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Pepe is dead. His creator killed him because of all the far right memes he was used in.
Just stop.
fuck the far right they can't take pepe from us. Don't let them walk all over you
Pepe is like water. Everyone drinks water.
Everyone drinking water has died. Coincide? I think not.
Pepe is evil. Don't drink Pepe.
i did not know walkable cities was a far right movement. wow. you learn something new everyday i guess
walkable cities are not a far right movement.
you just said it was. because of Pepe. are u messing with me?
No no u dont understand. Once the bad people have used a meme, the good people aren't allowed to use it anymore!
I know you're being sarcastic, but I just absolutely despise that mentality. People seriously think that it's best to just roll over to the side and surrender every symbol the nazis want for themselves?
Yes I was being sarcastic, and I agree with you 100%. The problem is that they start using these symbols and memes as a kind of dog whistle and then people catch on and anyone using them is immediately sus. We're not just rolling over and letting them take them, they are taking them by force.
that concept is effectively just the heckler's veto, and indeed it fucking sucks.
If we let people continously ruin words and symbols such that we stop using them, they get to decide what words and symbols we use, and have a tool to shape discourse to their favour.
As a swede, i do not much like the idea of going "welp, nazis used viking imagery, we have to ban runes now", i don't want nazis to be able to merrily wipe out the last traces of our past culture.
Semiotics is such a fascinating study. The true power of language is astonishing, and I don't mean marketing. We live our lives in language. LLM's are going to change the relationship between the planes of content and expression so much that we're forced back to first principles. It's a bit surreal understanding this, and watching everyone argue over jobs and copyright.
this sounds a lot like nonsense techbro talk
it's not like made up text is anything new, people have been running misinformation and propaganda campaigns for years and years, just using worse technology and more manual intervention. The only real difference is that it can be basically wholly automated at this point, which isn't nothing but i profoundly doubt it'll be some massive revolution.
Not to be a dick, but just because you don't understand it doesn't make it nonsense. I was well into semiotics before "tech bro" was a thing people say. Did you have a question?
They did do a number on the swastika, in fairness.
Ok sure, but hindus still don't let that bother them.
Man the whole "pepe is right wing" thing was huge like 4 years ago, now I literally only ever see it mentioned by people like you. It's a drawing of a frog, if you don't like it then hide the post.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
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If the creator "killed him", then why are there official plushies being sold? The description even denounces the right wing coop of the meme. There's even a documentary explaining the retaking of the meme.