Pepe the Frog ended up as the darling of both anarchists and the alt-right. A documentary tells the surprising true story of the super-meme and its creator
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Ready Fictions, streaming; BBC 4 Storyville, 26 October
OVER 25 years of the internet, memes have evolved from a one-note online sight gag – a dancing baby, say, or a cat with an irreverent caption in Impact font – to a muscular means of communication, capable of nuance and complex irony.
Yet no meme has had as strange and storied a journey as Pepe the Frog. The laid-back amphibian from cartoonist Matt Furie’s cult hit Boy’s Club was wrested from that context …
Source: Humans - newscientist.com