Don’t let Doge end up like Pepe!

  • unexposedhazard
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    8 days ago

    Nothing except for that really. People just like to twist reality like

    Pepe > 4chan > known for weirdos = Using Pepe means you are a literal Nazi

    Nevermind the fact that half the fucking internet was using pepes in completely innocent ways.

    The core of the problem is/was the ADL (Anti Defamation League) which likes to pretend they have the authority to proclaim anything and everything as a hatespeech symbol because like 7 people used it in a racist context.

    With the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict they have lost basically all credibility and are now considered an unreliable source by Wikipedia editors.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      7 days ago

      It wasn’t pepe by itself, it was the clown pepe which was widely used in twitter and the like, before it became a fascist shithole.

      • thallamabond@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        7 days ago

        Also reddit, r/frenworld, r/clownworld, r/honkler, and the dozens of subs created for ban evasion.

        Super racist, sometimes thinly veiled.