Like, seeing it in original context, it neither screams "Nazi" nor "having enough aesthetic value for Nazis to bother appropriating"
Like, seeing it in original context, it neither screams "Nazi" nor "having enough aesthetic value for Nazis to bother appropriating"
Here's a TL;DR timeline
Pepe is already prevalent 4Chan culture
Pepe begins to broaden it's horizons and is adopted into general meme culture
Pepe is adopted in many ways, including the innocuous and the racist
2016 election is afoot, online trolling enters the discourse, 4Chan is thrusted into the hotseat
Various anti-hate organizations associated closely with Hillary Clinton see Pepe and the 👌 symbol and classify it as white suprem. symbols
4Chan decides to own it up and start making explicitly racist memes and materials after the media hit, and the rest is history
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