months ago

      There was a surge of qnon junkies using pepe but idk if that kept going or not