Pepe

Pepe the Frog.

Pepe the Frog is a fictional character 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 (unironically). 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.

Pepe came from some webcomic nobody gives a shit about.

Frogposters

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

Relationship with Soyteens

Frogposters and Soyteens have traditionally expressed solidarity as they are both 4chan outcasts.

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 in order to survive deletion by janny because, like Cirno, jannies do not consider Pepe spam. This development has been criticised 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 broke the long-lasting detente between the two groups, particularly as frogposters seemed to celebrate it as a "total frogposter victory". Relations have since deteriorated to the point where soyteens and frogposters no longer associate.

Criticism

On September 12th, 2016, beloved politician and known woman Hillary Clinton released a blogpost in which she criticised Pepe for being "sinister".