this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we're slowly taking Pepe back we can do the same with Doge.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait what happened to pepe? What are we taking it back from? (I'm an avid pepe user)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

4chan and their offshoot nazi spaces. It's not entirely apropriated by them but it's incredibly popular, there were shitholes like r/frenworld which sit all day and made fascist dogwhistles with pepe and clowns (and clown pepes).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I remember that but I thought that was like in 2017 or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah they are still on it, just 3 day ago i encountered one of them here on lemmy, and i'm not even active here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That is unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There's a documentary about it from 2020 that is quite the watch.