I'm not a religious or superstitious person, but the more I've researched the connection between Pepe the Frog, and Trump's victory… I've come to believe in Meme Magick.
I believe the problem is that the leftist internet doesn't have a strong enough expressed will. We need a sigil of our very own, to unite leftists and dismantle unjust capitalist heirarchies.
I propose the use of Cats, Catgirls, and Cat-Memes to Unite Us. In the Early History of the IWW, workers took a starving cat as their mascot, and when the cat regained healthy they thrived. The controversy surrounding catgirls on reddit is a bad omen, and we must counter by spreading the symbol of socialist and anarchist cats worldwide, in all sorts of rare and valuable memes.
Should we use a modified version of baneposting? That magic is incredibly strong
Zachary Russell
Time to show Holla Forums the supremacy of centrally planned memes
John Evans
> research kek'd
Memes don't matter themselves. They are just expressions of the dynamics of the community that made them. Community and self-organization matters. Holla Forums didn't just make memes. They protested on every internet medium. They were everywhere. They could be easily reached and could be communicated to. This is populism, and this is how politics should be done. People want to talk about politics, they want to hear arguments for and against. You can become popular if you go out of your way to be with the people who are voting.
That's exactly what Holla Forums did.
Colton Lee
Shoo shoo meme goblin!
Angel White
We can use the Egyptian mythology as they do with Kek with the original catgirl Bastet.
Jordan Morales
I'd prefer Thor from the Norse mythology as Tor, the anonymizer. At least the names are alike. I think that's point with Lel and Kek.
I also recommend Pakal/Pacal from mayans, it means a disgusting Hungarian dish made from beef tripe. We could use it as an enemy God of porkies or something.
Jack Fisher
What the
Well, learn something new every day
David Reyes
That has potential. Bastet, the IWW Anarcho-Syndicalist Cat, CatGirlDrawFag's Ideology Cats.
Imagine images of Bastet taking a swipe at a deranged pepe.
If we could create an easily exploitable format for memes, or spam it like Bane, use the icons on all of our web accounts, maybe even try to get a "trade" of rare ones going like Pepe, we might have something.
That's totally fair, but with a symbol, with a series of GETS, with coincidences including KEKs, PEPEs, and such across pop culture, they were able to rally around each other and find hope in an otherwise impossible seeming campaign.
Give us a similar symbol, and maybe people might be motivated to fight harder. People might over-come hopelessness and apathy, tell overbearing sectarians and gloating fascists that we won't take it quietly.
I have reason to believe thoth is an 8 chan god sent here to rob the one true God of his power. Praise KEK Convert now and be spared the rope.
Troth is a subversion. Praise only KEK
KEK IS THE ONLY INTERNET GOD
TH0TH IS A MAJOR FAGGOT
Part of the same pantheon, for the 100th time. We have been over it.
Jacob Walker
Osteochondrodysplasia Edit Osteochondrodysplasia (OCD) is a developmental abnormality that affects cartilage and bone development throughout the body. This condition causes the fold in the breed and in studies conducted so far, all folded cats are affected by it.[13] Homozygous folds are affected by malformed bone structures and develop severe painful degenerative joint diseases at an early age. This condition also affects heterozygous folds, but usually to a much lesser extent and at a later age. Some will be asymptomatic.
While ethical breeders breed Fold/non-fold and not Fold/Fold (in the same way Munchkins are bred) to avoid producing homozygous folds,[3] because heterozygous folds can also develop progressive arthritis of varying severity, some researchers recommend abandoning the breeding of folded cats entirely.[7][14] For this reason the breed is not accepted by either the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy[15] or the Fédération Internationale Féline.[16]
CFA breeders have stated that using only fold to non-fold breeding has eliminated problems with stiff tails, shortened tails and bone lesions.[1] In the FIFe discussion, the representative for British breeders claimed that they were not seeing the problem in their cats and that the study which showed that all heterozygous also have the condition had a small sample size. An offer of free X-rays was presented to 300 breeders to find a folded cat with healthy hind legs but it was never taken up.[17][18] A similar offer was set up by the World Cat Federation together with researcher Leslie Lyons but there was also no response. FiFe stated that they will not consider recognizing Scottish Folds if breeders will not allow their breed to be scrutinized.[19]
Poor leftcom cat, no wonder she's down
Also, I can't say I believe in meme magic, but what the hell, cats are cool.
Asher Brooks
Quit trying to force memes. Make some shit, if it resonates with the subconscious of the hivemind it'll take off on it's own. If not, make more shit.
Isaac Sanders
People say that meme magic ain't shit, but over the last week my meme dowsing rod flies out of my hand when I pick it up, and all the meme crystals dangling from my ceiling span so hard they've tangled together. Our catgirls are more dank than a frog. Soon anime will be real, and catgirls will be real!
Ian Torres
Also,we must seize the Boujie lolcats and make them weapons for the people.
Jayden Ward
They are not forced but centrally planned :^)
Jace Smith
The more I look into it I see more meme potential
A parallel to the don't tread on me snake perhaps?
Julian Lopez
Also, I'm noticing porky memes are starting to make an impact on reddit. How long until we get r/soc to ban them?
Jonathan Myers
A return to old internet cat memes but as revolutionary agents might work. It almost seems that history is revitalizing itself if we do so
Asher Perry
I think there's also gains to be made in "pretend that public figure is blatantly a communist" in the pattern of jeb "Bash the Fash" bush
Logan Rodriguez
i want to believe
Nolan Rodriguez
Meet the savior of our board.
Mason Hall
Also:
Alexander Ward
From the wiki:
Caleb Harris
Why would any person or groups of people want to be associated with the turtle son?
Jack Reyes
Look at the last couple of post, the meme marketbeconomy is not working, do we want our memes to crash like rare pepes did?
We need to cemtrally plan them, someone get the tankies to work
James Price
Because the very idea of him being competent and revolutionary is hilarious.
Jeremiah Rodriguez
This. Centrally planned memes isn't about forcing memes, it's mode of production which should more effectively fulfill needs' of people. Also, my memes are shit, feel free to improve
Nathaniel Roberts
So I fucking suck at Paint, but I dressed a cat up in a little Spanish Civil War outfit. Have a base to do your own stuff as well.
Lincoln Morris
Sorry, wrong pic.
Jayden Ramirez
Meme magic is just the magic of being an obnoxious faggot until another person's willpower gives out.
Joshua Evans
And? It worked, didn't it?
Jackson Moore
I'm not arguing against it, just pointing out what it is so that 1 the doubters might pull their heads out of their asses and 2 the true believers might realize it's perfectly mundane what's going on here.
Matthew Williams
It's not "meme magic", it's the
S P E C T A C L E
and we should do what Zizek advised, use it for our own goals.
Sebastian Wilson
Look at what meme magic got them though, their obsession with cucking and peepeepoopoo got them cucked and their guy is now known for being a pisspig. If we memed a socdem into office or even a socialist revolution we'd probably end up with staunch Irish opposition or something.
Joseph Jackson
Bleh, still the meme-right memed themselves a rather cohesive force, maybe we can meme ourselves a modicum of unity. Or a decently leftist politician or movement that is taken seriously.
Deep down even you guys don't believe your own bullshit.
Dominic Perry
Is OP aware that Holla Forums didn't create pepe, it was a /r9k/ meme and before that it was character froma stoner comic called boy's club? And that the creator of boy's club fucking hates how the aut-right took his character?
David Morgan
Correct. It sucks but I think he is now invariably tarnished by association.
That said, he was always a symbol of chan culture (at least since he first appeared on the chans), and as of late has become a symbol of rebellion against the outside world. I think his transition from radical R9K-ist to Holla Forumsack was more gradual then has been reported.
Blake Morales
It was a meme before /r9k/ though. The original "feels good man" scene was a meme on Holla Forums and Holla Forums first.
Carter Baker
FUCK OFF
Blake Cook
Why not make Wojak aka feel guy into a counter-pepe?
There are so many images where Wojak is tortured and humiliated by Pepe i'd like to see one where he retaliates.
Ian Reyes
I like when Holla Forums comes here to say we just edit their memes. Literally crying about cultural appropriation. Hahaha.
Parker Cooper
It's all just magical thinking and selection bias; associating two things that have nothing to do with eachother and capitalizing whenever a meme "becomes real" and then ignoring the times when it doesn't.
Leo Clark
But that post is saying Pepe didn't start as a Holla Forums meme you illiterate fuck
Jason Miller
Oh my fuck
Jacob Long
You are telling communists not to force something
Ryan Taylor
s-sorry sempai
Leo Evans
one day people will study memeology mark my words.
Wyatt Price
pepe came naturally. You can't just have threads to organize creating a meme. Just let the board grow and normal discussion to occur and memes will come. Don't force identity, or else it's cringey
Ethan Walker
Memes are forced by definition.
Tyler Peterson
Can't we like debate about politics, tell the proletariat how they are being robbed by the porky? Call me old fashioned but using catgirls to make a revolution or turning someone a socialist just sounds… retarded.
Jason James
Trump won because he had a simple answer to all the proletariat problems and it seems to make sense if you are uneducated like most proles sadly are. Did Hitler need frog or cat memes to rise to power?
Ian Myers
Many are still brainwashed by Holla Forums and think memes are worth anything.
Christian Fisher
They're already doing it. This is from Great Britain's online spying division, and the US Air Force has developed software for managing multiple social media sockpuppet accounts.
The memes, man, the memes.
Lucas Baker
Who we should meme to power? Jeremy Corbyn?
Josiah Garcia
It also show how Holla Forums crosses over with /r9k/, we can guarantee a good chunk of Holla Forums is not socially functional and blames anyone but themselves for being lonley
Gotchu sempai
Ah yes, pepe in the original comic was a careless stoner
Dylan Collins
Charlie Angus perhaps? IIRC him and Andrew Cash used to be in a punk band known for anti-aparthied songs.
Andrew Stewart
He found the Nazi's in his depression as a failed artist and they took the Swastika from Eastern Religions. They were a weird group that found similarity in ancient people and build on the bases of where the Aryan came from and built that as their foundation for their party. No different from this thread where Anons try to find ancient gods that liked cats or some proto-communist people that had similarity to Leftist belief.
Michael King
I'm not supposed to be feeling this feel.
Nicholas Mitchell
That's real fucking spooky, fam
Jackson Fisher
"meme magick" isn't real, but memes are essentially layman propaganda and if you think they can't be utilized for anything effectively then you're just larping
Xavier Butler
You can't force memes. Designating a "centrally planned meme" or whatever will not work.
We need to reject chan culture and allow our own culture to develop. Otherwise we'll just look like faggots feebily trying to imitate Holla Forums.
Chase Barnes
This is exactly true, Memes will come naturally, via funny and memorable posts, which cause a chain reaction of imitations and parodies. if you want to force memes, all you're going to get is one million posts of variants of "le ebic comnist advice animal xDDD".
Michael Hughes
Memes are fucking cancer and the sooner we reject chan culture the better.
Jordan Ward
VOLUNTARISIM IS FOR CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS
Bentley Long
Memes have gone far beyond chan culture at this point. Go somewhere else if you want to bitch about how mean we are.
Jacob Turner
It's more about numbers and seemingly organization, there'are actually some reasons of how this could work. There's some research that shows how the mayority is just apathic, change only comes with a vocal minority, in this case, a bunch of faggots post right wing pepe memes over all the internet, and it seems like they're a lot more than they actually are. Remember that 2015 and earlier 2016, the polls showed that people were "embarrased" to say they supported Trump. With more visibility on people felt more identified with his side. Another thing to take in account, would be Democrat's stupidity. By taking a normie meme like pepe and painting it as a definitive factor for being a Trump supporter, then you're alienating potential voter base. There's no bad publicity and you're actually exposing them to ideology if you paint a broad symbol as part of that ideology. Then, of course, comes a community sense. When alt-right identified itself with things like pepe, it created a sense of community, they could see supporters everywhere and felt even more assured to win and to proselitize their opinion.
That of course takes in account only part of the Trump phenomenon, but still I think this is a viable political strategy.
Cameron Miller
Will leftypol ever create its own memes?
You are like a bootleg of the real pol
Bentley Bell
wew
Asher Myers
Perhaps leftist memes should be made based around certain animu characters(Lelouche, Jacuzzi Splot, Guts etc.)?
Brandon Price
I've been posting on /r/me_irl a lot lately. It's basically Reddit's [s4s] at this point. They're all communists, and not entirely cucked by SJWs. We should try forcing communist cats there.
Luke Roberts
They're actually liberals just LARPing as communists, worse than /r/socialism
Tyler Sullivan
Pepe is a scab who will beg for mercy but will never have mercy for you Wojack is a strong man who no matter how bad he feels he does what is right.
Lincoln Collins
I feel like a lot of them are at least somewhat sincere. The point isn't really finding a community that will readily accept our ideology though, we need to find a community to accept our memes. This could be it.
Tyler Jackson
wasting three hours of your life adding words to pictures of cats when you could be reading theory and encouraging the youth to read theory. Autists like memes. Ubermensch like theory
Asher Evans
Meme magic is a spook, we shall use meme science.
Dylan Perry
do u read theory at like 1 paragraph an hour too?
Angel Gomez
...
Andrew Turner
Every tradition and ritual in the world started as a meme. Memes shape cultures.
Leo Smith
beautiful
Aaron Martinez
are you retarded
Dylan Brooks
wew
Adrian Smith
Kill yourself and your pseudoscience non-theory, Dawkins.
Gabriel Hall
First it was Satanic Cult Abuse
I didn't believe it, because that's just silly, and extremely unlikely and improbable
Then it was Aliens Abducting people to take their ovum and sperm to create alien human hybrids
I didn't believe it because that's just silly, and extremely unlikely and improbable
Then I believed a cartoon frog won an election, saying the word Kek,
despite the Starcraft community using it as a meme for full on years and nothing happened
And I believed it was not silly, and completely plausible
God the internet has gone to the dogs
Michael Wright
All those Koreans died playing computer games. Clearly some benevolent power is at work here.
Jonathan Diaz
I was into starcraft, everyone was using it. Americans, Ukranians, Germans, koreans
Kek was not anything come out whole cloth by Holla Forums. The mere fact they think saying the name kek a lot will make them win, says a lot about Holla Forums, and how fucking new they are to the internet in general.
Anthony Jenkins
it's even worse than your implications
Aaron Scott
Yeah, kek comes from WoW. When an orc speaks to somebody on the alliance and says something, it's turned into something that looks orcish. "lol" turns into "kek" and is seen so frequently it's not surprising it spread to starcraft and other blizzard games before getting widespread use
Thomas Cruz
What is the funniest part to me, is just seeing this when I was younger daily
And now Holla Forums is just fucking. Acting as if they say kek a lot, it will shift the tides of reality in their favor.
like
Where have you been
Anthony Hughes
I thought it was from "kekeke zerg swarm"?
Elijah Price
that's derived from the original. since kek means "lol" it's not unusual to see "kekekekeke" as "lololololo"
Jordan King
But it predates WoW
Luke Reed
proof pls
Jace Howard
Just saw this posted on fullcommunism said it was excellent because it was sizeist.
Not even joking.
Michael Gonzalez
yeah, that's where I understood it and heard it the most on Starcraft.
This whole thing is just endlessly amusing to me.
Who knows? Maybe people playing Starcraft saying kekekekekek started the Iraq War and the execution of Saddam Huessain
Parker Clark
We use meme science
Colton Miller
It was merely a jest thou joyless ruffian
Jacob Young
when will the idpol meme end?
Aaron Richardson
I know, I'm just saying because it seems everyone has this notion that kek was just something Holla Forums came up with and "used meme magic" with it, since it was the name of some frog god or some crap which must be pepe.
I know I'm taking this seriously it's just, too fucking good
We all know that pepe was just feelsbadman frog and that kek was just starcraft autism
Smug Pepe isn't even from Holla Forums either so they own exactly none of the source materials for their memes. Mixed race caucasoids with dark skin invented their god, Asians invented their word of power, an unassuming liberal invented their avatar and the guy they chose to project all of this onto is just a typical neoliberal "social conservative" who fucks 13 year old ladyboy hookers
Hudson Wright
Obvi praise kek tho lol
Carter Anderson
Well, that is the group I was referring to. Not you in general.
Jaxon Roberts
was hoping I wouldn't see this fucking garbage here
time to move on
Cooper Garcia
Memes breed enthusiasm and community. Skepticism of meme doctrine and Dialectic science is counter-revolutionary.
Camden Scott
Recycling jokes for years is about as useful as it sounds
Ayden Cooper
goddamn Holla Forums don't you know you have to motherfucking RAISE MARX FROM THE DEAD
it's really not that hard holy fuck have ANY of you EVER ACTUALLY DRAWN A PENTAGRAM
such incompetence holy fuck
do i have do resurrect him myself????
Luis Howard
I present to you the ancient God Lel. His symbol is a stork. vid related
got it, next vid is gonna be a centrally planned meme
Jace Diaz
Praise lel
Michael Cruz
This
1.-make a thread about, volunteers get their IP registered 2.- they have to meet meme production quotas 3.- if they fail to deliver they get sent to the gulag (ban)
Its perfect, someone make the thread
Jack Allen
Yeah, but users still have to create them. They don't rise out of the aether. People open up photoshop and make shit.
And every meme has a phase where it's just 10 guys going "Lol that's great"
Additionally, memes aren't an inevitable process. 4chan Holla Forums used to be the very beating heart of memes, but those days are long forgotten. It's still a very active board, of course, but it's a fucking wasteland from which no content emerges.