Pepe

>Though maybe you were looking for Pepelaugh?

	MY SIDES! This page will make you KEK
	NUSOISLUTTAS WILL NEVER RECOVER FROM THIS

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Frog on the wiki Pepe the Frog
My sides
Other names	Pepe The Grinch
Occupation	Frogposting
Years active	2005 - Now
Best known for	Being a meme o algo add stuff here
Political party	Republican
IAS?	No

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This page is a gem.

Pepe the Frog, also known by a few as the Grinch, is an organic classic best known for having a vaguely-stilted neutral pose, which can be interpreted as a wide spectrum of emotions. This is similar to Doge, Wojak, or the Mona Lisa. Pepe's nonspecific emotion makes him suitable as a generic reaction image and as the

mandatory thread-starting image that is required by most imageboards, giving rise to the phrase "What does the Reddit frog have to do with this?". Pepe came from some webcomic called “Boys Club”.

Frogposters

frogssmell like bait!

Typical frog post. This is what frog posts looked like before.

Frogposters are a group of 4chan users who routinely post Pepe to the point of obsession. They are commonly accused of making low-qualityor nonsensical posts, and are often criticized for being whiny. Their ultimate motive is unknown, but we hope it is benevolent.

Relationship with Soyposters

Frogposters and 'jakkers have traditionally expressed solidarity or a friendly rivalry as they are both 4chan outcasts (even though Pepe posts make up half of 4cuck’s activity). Due to the fact that Pepe is such a broad image with little expectation of being related to the post material, Soyteens sometimes make soy-related posts on /bant/ using Pepe to survive deletion by jannies because, like Cirno, jannies do not consider Pepe spam. This development has been criticized by frogposters. On January 8th, 2022, a frogposter on /g/ admitted to reporting The Party for CP (which he totally didn't post himself) and successfully getting it taken down. Soot later corroborated his story, confirming it to be true. This almost broke the long-lasting detente between the two groups, particularly as some frogposters seemed to celebrate it as a "total frogposter victory". Since then, the relations have been very tense. With some forgiving them, and others totally distrusting them and calling Pepe by the nickname Redditfrog.

Laughing Pepe Cabal

MY FUCKING SIDES

Sometime in October 2022, a rather persistent and annoying group of frogcoalers started spamming an image of Pepe laughing in bait threads, trying to mock 'teens with demoralization garbage. Interestingly enough, many of those demoralization posts were clearly false flags by the laughing Pepe cabal itself. It is widely accepted that these posters, eventually dubbed Frogniggers, come from the Pepe-themed image board Frenschan. Frognigger activity has led to a ubiquitous disdain towards Pepe on the sharty.

Neo-Frogposting

As the sharty ages as a community, previously sharp lines begin to blur. Discerning if someone is either of the actual frogposting faction or is just a soyteen frogposting has become more difficult, this is because frogposting has been de facto adopted into sharty culture. As of late 2023, frogposters are met with far less disdain than they were in the past. The character popularized by the laughing Pepe demoralizers evolved into a way for soyteens to vent their day-to-day frustrations with the sharty and its users/moderation, its usefulness being in its ability to demand attention with its inflammatory nature and bold red text. Even the current admin, froot, has frogposted on occasion. This change of demographic has shifted the perception of frogposters from being offsite invaders to disgruntled oldteens

Glossary

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Steganography datamining strips

Warning! The following may feature disinfo, psy-ops, or other infohazards created by the CIA. Proceed with caution.

They appear below the pupils.

An easily missed feature of every Pepe is the pair of identifying lines below the left eye. It is highly improbable that these strips are mere compression artifacts as they have been stamped on every instance of the most common Pepe in the exact same manner, and there is seemingly no reason for a compression algorithm to do this; besides, the strips exist even on image formats that don't use compression. The strips are likely a steganographic technique to embed hidden data within every Pepe. It is unknown what data is embedded in the Pepes, but it is likely a means to track the spread and evolution of the wider Pepe meme. Many of those frogNIGGERS are retarded enough to use the steganographically compromised pepes. As expected of frogNIGGERS.

Compromised Pepes

The steganography strips appear solely but uniformly on the most common Pepe variety on the internet, the 976x850. This is the variety featured at the top of this article. The 976x850 originates from a 2016 news article by the BBC, for which it owes its potency — such coverage by such a large news organization has made the image the first result for "pepe the frog" and the second result for "pepe" on Google images; the first result (the 780x438 "pepefroggie.jpg" from KYM) does not have the strips actually, it does as well these are also present in the BBC version; however, this variant is used much less frequently likely due to its uncomfortable rectangular proportions, especially when compared to the squarish British Broadcasting Corporation image which is much more suited for forum posts. The BBC pepe, due to its wide usage among frogposters, is hashbanned on Soyjak.party.

Involvement by the British state & ultimate purpose

Along with Wojaks, Pepe and its variations are by far the most popular images posted on 4chan, with tens of thousands exchanged every year. The only organizations capable of sifting through whatever data provided by the steganography built into every Pepe are that on the scale of world governments. Considering the common source of all steganographically compromised Pepe images is the British Broadcasting Corporation, it is likely that the British state is behind this operation. This points to the conclusion that the steganography strips are a British covert intelligence operation to monitor the spread and evolution of Pepe as a meme — this, in turn, ultimately suggests involvement by Richard Dawkins, a high-ranking British officer within the "Science State", who proposed the theory of memes and how they spread in his book The Selfish Gene (1976).

Possible artificial popularity of Pepe

"Pepe the frog" in blue; "Pepe the frog meme" in red. Both reached their all-time peaks in September 2016, the same month that the "most common Pepe" entered circulation. Note: This data comes from Google, who may have obfuscated the numbers to hide the truth.

Steganographically compromised Pepes first began to spread on September 28th, 2016, when the British Broadcasting Corporation posted an article featuring the first stripped Pepe. This was around the time when interest in Pepe was at the highest point it had ever been and has ever been since, mostly down to the meme becoming an issue in the US Presidental Election following a Twitter post by Donald Trump, which was subsequently matched by the ADL branding Pepe a hate symbol. This string of high-profile political controversies featuring Pepe may have been an artificial campaign to prepare the ground for the coming steganographic datamining operation. This also coincides with the 4chan concept of /pol/ "election tourists", which itself hints at even greater astroturfing.

Possible CIA involvement

It is probable that the British state was aided in this operation by the CIA and other Five Eyes intelligence organizations, especially considering the role played by the US presidential election; however, this cannot be decisively confirmed.

Technical information

The technical details behind the steganography strips on Pepe images are still largely unknown, but it is likely that they mark a small, virtually imperceptible piece of data on the image file that can later be extracted and used to trace its origin and spread by those with the proper decryption key. There are various methods for implementing digital watermarking, including least significant bit (LSB) insertion, spread spectrum, and discrete cosine transform. The data itself likely contains information such as the location and time of the image's creation and dissemination, as well as any metadata associated with it. It is possible that the steganography strips visible on Pepe images are simply a visual marker for the presence of the hidden data, and do not actually contain any of the data themselves. Alternatively, the strips could potentially contain a smaller amount of data, such as a key or code needed to access the larger, more complex data embedded within the image. It is unclear how the data is extracted from the Pepes. It is likely that the British state or other government agencies have access to sophisticated software and algorithms that can analyze the steganography strips and extract the hidden information. This data is then used to track the spread and evolution of the Pepe meme, as well as gather insights into online communities and cultural trends.

Predecessors mentioned in the Snowden Leaks (2013)

RAF Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire, England. The spheres are radomes: sites with satellite uplink capabilities believed to be used to mass track data.

Although the Pepe steganography project itself was rolled out in 2016 and therefore was not mentioned in the 2013 Global surveillance disclosures, the leaks do mention a number of predecessors to such a program, including:

• Project Optic Nerve, in which the British government collected and analyzed webcam images from millions of Yahoo users without their knowledge or consent. This program, which was active from 2008 to 2010, demonstrates the British government's ability and willingness to process a massive number of datamining images for intelligence purposes.
• ECHELON, a global network of intercept stations used by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (comprised of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) to intercept and analyze a wide range of electronic communications, including telephone calls, faxes, and emails. This program, which has been in operation since the Cold War, demonstrates the willingness of these countries to engage in extensive surveillance of civilian communications in order to gather intelligence.
• The NSA's proto-steganography program, which attempted to track the spread of jihadist propaganda on Facebook. Leaked documents mention the NSA's interest in utilizing hidden data embedded within seemingly innocent images and videos to track the movement and distribution of extremist material, although this was just an idea and had not been implemented by June 2013.
• Tempora, a program run by the British intelligence agency GCHQ that allows for the intercept and storage of vast amounts of internet traffic passing through fiber optic cables. This program has been in operation since at least 2011, and has likely provided a wealth of data on internet usage and communication patterns.

As part of a wider conspiracy

If the British government was indeed collecting and analyzing data on internet memes as far back as 2008, as the Snowden leaks seem to suggest, it is possible that the steganography strips on Pepe images were part of a larger effort to track and monitor the spread of memes on the internet. This means that the British government, and by extension the rest of Five Eyes, has been interested in the role of memes in shaping public opinion and political discourse for a significant amount of time. Whether this data is being used for nefarious purposes or simply for academic study remains unknown, but the presence of these strips on every instance of the most common Pepe suggests a level of organization and coordination beyond the national level.

Use in Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot

In October 2020, a group of individuals were arrested for conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. It was later revealed that many of the individuals involved in the plot had been avid 4chan users, and routinely shared Pepe memes with each other, including the 976x850 variety with the steganography strips. Through the use of these strips, the FBI was able to track the spread and evolution of the plot as it developed, including identifying key players and their involvement in the conspiracy. It is possible that the strips have been used for similar purposes in the past, and that the use of "weaponized steganography" to target individual groups is more widespread than previously thought. In conclusion, don't download the BBC pepe. You should also block MD5-hashes of compromised pepes just to be safe.

Shadilay

"Shadilay" is an Italo disco song by the Italian band P.E.P.E., released in 1986 by the music label Magic Sound. It was written by Italian singer-songwriter Marco Ceramicola, who sang under the pseudonym of Manuele Pepe. It became a major meme around the elections of 2016 on /pol/ due to the humorous coincidence of the band being named pepe and the icon of the album being a green frog. "Shadilay" is also a term used by many frogposters and /pol/ users.

Criticism

On September 12th, 2016, the femoid Hillary "Benghazi Butcher" Clinton released a blogpost in which she criticized Pepe for being "sinister".