(Inquisitr) - We're still at the point where the question of what is Pepe the Frog, is one that if answered by the wrong people, can open up the wrong road to a world of questionable insurgent causes. The illustrated character has a far larger life span online than in the Boy's Club comic it's originally from. Even during the extended period of the character's internet fame, it's served its purpose as a harmless meme that comic book artist Matt Furie could be proud enough of to sell books. But not in its current form as a meme for the nationalist Alt Right, pro-Trump groups online.
This Pepe the Frog article has been criticized much like the idea that a cartoon frog could be taken so seriously, and people are even mocked for the idea that it could be so. But the Pepe the Frog character has been used as a delivery system, much as other characters have in the past. Writer Emerson James Spurrell thought it would be a good idea to dismiss this idea in the Inquisitr's Facebook thread.
Really, if you look at Spurrell's profile on Amazon, he obviously fits the profile of a Scarborough Faire know-it-all, and it's unlikely that he's got the kind of clout that Matt Furie has to have any of his characters be turned into memes or his stories to become fan fiction as he claims have happened. It should be pointed out that his dismissal of the piece having any value as even that of opinion, as a writer, is what puts one creator against another and if there isn't a code for writers, there should be one that says he is violation of it. Feel free to check out his stuff to see if it's even worth the time. But his dismissal of the piece and Pepe the Frog is also similar to that of the creator, who -- as the article explains -- has also dismissed the idea that the hijacking of his character would be something he would come to regret.
Also, in the same thread and on throughout social media, it's been said that the reason people shouldn't take this Pepe the Frog thing so seriously and why people are idiots for doing so, is because the meme was started off as a prank by some internet trolls. But that doesn't mean that Pepe the Frog is going to stay that way.
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