Wait, seriously?

This resonated strongly with the alt-right.

And it should be taken back, it has a beautiful history, and doesn't deserve to be owned by the scum of the earth.

Nazi's only really used one style of swatiska. It's not too hard to differentiate if you don't knee jerk. Any Hindu and Navajo person really only needs to avoid one specific style.

As far as I recall, the whole declaration that it was a hate symbol was pretty misinformed to begin with.

It was originally used by tons of people online, particularly by quite a lot of 4chan users. So it got mostly used for weird memes like ones about adult man children earning good boy points towards chicken tenders and being socially inept, and sometimes for weird alt-right bullshit.

Then during the horrid mess of GamerGate (which has direct ties to a handful of current rightwing grifters gaining popularity), at one point some rights advocacy group labelled it a hate symbol due to the association with GamerGate by way of 4chan. I mean sure, hateful movement, right? But they were using it like people use stick figures. In my opinion Pepe was more the medium than the message, and it wasn't so overwhelmingly used for hate like twitter/x that you could legitimately make the argument that it hands down was a dog whistle or only used by those who would tolerate the hateful views.

Then again, I was a heavy 4chan user many many years ago (dropped off during the scientology raids), so my point of view is probably skewed.

I get that for a while a lot of the internet stopped using it due to the negative associations and news articles citing the original claim by the advocacy group, but it makes me happy to see the awkward little frog being "reclaimed" for general use again.

From the original creator of the character.

From Boy’s Club comics to appropriated alt right symbol (WT actual F tho), Pepe has often been misunderstood.

That's why we work with his creator Matt Furie to make the only officially licensed Pepe toy out there. Feels good man.

Proceeds help Matt Furie fight Nazis

https://www.uncute.com/products/pepe-the-frog

Pretending Pepe wasn't a bigger proponent of Twitch culture is cope.

Pepe was just used by all terminally online people.

Because it's an internet meme, not because it's a nazi symbol. Pretending they owned it in any way is just stupid

Ooh is that over yet? I loved the OK gesture! It's better than thumbs-up because that can also mean "let's swim upwards" or "sit on my dick" in some contexts.