What's The Point?

This article describes how "Pepe the frog" memes went from sending harmless messages of the lazy college bro to becoming the go-to meme for grifters and alt-righters. The internet has definitely democratized communication, not all in good ways.

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• Pepe the Frog is a character that was originally created by Matt Furie in his comic strip, Boy’s Club. Pepe first emerged around on MySpace around 2005 as a harmless character, but spread through person-to-person dissemination and evolved into an anti-semitic symbol used by the alt right to harass Jewish journalist.
• The ADL declared Pepe the Frog a hate symbol
• The UN cannot stop Pepe because he is a media symbol and that would be banning freedom of expression (Article 19 of ICCPR) and right to political opinion (Article 2 of UDHR)

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