Before Pepe the Frog became a symbol for alt-right creeps and anime Nazis and other repellent slimeballs, he was just a goofy cartoon character in a comic book about anthropomorphic animals who smoke weed. What the hell happened? Why does the Internet have to ruin everything?
The YouTube channel Shots Fired took a look, and it’ll only take 10 minutes of your time:
Did you get all that? Did it make sense to you? Yeah, me neither.
If it hadn’t been a dumb cartoon frog, it would’ve been some other harmless symbol that was twisted into something creepy and disgusting. Hooray for the Internet. Hooray for mankind.