Has anyone ever heard of this comic before Pepe became a meme?

>>91720664
Yeah? It was all over /b) about a decade (more? God help us) ago.

>>91720664
I didn't hear about it till after he evolved into kek

>>91720664
Why'd the others never get memed, /co/?

Pepe became a meme because of the comic, nothing else.

>>91720771
A couple reaction images of pepe became popular, the rest follows from there.

I'm literally only talking about two specific reaction images, feelsgoodman and sadfrog. Everything that came after is just edits.

It was popular on /co/, that's why it became a thing. Before he was Pepe, he was the Feels Good, Man frog.

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I feel really bad for Matt Furie. A bastardized version of one of his characters that barely even resembles the character at this point but uses the same meme becamed labeled by the government as a literal white supremacist hate symbol, to the point where posting him anywhere gets you automatically called a Nazi.

>>91720904
>same meme

Oops, I meant to say same name*

I think if they used a different name like "meme frog" or something then it would be fine because it barely resembles the original anyway, but the fact that it uses the name Pepe really drags the comic and his creator through the mud.

>>91720926
I nominate "memefrog" as Pepe's new name. Who's with me on this?

Yes, boy's club was scanned and posted on /co/ years ago along with another indie comic, Multiforce which also spawned a meme in skeleton jelly
I wish posting obscure zines was still a thing on here

>>91720904
Wait the Nazi symbol thing was real? Are you kidding me? You gotta be, why would they do this for what purpose? It's just an edited frog what he fuck

>>91720963
I'll continue to call him Reddit-Ribbit.

>>91720904
>labeled by the government

It wasn't labelled that by the government, you moron. It was by an independent organization. It's not illegal to post a pepe or something, just a dumb move considering what /pol/ and /r9k/ have done to his image over the years.

>>91720991
Nothing to do with Reddit.

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>>91720904
>tfw normies associate pepe with nazis

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>>91720904
Now why would anyone choose a green frog to represent white supremacy?

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>>91721067
Reddit uses it a lot - IIRC they have an entire board for it - and I don't like seeing it. So I'm hoping to associate it with the site so I see less of it. Like how rage faces saw a sharp decline when normalfags on reddit and facebook found them.

>>91721163
Because the french are white, smug, and arrogant, obviously.

>>91721254
It's weird to me that 4chan dropped rage faces at the drop of a hat as soon as Facebook and reddit started using them, but when the same thing happened to Pepe, they actually posted him even more. I'm still seeing new versions of that fucking frog even to this day.

>>91721003

It even says in the hate symbol assessment that it's a meme with often no hateful meaning or intent, and had a long and complicated history, the whole moral panic of "it's a hate symbol now and forever" has more to do with sensationalist journalism than to do with it being designated a hate symbol. There are hate symbols that are used commercially with no issue because people accept they have many meanings, like the iron cross, lightning bolts, and pinwheels.

>>91720904
I find this thing hilarious desu.
The MSM is so stupid that they think a skirt featuring frogs wearing swimming goggles is racist. How long till they call actual frogs racist? They'd probably go ape shit if a little boy named his frog Pepe.

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Forgot picture

>>91721318
I think it's because they see pepe as more than a joke for some stupid reason.
Like, Rage comics, those were for a laugh, and when normalfags caught on, people just went, "well, it's dead now, onto the next joke." But I think people are taking a meme seriously, ruining its humor and being damn irritating.

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>>91721366
Hey, I've seen that guy on TV!

>>91721101
It was done on purpose you mong

>>91720847
you bitch /co/ was made in 2012

I can't keep up with the memes anymore. It used to be that Pepe was "feels good, man" now Pepe and "cuck" are used by assholes no one should want to associate with. It's fucking Bronyfags all over again. Hideo Kojima warned us about this shit.

I always get mad when big companies like Disney go after little people for seemingly innocuous offenses like Mickey Mouse ears. But then I think of Pepe which is the perfect example of how not protecting your intellectual property can turn it into fucking shit.

Like if Disney didn't care Mickey Mouse would be some political workers symbol or something because he works shit jobs and scrapes by.

>>91722292
property rights 3rd best rights

>>91722292
This reminds me of the Calvin pissing on things decal. How was that allowed to happen?

>>91720987
going to a zine con in a few days, I'll see what I can find...

>wanted to read the comics back in 2008
>it was a "pay me and I will mail them to you"

Wonder if there was a digital option now.

>>91721328
>>91721003

I love how you're both conveniently failing to mention that the "independent organization is the "Anti-Defamation League", a Jewish supremacist organization.

>>91723346
https://m.comixology.com/Boys-Club/digital-comic/358184 Yes even drm free back up.

>>91721101
This gets you upset...why?

/pol/ did what /r9k/ couldn't and took Pepe home.

>>91722292
There was nothing he could have done. 4chan simply doesn't care about that stuff, period.
If he had tried to brute force things with a DMCA the ensuing shitstorm would have destroyed his career altogether.

>>91722194

I remember reading Final Crisis with /co/. That was 2008.

>>91723471
This
There was pretty much nothing he could do.

>>91722292
I think that does explain why older people get so confused over this. They're used to corporate-owned characters whose images are kept squeaky clean. They're not used to the idea of a character who effectively isn't owned by anyone and can be used for anything.

>>91723346
It's digital and has a real book release from Fantagraphics

>>91723999
Plus, I'm sure he secretly appreciates the widespread awareness it has given his comic. Most normies had never heard of it at all before Pepe exploded into the mainstream.

>>91722194
/co/ was created in 2006

>>91725163
Because of the popularity of ATLA iirc, /co/ was literally a containment board

>>91725276
Oh fuck, sauce on this?

>>91720718
fuck off

>>91720990

Because dick wads who take pol seriously ruined it. Now there's French right wingers using it as part of their attacks. It's taken on a new life outside the US/UK Internet culture. It's kind of surreal.

Kind of like how the swastika used to just be an Asian symbol for good luck and shit before Hitler and a bunch of skinhead assholes ruined it outside Asia.

Or 420 was just a number before potheads got a hold of it.

>>91720904
>implying anyone would even know this fag's name without 4chan

this was the best thing to ever happen to him

>>91723165

Because the creator was so concerned about being a sellout that he never sold the rights of his IP to anyone so there was never a reason for any big company to give a damn enough to hire lawyers to protect their financial interests.

>>91725276

No co was because people on other Japanese boards were tired of western shit popping up.

Luke how ACO is an attempt to keep western art out of h and d and reduce the amount of smut in v and co and tg.

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>>91721055
y tho? Is it a methaphor for the pointelessness of life and it's inevedable end?