Basically Kirk was MAGA, the shooter was from a group called ‘groypers’ led by Nick Fuentes. There’s an online meme ‘persona’ of sorts called Pepe, who I guess the groypers use as a mascot. Which is a shame as some of the Pepe content is pretty awesome. It’s the punisher skull shit all over again. Anyway, infighting between facist groups, groypers being the more extreme far right group, which I didn’t think was possible but here we are.
It’s so true. Conservatives are so uncreative that they miss the most basic elements of storytelling that most of us grasp as children.
They haven’t made anything creative of their own since the swastika, and even that was stolen from Hindus. All they do is take take take, and then ruin everything they fucking touch.
Honestly you’re not alone. This is the first I’ve heard to any extent that Pepe was used by racists at all. I’ve seen some pretty heartfelt animations using the likeness and no hint to any extent that racism was somehow attached to it.
Basically Kirk was MAGA, the shooter was from a group called ‘groypers’ led by Nick Fuentes. There’s an online meme ‘persona’ of sorts called Pepe, who I guess the groypers use as a mascot. Which is a shame as some of the Pepe content is pretty awesome. It’s the punisher skull shit all over again. Anyway, infighting between facist groups, groypers being the more extreme far right group, which I didn’t think was possible but here we are.
It’s so true. Conservatives are so uncreative that they miss the most basic elements of storytelling that most of us grasp as children.
They haven’t made anything creative of their own since the swastika, and even that was stolen from Hindus. All they do is take take take, and then ruin everything they fucking touch.
They adopted Pepe?
That’s a shame. It was a good meme there for a while. I had no idea that it was being tied to racist bullshit.
Thanks for the heads up. I guess I can’t use that meme anymore. I don’t want to be associated with these chuckle fucks.
Yeah there’s a documentary about the guy who created pepe and how he hates that it’s been co-opted by awful people. I forget what it’s called.
Seriously? For like 15 years, you’ve only seen pepes posted by people who don’t mind being mistaken for a racist.
I never made the association. Idk. Maybe I haven’t been looking carefully enough.
To be fair, I don’t seem to encounter a lot of racists, because I usually actively avoid them, and I also really haven’t used Pepe very much either.
There’s no lack of memes to replace Pepe, so I’m mostly unbothered by all of this.
I’ve been on the Internet too long to bother with every nuance of everything that’s going on. There’s way too much on here for me to care.
Honestly you’re not alone. This is the first I’ve heard to any extent that Pepe was used by racists at all. I’ve seen some pretty heartfelt animations using the likeness and no hint to any extent that racism was somehow attached to it.