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| [[File:Pepe the frog.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Pepe the Frog.]]
| | SOYLORD IS THE KING OF SOYJAK PARTY |
| '''Pepe the Frog''', also known by a few as '''the Grinch''', 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 [[Imageboard|imageboards]], giving rise to the phrase "What does the reddit frog have to do with this".
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| Pepe came from some webcomic nobody gives a shit about.
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| == Frogposters ==
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| [[File:Frogposter coal.png|thumb|great thread man, can't wait to see where this one takes us]]
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| Frogposters are a group of [[4chan]] users who routinely post Pepe to the point of obsession.<ref>https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/14247140/#14247140</ref> They are commonly accused of making [[Coal|low-quality or nonsensical posts]],<ref>https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/search/text/frog%20on%20the%20log/</ref> and are often criticized for being whiny.<ref>https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/14352358/</ref> Their ultimate motive is unknown, but we hope it is benevolent.
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| === Relationship with Soyposters===
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| Frogposters and [[Soy Community|'jakkers]] have traditionally expressed solidarity as they are both [[4chan]] outcasts.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/kill%20yourself%20pepe/</ref><ref>https://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/kill%20yourself%20wojak/</ref>
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| 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<ref>https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/14428885/</ref> in order to survive deletion by [[janny]] because, like [[Cirno]], jannies do not consider Pepe spam. This development has been criticised by frogposters.<ref>https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/14160791/</ref>
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| On January 8th, 2022, a frogposter on [[/g/]] admitted to reporting [[Soyjak.party|The Party]] for CP (which he totally didn't post himself) and successfully getting it taken down.<ref>https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/85124904/</ref><ref>https://warosu.org/g/thread/85124904</ref> 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<ref>https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/14241540/</ref><ref>https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/14236033/</ref> as a "total frogposter victory".<ref>https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/14241588/</ref> Since then, the relations have been very tense. With some forgiving them, and others totally distrusting them and calling him by the nickname of '''Redditfrog'''. <ref>https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/14432746/</ref><ref>https://archive.nyafuu.org/bant/thread/14424867/#14426206</ref>
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| == Criticism ==
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| On September 12th, 2016, the female politician Hillary Clinton released a blogpost in which she criticised Pepe for being "sinister".<ref>https://qz.com/780663/hillary-clintons-website-now-has-an-explainer-about-pepe-the-frog-a-white-supremacist-symbol/</ref>
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| == Citations ==
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