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[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 111 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If I'm following correctly...

Pepe was coopted by the far right in 2016 or so for annoying political shitposts. It was sad because pepe is a great meme and the value of my rare and super-rare foil pepe collection plummeted immediately afterwards.

Now there are stories and photos going around of people dressed in big inflatable frog suits protesting against ICE in Portland and I guess it's become the symbol of a movement. Frogs are cool again.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was never onboard with giving pepe to the Nazis. Pepe transcends.

[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 28 points 1 month ago

no one was. I had like half a gig of rare pepes

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I might have to change my username soon.

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like you came to the wrong frog fight!

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

But I created this wanting to fight Pepes ::insert sad pepe face::

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 53 points 1 month ago

I have also been seeing a lot of very nice MILF shirts in all different colours getting around in my part of Australia.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Can confirm, there were many inflatable frog people, frog signs, Kermit the frog puppets and just people in head to to green at the protest in SF Bay Area today.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok so the post is misleading because those frog costumes and related memery are not pepe references

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well yes, technically. But does that mean we should pass up this golden opportunity to reclaim a meme icon nobody ever really stopped using in the first place?

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah i mean worse things have been done on the grounds of fabricated connections. Just don't invade Iraq or whatever.

It's just jarring and feels like engagement bait when it's so clearly not the same thing.