• 0 Posts
  • 16 Comments
Joined 2 months ago
cake
Cake day: July 9th, 2026

help-circle


  • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldhonk honk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    12 days ago

    I wasn’t on /pol/, that’s right. I preferred to watch war videos on live leak without any comments on.

    Pepe was bloody everywhere, acting like your corner of the internet was special in that regard is just lacking perspective. Memes spread through internet spaces, terminally online people interact with a slew of other terminally online people. Which then spread any funny or cool idea on to others.

    Normie’s aka mainstream media just didn’t interact with pepe before they started reporting on events happening on /pol/. And coined it a 4chan exclusive, because they didn’t care about any other corner online



  • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldhonk honk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    13 days ago

    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

    I honestly think it’s a perspective of age, I don’t recall ever seeing it being dropped. Despite mostly being active in queer friendly areas of the internet.

    But I recon age might have a factor, as everyone has seen Pepe used for all sorts of things before gamergate became a thing. Whilst communities based on younger individuals, might have taken other stances





  • I’m honestly not too sure how Myspace and Neopets operate(d).

    But in Denmark we have Arto, as the first “open” social media platform. Which featured custom HTML and all that jazz.

    It was fun as a kid, it went out of fashion way before we all suddenly needed to get a Facebook. We had full on years, without that kind of social media. Like we all played flash games on kongregate and online MMOs like Mafia family and travian. But games like those, really spread through word of mouth.