What does Pepe represent?

[rotting-alone]

I googled "pepe the frog meaning" and you see a bunch of shit how he's a "hate symbol" and used for the "alt-right" and Trump supporters. It was bullsht.

Pepe has been all over incel/loneliness culture for years. Long before Trump was even running. My question is: what does Pepe symbolize in internet culture?

He's all over r/ForeverAloneCucks, r/incels, 4Chan, and any other forums for lonely nerdy virgins.

 

[Weed]

Pepe is some fucking cartoon character. It means nothing.. sjw retards wanted to give it a meaning

 

[Deleted member 306]

Pepe represents agony, despair, innermost hate, envy, rage, dark thoughts.

 

[VLÖ]

/pol/ just made it popular, along with /r/the_donald

4chan has become´a full-normie shithole now.

 

[Red Shambhala]

By now, he is a far-right symbol and it's too late to still save him. Just let go of him like letting go of a friend at a funeral.

 

[Ryo_Hazuki]

/pol/ just made it popular, along with /r/the_donald

4chan has become´a full-normie shithole now.

Actually pepe was a meme on r9k before any other board.

It's just that pepe spread to other boards (including /pol/) and other image boards. Eventually some people on the alt-right started using pepe and that's when the mainstream media reported pepe to be a "hate symbol" that represented "white supremacy". Of course 99 percent of people who posted pepe memes had absolutely nothing to do with the alt-right but the mainstream media just doesn't understand internet culture (at least not that part of it) and they can't be bothered to research these things that extensively.

To answer OP's question, pepe was originally used in the same manner as wojak, typically to convey depression and sometimes anger. Over time it spread and there were so many variations made that it doesn't really "represent" anything anymore.

TL;DR it's just a meme, don't overthink it.

 

[VLÖ]

Actually pepe was a meme on r9k before any other board.

It's just that pepe spread to other boards (including /pol/) and other image boards.  Eventually some people on the alt-right started using pepe and that's when the mainstream media reported pepe to be a "hate symbol"  that represented "white supremacy".  Of course 99 percent of people who posted pepe memes had absolutely nothing to do with the alt-right but the mainstream media just doesn't understand internet culture (at least not that part of it) and they can't be bothered to research these things that extensively.  

To answer OP's question, pepe was originally used in the same manner as wojak, typically to convey depression and sometimes anger.  Over time it spread and there were so many variations made that it doesn't really "represent" anything anymore.  

TL;DR it's just a meme, don't overthink it.

Yeah, I just meant that /pol/ made it more mainstream with the Trump campaign. Ironically though /pol/ is less normie infested than /r9k/.

 

[rotting-alone]

Perhaps I should have phrased my question: Why do YOU use Pepe in your avatar, signatures, memes, etc.

What does he represent TO YOU? And why?

 

[grayjedi90]

Pepe was a cartoon character that became a meme. Then the meme got out of hand and was used for almost everything.

 

[Deleted member 56]

Pepe is some fucking cartoon character. It means nothing.. sjw retards wanted to give it a meaning

 

[Red Shambhala]

At first I wrote that he has been taken over by the far-right and that he can't be saved anymore, that we just have to let go because we can't save him out of the hands of the far-right anymore. Then I deleted my own post, tho, because I don't really see him as a far-right symbol. I mean, I still have many pepes on my pc, there are people using pepe as avatar here, my first reaction is to look for a pepe when I feel like adding a reaction imagine. And I don't associate anything of that with right-wing beliefs. Pepe is just Pepe. It's mostly likely that he will get old eventually and people stop using him. Every meme dies eventually and something new comes up.

 

[Grotesque]

Actually pepe was a meme on r9k before any other board.

It's just that pepe spread to other boards (including /pol/) and other image boards.  Eventually some people on the alt-right started using pepe and that's when the mainstream media reported pepe to be a "hate symbol"  that represented "white supremacy".  Of course 99 percent of people who posted pepe memes had absolutely nothing to do with the alt-right but the mainstream media just doesn't understand internet culture (at least not that part of it) and they can't be bothered to research these things that extensively.  

To answer OP's question, pepe was originally used in the same manner as wojak, typically to convey depression and sometimes anger.  Over time it spread and there were so many variations made that it doesn't really "represent" anything anymore.  

TL;DR it's just a meme, don't overthink it.

This.

/r9k/ was originally a board for posting unique shitposts, and that's where the 'rare pepe' stuff started where posters would create whatever stupid variations of Pepe.

/r9k/ eventually became a board for 'robots' (essentially incels), and the depressed Pepe became their mascot that everyone overused.

Over time, /r9k/ became just an extension of /b/, and normalfags took over the Pepe image rendering it meaningless. Not that it had any meaning to begin with.

 

[AngelOfDisease]

Means "I am an edgy normie" at best.