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Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google by neartheplain on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:46PM (#26917238)
It's worth noting that the Pepe meme has continued to evolve, and is no longer associated solely or primarily with 4chan. The streamer community in particular has adopted, rehabiliated, and popularized Pepe as a mascot and chat emote. For example, here's Pepe and the "poggers" meme in a recent stream from Pokimane, a streamer with over 7 million followers who made Forbes' 2021 30 under 30 list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETBUJkVMnpc&t=70s

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Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google by Ataraxy on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:48PM (#26917259)
It was a big thing on Twitch long before any of the negative associations were made with it via media.
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Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google by throwaway3699 on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:09PM (#26917472)
Yup. The GPs viewpoint could only have been discovered without firsthand knowledge of the situation.
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Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google by watwut on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:25PM (#26918237)
The original author of Pepe put some work into deassociating it from Pepe The Meme. He hated the while thing.
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Re:4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google by cl0ne on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:05PM (#26918630)
Yeah, I talked with Matt about it at a party around the time he was going into lawsuits with Alex Jones and some alt-right people. He's a really nice dude. He hadn't been very familiar with 4chan before Pepe became a meme and was bummed that Pepe was being branded a hate symbol since he's writing children's books now. #savepepe
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