Editing Pepe

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[[File:Pepe.jpg|alt=pepe|thumb|Pepe the Frog]]
'''Pepe the Frog''' is a green frog that comes from the webcomic ''Boys Club''. Which was created by the infamous right-wing cartoonist Matt Furie. Pepe has become a meme and a common self-insert on [[4chan]], and is most commonly used on the board [[Qa2|/qa2/]]. The frog is also hated by weabs, soicucks, demonrats, and kikes. They often seethe when one is posted.

== History ==
Pepe the Frog was created by American right-wing artist and cartoonist Matt Furie in 2005. Its usage as an Internet meme came from his comic ''Boy's Club'' #1. The progenitor of ''Boy's Club'' was a zine Furie made on Microsoft Paint called ''Playtime'', which included Pepe as a character. He posted his comic in a series of blog posts on Myspace in 2005.

In the comic, Pepe is seen urinating with his pants pulled down to his ankles and the catchphrase "feels good man" was his rationale. Furie took those posts down when the printed edition was published in 2006.

Pepe was used in blog posts on Myspace in 2005 and became an in-joke on Gaia Online. In 2008, the page containing Pepe and the catchphrase was scanned and uploaded to 4chan's /b/ board, which has been described as the meme's "permanent home".

The meme took off among 4chan users, who adapted Pepe's face and catchphrase to fit different scenarios and emotions, such as melancholy, anger, and surprise. "Feels bad, man", a sad variant of the frog's "feels good, man" catchphrase, also became associated with Pepe. Color was also added; originally a black-and-white line drawing, Pepe became green with brown lips, sometimes in a blue shirt. "Feels Guy", or "Wojak", originally an unrelated character typically used to express melancholy, was eventually often paired with Pepe in user-made comics or images.

The "sad frog" variation entered usage on Tumblr by 2012. That same year, the "Smug Pepe" variant emerged. Versions of the meme appeared on Chinese social media, such as Baidu Tieba, as early as 2014. There, it has been known as ''shangxin qingwa'' (傷心青蛙), or "sad frog". In 2014, images of Pepe were shared on social media by celebrities such as Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj. As Pepe became more widespread, 4chan users began referring to particularly creative and unique variants of the meme as "rare Pepes". These images, sometimes as physical paintings, were sold on eBay and posted on Craigslist. 4chan users referred to those who used the meme outside the website as "normies" (or "normalfags"). Users from 4chan, Reddit, and elsewhere attempted to prevent mainstream usage of the meme by "making Pepe as shocking as possible".

== Use by Donald Trump ==
Donald Trump is regarded as pepe's biggest fan. He has posted the frog many times,<ref>https://archive.ph/yQF6D</ref> even making some himself. People often create kino fan art of him as pepe.
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== Anti-Mossad Strips ==
[[File:Pepe strips.jpg|thumb|kek, its kino]]
The most common image of pepe has 2 lines on the very left side of its eye. These were put there by president [[Donald Trump]] to combat Mossad's mass datamining operation. The strips exploit a bug in Mossad's AI image interpreter software that causes it to malfunction when the strips are present. It has sometimes even been reported to shutdown Mossad's entire network. Theses malfunctions often cause around 6 million shekels of damage each, and has been argued as the most effective form of cyber warfare in history. Mossad has still not fixed this issue, so /qa2/triots are encourage to exploit this bug as much as possible.

=== Misinformation About the Strips ===
Many of those that support ZOG have found out about this, so {{They|(((they)))}} claim that these strips datamine people. The imageboard [[soyjak.party]] has even gone as far as to outright hashban the image of the frog.

=== Use During the October 7th Attack ===
On the 4chan board [[Qa2|/qa2/ - Business Inquires]], a /qa2/triot created a thread proposing an idea to spam anti-Mossad pepes in collaboration with Hamas to attack Israel without {{They|(((them)))}} noticing. The thread was a success, and a /qa2/triot was able to contact Hamas to coordinate the attack.  On October 7th, 2023, over 4,524,643,865 frogs were posted all across the internet, causing the entire country of Israel to shutdown. During the blackout, Hamas began their attack by launching 4,300 rockets into Israel. Hamas fighters later breached the Gaza–Israel barrier, and stormed the fake country while completely evading detection. They were able to massacre kikes in 21 communities. Killing a total of over a thousand kikes; making us ever so closer to achieve TKD (total kike death).

== Citations ==
[[Category:Memes]]
[[Category:Notables]]