I Cast Fist@programming.dev to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agoIt's kinda amazing that wojack/soyjack and pepe memes have endured as long as they have, rage faces were already on their way out when they were this oldmessage-squaremessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down13
arrow-up1102arrow-down1message-squareIt's kinda amazing that wojack/soyjack and pepe memes have endured as long as they have, rage faces were already on their way out when they were this oldI Cast Fist@programming.dev to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squarered_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·3 days agoIt’s amazing what a journey Pepe has taken. From being associated with the 2015 MAGA movement to being a symbol of 2019 Hong Kong protests. I thought the associations with the alt right movement would’ve killed Pepe as a meme, but he managed to wash those bad associations away.
minus-squareIronBird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agothere was a whole “pepe is for everyone” campaign, that was successful imo only the most terminally online leftist would have negitive connotatioms about pepe
It’s amazing what a journey Pepe has taken. From being associated with the 2015 MAGA movement to being a symbol of 2019 Hong Kong protests.
I thought the associations with the alt right movement would’ve killed Pepe as a meme, but he managed to wash those bad associations away.
there was a whole “pepe is for everyone” campaign, that was successful imo
only the most terminally online leftist would have negitive connotatioms about pepe