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Is pepe the frog okay now?
- Thread starter Smokeymicpot
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Heard that the Feels Good Man documentary from last year was real good. I gotta see it eventually.
If it's the smug version, it's not okay imo.
Otherwise, it's slightly eyebrow raising to me but ultimately fine depending on the context/audience. The original "feels good man" is timeless.
Here's Collige's Extremely Unofficial Guide to Identifying Pepes
Feels Good Man / Happy Pepe: Okay, this is the original we all know and love ✅
Sad Pepe / Feels Bad Man: Also okay, this predates the alt-right by a while ✅
Smug Pepe: Not okay, it's one degree off from the weird Groyper shit, plus no one else really uses it anymore ❌
Groyper: 100% alt-right, spawned from the smug version ❌
Clown Pepe: 100% alt-right, used by the same people as Groyper as well as Actual Nazi Nick Fuentes ❌
Angry Pepe: Extremely sus, associated with that ableist REEEE bullshit from /r9k/ ❌
This predates the alt-right stuff though, it's just general internet terribleness
Apu / Helper Pepe: Not instrinsically bad AFAIK, but this specific version and its variations started a lot more recently (2016) than the original Pepe and its variants ✅
Weird/"rare" Pepes: Extremely meta and also out of date. Do people even still post these?
Otherwise, it's slightly eyebrow raising to me but ultimately fine depending on the context/audience. The original "feels good man" is timeless.
Here's Collige's Extremely Unofficial Guide to Identifying Pepes
Feels Good Man / Happy Pepe: Okay, this is the original we all know and love ✅
Sad Pepe / Feels Bad Man: Also okay, this predates the alt-right by a while ✅
Smug Pepe: Not okay, it's one degree off from the weird Groyper shit, plus no one else really uses it anymore ❌
Groyper: 100% alt-right, spawned from the smug version ❌
Clown Pepe: 100% alt-right, used by the same people as Groyper as well as Actual Nazi Nick Fuentes ❌
Angry Pepe: Extremely sus, associated with that ableist REEEE bullshit from /r9k/ ❌
This predates the alt-right stuff though, it's just general internet terribleness
Apu / Helper Pepe: Not instrinsically bad AFAIK, but this specific version and its variations started a lot more recently (2016) than the original Pepe and its variants ✅
Weird/"rare" Pepes: Extremely meta and also out of date. Do people even still post these?
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I feel like Pepe has redeemed himself in recent years. At the very least I find it easy to differentiate between the food and bad.
Of course, it was only an issue to people who just found out about his existence when Spencer got punched in the face.
Pepe has been absolutely massive on twitch for years before that happened.
Pepe has been absolutely massive on twitch for years before that happened.
It's mostly used by zoomers now anyway. Personally I don't think it ever even took off with the alt right besides a very short period of time where alt right people tried to co-opt it
Have they really done that though? Vs just making it easier for alt-right chuds on twitch to use?
Basically this. I don't let them take away my own enjoyment of things, they'll move on to something else anyway.
Yep.
If the creator hadn't said anything it would forever be gone, but I refuse to let alt-right assholes have the power to appropriate anything they fucking want when the person who made it is fighting back.
Yes.
Edit: Even GamesDoneQuick (which tries to keep Twitch chat as clean as possible) allows the use of Pepe emotes.
Edit: Even GamesDoneQuick (which tries to keep Twitch chat as clean as possible) allows the use of Pepe emotes.
This too, yes. FeelsGoodMan.
This, I avoid.
I don't use it because I don't want to be confused for a neo-Nazi. I know most people using it don't realize it's been appropriated, so no judgment on the people who do use it.
God no.
People using it is making it easier for people chuckle fuck chuds to use it as their alt-right dogwhistle. Twitch didn't take it back, it's just literally filled with chuds.
People using it is making it easier for people chuckle fuck chuds to use it as their alt-right dogwhistle. Twitch didn't take it back, it's just literally filled with chuds.
I think it's starting to, but maybe not fully yet. I've seen it on enough zoomer stuff at this point. But as always context is the most important.
I'm never going to use but I also don't assume the worst of people using it in casual context.
At places like work though, GTFO doesn't belong there anymore.
At places like work though, GTFO doesn't belong there anymore.
It's most certainly a Twitch thing at this point. I can't recall the last time I saw Pepe used in a hateful manner. Granted, I don't spend time on alt-right platforms.
it's so prevalent on twitch that there's really not much to be done if you can't disassociate it from nazis
Pepe has been back ever since it has blown up on Twitch.
Pepe has way too many good emotes to let it be taken away by the alt-right
Pepe has way too many good emotes to let it be taken away by the alt-right
That's why I was asking I seems to be used on Twitch all the time even in progressive channels.
It's basically a QAnon mascot now. Lots of folks have it as an avatar in those alt-right social media sites/forums.
