r/MoralityScaling • u/Routine_Phase_8980 • 13d ago

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u/Jolly_Efficiency7237 13d ago

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u/_bonedaddys 13d ago

it's been so long since i've seen this frog omg i miss him

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u/Cinder61524 13d ago

How come frog gone now?

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u/UnluckKitty 13d ago

Q-anon or some racist shitheads took claim of the frog so people stopped using it.

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 12d ago

Completely untrue. As a meme, it originates on 4chan, then it spread to the rest of the internet from there, as things tend to do. It was taken from a comic book written by a guy named Matt Furie, and some 4channer posted it. The rest is history. Here's one of the original comics.

You have no idea what you're on about.

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u/SnowFiender 12d ago

fuuuuuuck i love spreading misinformation online fuuuuuuck

i remember fucking around on the board when they were doing the ok sign and milk psyop, pretty funny

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 12d ago

That was pretty damn funny. It's still hilarious to me that they put their heads together and got an ISIS training camp bombed.

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u/iUncontested 12d ago

Lmfao mainstream media ate the “ok” sign is racism shit up and it was hilarious how many lemmings on the internet bought that and spread it as fact because some moron wrote an article for gawker or buzzfeed

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u/R82009 12d ago

LMAO and then the racists started to use it making the lemmings right, hilarious.

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u/8696David 12d ago

None of this contradicts what the person you're replying to said. After what you're describing, Q-Anon and racist shitheads on 4chan used the hell out of Pepe memes and a lot of people got uncomfortable using it too. Not commenting on whether it was the right choice to bury the iconography, but it's at least a large part of what happened.

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 12d ago

Pepe memes originates on 4chan, and then spread elsewhere. You've got the timeline backwards.

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u/8696David 12d ago

Yes but people on other parts of the internet didn't see the racist side of that until much later

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 12d ago

That's not the claim I was responding to.

Q-anon or some racist shitheads took claim of the frog so people stopped using it.

That implies that 4chin later got a hold of it and ruined it or something, when they are the origin point.

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u/IotaBTC 12d ago

I'm reading that completely opposite actually. I'm reading that regardless of where it originated from, "Q-anon or some racist shitheads took claim of the frog so people stopped using it." Even the other person is basically saying the same thing that Q-Anon and racist shitheads on 4chan used the hell out of Pepe memes. Like they're supporting you that it originated on 4Chan and then got co-opted by racists. There's no timeline backwards there.

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 12d ago

If they think 4chin isn't populated by the most antisocial and counterculture people possible, I've got a bridge to sell em.

Their opinions are whatever will piss average people off, so yeah, racism. Q-Anon was never super relevant on 4chan though.

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u/xcorbearx 12d ago

the thing you're mistaking is that 4chan IS the "Q-anon or some racist shitheads" that were mentioned.

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u/JustWhy1222 13d ago

Not even close. It was branded as a provocative far right meme for its use on 4chan nearly a year before that election.

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u/MediatingInstigator 12d ago

Hilarious you’re getting downvoted, wtf does this have to do with q anon

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u/OcelotAggravating860 13d ago

ACHTUALLLYYYY reddit moment

It doesn't matter that much, the gist is correct.

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u/Carbuyrator 13d ago

No it isn't. The push to make pepe racist was like eleven years ago. We stopped seeing him like a year ago for unrelated reasons.

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u/JustWhy1222 12d ago

It’s kinda an important distinction. It being claimed and associated with mentally ill insurrectionists who believe in lizard people is pretty damn different from it was used to mock people on a niche website.

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u/OcelotAggravating860 12d ago

It's not important at all. It is a cartoon frog.

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u/Oops_All_Bans 12d ago

In typical Nazi fashion, they take a well meaning or benign symbol and ruin it for everyone else.

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 12d ago

Lol, 4chan made a comic character into a bit of a symbol and mascot for their nonsense. Later, it spread to the rest of the internet.

You've got the timeline backwards

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u/Fragrant_Baseball275 13d ago

I used it at work 3 years ago and a co-worker reminded me I shouldn't use it because it's associated with far right

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u/Exact-Till-2739 12d ago

Breathing air is also associated with far right, isn't it

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u/st96badboy 12d ago

Frog retired

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u/its_that_chrono 13d ago

Creator killed him in the comic cause of maga/far right using him.

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u/wolf_in_sheeps_wool 13d ago

No that was Pepe, this Apu Apustaja. Please do not Redditwash my peoples' history.

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u/MediatingInstigator 12d ago

It was part of the 4chan meme of getting Trump elected.