Discussion: Cartoonist Kills Off ‘Pepe The Frog,’ Co-Opted Meme Of The Alt-Right

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Thanks Matt. Can you kill off Donald Trump Jr next?

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The alt-right - steadfastly supporting the intellectual rights of creators except when they don’t.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Kermit was unable to make the funeral but did send a nice bag of dicks.

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Miss Piggy is still looking for her bag of dicks.

(Hangs head in shame for snarking a beloved muppet)

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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.

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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.

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