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If someone wanted to get a synopsis of the gamer gate issue, where would you find it?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy

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Dumb yelling out something only a few people would understand. Might as well go yell 87, fo, or beans no beans.

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Best explanation so far.

I'll also add that Hillary believes this "troll' internet is a part of the "Alt-right" movement. Which would include 4chan in this wide net of "racism and bigotry" she claims to be fighting agaisnt.

When in all reality 4chan is just a cesspool of weaponized autism and leans no particular way. Plenty of Bernie supporters and CTR shills are contributors to 4chan as well. Just happens that a good amount are trump supporters.

So, leading up to this "monumental" speech, she was hinting it would be attacking people who "draw racist frogs on the internet" or some other blabber. Which turned into "nazi frog pictures".

Basically she was trying to tie Trump to the far right then internet trolls, then to the "Alt-right", then to the KKK. Which completely backfired since right as she was getting to the juice, so to say, one of those racist trolls yelled out a battle cry. Akin to the Brave heart speech.

It was glorious.

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Pepe needs to become the allahu snackbar cry of Clinton rallies.

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That's the point.  It doesn't make any sense.   It WAS merely a big inside joke on the Internet, primarily on 4chan (like "Fo time" or "87" is used here), until Hillary accidentally made it into something else.  Here's how.


Pepe used to be merely one meme (among many) for a loose Internet-based, anti-Hillary, anti-establishment, somewhat-pro-Trump movement that communicates primarily via social media.  Picture is worth 1000 words, so a picture with a caption photoshopped onto it (called a "dank meme") is the most efficient way to communicate a concept.  We do that all the time here on Arfcom, and some pictures don't even need a caption to make their point.

Pepe was fun because it could be used in a lot of ways.  One way was to draw Pepe to look like Trump, including the hair and suit so he would be immediately recognizable as Trump.  Some people used it as an anti-Trump symbol, but over time it became more of a pro-Trump symbol -- or at least an anti-Hillary and anti-Establishment symbol.

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Hillary's campaign allegedly found some Pepe pictures online where "white nationalists" had put racist and/or pro-Nazi symbols on Pepe.  She wanted to play it like Pepe was the darling child of both the Neo-Nazi movement AND Trump supporters.  In their mind, that would allow Hillary to connect the dots like this "Trump---Trump Supporters---Pepe---Neo-Nazis", hoping that the American public would be stupid enough to only take away this message:  "Trump=Neo-Nazis."

Remember, Hillary is a disciple of Saul Alinsky and his book "Rules for Radicals."  One of those rules is:



So, working under that rule, Hillary picked a target (that loose anti-Hillary, anti-establishment, somewhat-pro-Trump movement), tried to freeze it by labeling that movement "the alt-right" (which was a pre-existing label not necessarily associated with Pepe), and tried to polarize it by associating that movement with Neo-Nazis in her speech.  This was preceded by a behind-the-scenes press campaign that tried personalize it by tying Trump, Pepe the green frog cartoon, and racism together under the label "the alt-right."

In hindsight, that sounds kind of over-the-top and silly.  And it was.  But they decided to roll with it anyway.  Probably because Hillary doesn't have any cards to play, other than "RACISM!"

It backfired.  

The reason it backfired is because, knowingly or not, the movement stole one of Alinsky's own Rules out of Hillary's playbook and turned it against her:



Hillary's whispering campaign of "Pepe is a symbol for racists who support Trump, therefore Trump supports racism" was openly ludicrous  to anyone who previously knew about Pepe.  It was also deeply offensive to those she labeled as "alt-right" and those who consider themselves to be "alt-right."  Plus, it's pretty damn offensive to  Trump supporters.

So, Pepe overnight went from being a silly multipurpose Internet meme into a rally point for the anti-Hillary movement.
The headline here says it all

The net result is that despite her efforts, all Hillary managed to accomplish was to:

(1) turn Pepe into the modern equivalent of a kid pointing and saying "the Emperor has no clothes!" and

(2) show the world that even with all her her political strength, political support, and ruthlessness, she still is unable to stop someone from completely mocking her at her own rally merely by shouting a single word.  She's helpless in the face of ridicule.

That part in bold is huge.  And the dude who shouted Pepe! was letting the world know "if you are anti-Hillary, then know that you are not alone, and you can fight back."  Lots of people need to be reminded of that during this election season.  

And what makes this all so hilariously funny is that she did it to herself!  She has to own it; she cannot pin it on Trump.  And now the whole goddamn Internet is talking about a crudely-drawn cartoon of a fucking green frog instead of Trump's alleged racism.

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I think I've probably over-analyzed it.  I'm sure someone will be along to summarize all of the above in one Pepe dank meme.

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No, it's more like "We are The Pepe!"

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This is gold. Pure gold. Something like this will be like the icebucket challenge and dudes will yell pepe at all hilary events. Hopefully video as well

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Ill be impressed when somebody yells Pepe every time she speaks.

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Ill be impressed when somebody yells Pepe every time she speaks.

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Dumb yelling out something only a few people would understand. Might as well go yell 87, fo, or beans no beans.

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Part of me wonders if Gamergate was the wakeup call for a lot of the internet freefolk, people who generally had little interest in politics to begin with.
I think it was a digital/ideological Pearl Harbor event -  SJWs and liberals weren't just those people who went after the "religious right" as a usual back and forth where "both sides are wrong" or some other throw away thinking shortcut would dictate.
It had come for them too. The morality police left runs their playbook on anyone who isn't a member of their church, or a designated victim group of theirs.

They woke up, and when the next political cycle happened, and the SJWs began the "ist/ism" accusation game, the internet freefolk had joined the battle.
With figures they had familiarity with like Assange and Kimdotcom coming out against Hillary, they have, in my opinion, picked a side on this.

As a guy that's been a republican for a while, to me they're that greenghost army from Lord of the Rings

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The meme-licious fallout from this is beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8btR2U2EM_Y

ETA: please someone embed!

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My guess is that hillary and her ilk will send operatives into 4chan, reddit, and her to pose and post as racist and white supremecist stuff with pepe to sell the narative of trump=pepe=racist.

She will try to attack pepe by sabotaging pepe