Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads
by newaccount3574 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:34AM
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> being very frequently photoshopped with 3rd reich / swastikas / other neo-nazi logos.
Your samples are biased there. If you are already looking at alt-right tweets then obviously you will see more trump- and nazi-related pepes.
If you look anywhere else then pepe is just another highly versatile meme.
/pol/ also shopped MAGA cap onto various anime characters. Momiji inubashiri being particularly popular, probably because she already wears a red hat in her canonical design. Does that mean those anime characters themselves symbolize hate or even conservatism? I think not.
It just means that outside observers are not familiar with memetic mutation.
Your samples are biased there. If you are already looking at alt-right tweets then obviously you will see more trump- and nazi-related pepes.
If you look anywhere else then pepe is just another highly versatile meme.
/pol/ also shopped MAGA cap onto various anime characters. Momiji inubashiri being particularly popular, probably because she already wears a red hat in her canonical design. Does that mean those anime characters themselves symbolize hate or even conservatism? I think not.
It just means that outside observers are not familiar with memetic mutation.