Thanks Matt. Can you kill off Donald Trump Jr next?
The alt-right - steadfastly supporting the intellectual rights of creators except when they don’t.
Furie launched a valiant effort during the 2016 campaign to #SavePepe from the negative attention the racist memes had brought the character.
He did? I’d never heard of him or Pepe before so I wasn’t exactly following closely, but in the one interview I saw, he said he didn’t mind because “it was for everybody” or words to that effect.
It’s the part where his drawings of his characters are two dimensional, crude and generally kinda repulsive that made him a perfect fit with the 4-Chan Nazis.
For everybody, huh? I’m sure Furie will bring it back for a Pepe LePew movie that’s in the works. Synergy and multi-level marketing scams!
Get Shorty.
Kermit was unable to make the funeral but did send a nice bag of dicks.
Miss Piggy is still looking for her bag of dicks.
(Hangs head in shame for snarking a beloved muppet)
That’s what I recall as well. It was like he shrugged it off as if the cartoon being used by racists was no big deal.
I don’t think he thought Trump would win though and thought after the election things would go back to normal.
Sadly I believe that the Pepe image was so tainted and Matt had to kill it off.
Awwwww. Pepe committed suicide because he just could not live with himself and what he had come to represent. Sad!
Of course this will not stop the racists, neo-Nazis and so on from continuing to use this image. It just means they successfully stole the image and made it their own.
I don’t blame the cartoonist for pulling the plug and no longer using the image himself. Though I think it would have been even better if he kept the character, created a storyline for how the poor frog got his head run over by a bicycle and how that brain damage turned him into a raving white supremacist, and then proceeded to make him the butt of a zillion anti-Trumper, anti-“alt-right” jokes.