[jimbob45]

> There is a huge misunderstanding, Pepe the Frog has always been a symbol of resistance in underground culture, it was journalists who decided it was evil without understanding a damn thing.

It’s not a symbol of resistance. It’s a glum-looking frog. That’s it.

Also this forum doesn’t seem to allow for identifying oneself which precludes it from competing with Parler/Twitter. At best, it can compete with 4ch/8kun but those serve their (admittedly limited) purpose quite well with few complaints these days.

[belimawr]

First time hearing Pepe as a symbol of resistance. Saw it first as "Feels good man" before it turned into edgy alt-right symbol.

[nerdponx]

4chan was always kind of the "home" of Pepe memes, so it was kind of natural that the racists, incels, and other "alt-right" denizens of 4chan made (and still make) extensive use of Pepe and consider it "their own" to some extent. But the whole thing about specifically making Pepe into an alt-right symbol was just some shit they stirred up to "troll" the media. It worked, and the stigma stuck.

A lot of Pepe memes also ended up becoming Twitch emotes through BetterTwitchTV and FrankerFaceZ. And a lot of those emotes found their way into Discord chatrooms. In Discord, you can usually tell whether someone is an alt-right person or not by what Pepe emotes they use.