{"id":194965,"date":"2021-03-05T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/crypto-pepes-what-does-the-frog-meme\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:40:48","slug":"crypto-pepes-what-does-the-frog-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-pepes-what-does-the-frog-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"#Crypto Pepes: What does the frog meme?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2dc1567845e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2dc1567845e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-pepes-what-does-the-frog-meme\/#Origins_lost_in_the_mists_of_time\" >Origins lost in the mists of time<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-pepes-what-does-the-frog-meme\/#Pepes_past\" >Pepes past<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-pepes-what-does-the-frog-meme\/#The_best_of_blockchain_every_Sunday\" >The best of blockchain, every Sunday<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-pepes-what-does-the-frog-meme\/#Rare_Pepes_were_the_original_NFTs\" >Rare Pepes were the original NFTs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-pepes-what-does-the-frog-meme\/#Chainlink_frog_army\" >Chainlink frog army<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Crypto Pepes: What does the frog meme?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/magazine_Pepe.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<pre><code>                &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;When BarnBridge founder Tyler Ward decided to change his profile pic a few weeks ago, he inadvertently created a Pepe the Frog NFT meme craze embraced by celebrities and the DeFi community that was on track to reap more than $60 million in sales on the OpenSea auction platform. &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"&gt;Then the wheels fell off rather spectacularly. Magazine chats with Ward on Monday, Feb. 22, after the first 20 of 1,069 Non-Fungible Pepes were sold at an average price of $62,671 each, and he cant quite believe it.&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"&gt;We sold like $1.3M worth of Pepes, like 20 of them,\u201d he says. \u201cOne of them went for $200,000!&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"&gt;All these celebrities have gotten involved  like Diplo, just signed up to be a part of the movement. Everyone in crypto is a part of it.&lt;\/span&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All the Defi protocol founders, even Vitaliks dad, got behind it. Dillon Francis, he\u2019s a pretty famous musician in the US, hes actually been going pretty hard on all of this stuff. I wasn\u2019t expecting it. I mean, its truly blown up over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">30 min left on a bunch of these <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NonFungiblePepe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NonFungiblePepe<\/a> GET IN THERE  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uQcWJhv355\">https:\/\/t.co\/uQcWJhv355<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tthj8rM5Mp\">pic.twitter.com\/Tthj8rM5Mp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 dillonfrancis (@DillonFrancis) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DillonFrancis\/status\/1363211316140236800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Origins_lost_in_the_mists_of_time\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Origins lost in the mists of time<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Way back on Feb. 12, Ward asked his in-house designer to knock up an image of sad-faced frog Pepe in the low-res style of CryptoPunks for use as his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> profile pic. Handed a few different examples, he sent them off to friends including Synthetix founder Kain Warwick and illustrator and art collector Tim Pang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everybodys just like You gotta do this, this is really fun, he says. Of course, while Pepe is a beloved crypto meme, its also widely associated by normies with racism and sexism and the alt-right edgelords from the badlands of 4chan. This pisses Ward off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6820\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pepes-1-1024x286.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I mean were all pretty progressive. The Ethereum community is not alt right, but we very much have grown a fondness for this frog, he says, adding: The frogs background was never alt right. We were using it in crypto way before the alt right was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In its OpenSea listing, the project <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/opensea.io\/assets\/nfp?search[sortAscending]=false&amp;search[sortBy]=LAST_SALE_DATE\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> it was explicitly about trying to help rehabilitate the melancholy frogs Nazi image:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are here to reclaim the humor of the meme through our shared love for NFTs and having some fun. If our Pepes are used for racism, bigotry, or anything terrible we will shame you and Kek will have vengeance on your soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ward says he was inspired by Tyler Winklevoss idea that Bitcoin is actually a social network, inspiring millions to spread the gospel of Bitcoin by enabling them to share in its value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thought: what is the best way you can get everybody to band around the idea that Pepe is not racist? If we mint a bunch of them and give them some degree of value, then people will want them for more than just a profile picture. It creates a digital scarcity and I think that as a result of that theyll care about what they own and theyll care about trying to clean up the image of what it represents. Lets make the movement about taking Pepe back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite having zero marketing budget and no time to even set up a website, the NFT Pepes meme took off across social media, with 2,000 members <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/channels\/811726012013871174\/811726012013871181\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pouring into<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the hastily thrown-together Discord channel and almost 5,000 following the new Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I started this as a joke. I was trying to change my Twitter profile picture. But that anti racism message really resonated because Im not the only person in crypto <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently, who thought Pepe was cool, and thought it was messed up that we couldnt use them because of racist people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6821\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pepes-2-1024x286.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was just one slight problem: Ward was not aware that the meme frog even had a creator, or that artist Matt Furies life has been all but <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/09\/its-not-easy-being-green\/499892\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ruined<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by alt-right edgelords appropriating his frog, as <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feelsgoodmanfilm.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">outlined<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the excellent new documentary <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Feels Good Man<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This became clear when Galaxy Digitals Mike Novogratz tweeted about the insane $210,000 (110 ETH) price that one of the NFPs (<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/opensea.io\/assets\/0xf198046ed564a0ce6785eb5f4ce205cb8194efe2\/38\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PepeIsLyfe #38<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) went for, and the documentary makers pointed out that the knock-off Pepe had brought in almost as much as the films entire budget.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In case there was any doubt\u2026not an official sanctioned Pepe. <\/p>\n<p>Its a rather absurd moment in time that a knock off jpg can sell for the cost of making an entire documentary about the actual meme. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rUFFDweN3D\">https:\/\/t.co\/rUFFDweN3D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Feels Good Man \u2013 the doco about that frog meme (@feelsgoodmandoc) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/feelsgoodmandoc\/status\/1363682032321064961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Non-Fungible Pepe Twitter account quickly posted it was halting all sales while the team frantically tried to get in touch with Furie to seek his blessing. That blessing was not forthcoming.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I asked him if he wanted to be involved and he said no I dont and I also dont want you using Pepe, Ward explains via WhatsApp earlier this week. So instead of seeing how I could maximize profit and be a jerk, I refunded sales to people who felt slighted and I did what Matt asked me to do. Within a few days, theyd refunded 80% of the $1.8 million worth of WETH taken in the auctions.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ward believes that legally speaking, the project was on solid ground. I dont think Matts legal position is very sound but it came down to me respecting him as an artist and the hell Pepe has put him through and I dont want to be a part of either ripping someone off even if its 2% their work what made this successful or 200%.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of the day, the more I learned since starting this, that frog has made his life a living hell and had I known that starting this I wouldnt have done it, he admits. The project has since been transformed into <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kekdao\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Non-Fungible Universe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, with 69 original characters and its own currency called KEK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6819 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed3-1024x339.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pepes_past\"><\/span>Pepes past<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pepe the Frog began life innocently enough in Furies 2005 comic book <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> Boys Club as a laid back frog with the catchphrase feels good man. Sure, there was psychedelia and drugs and stuff, but Pepe was a good guy, and Furie would post the comics to his MySpace page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Memes featuring Pepe then became widespread on MySpace, Tumblr and 4chan. Over the next nine years, the frogs popularity grew to the point where influencers were doing Pepe makeup videos and mainstream pop stars like Katy Perry and Nicky Minaj were tweeting out the meme. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(function() {window.mc4wp = window.mc4wp || {listeners: [],forms: {on: function(evt, cb) {window.mc4wp.listeners.push({event   : evt,callback: cb});}}}})();<!-- Mailchimp for WordPress v4.8.3 - https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/mailchimp-for-wp\/ --><\/p>\n<div class=\"mc4wp-form-fields\">\n<div class=\"jeg_mc4wp_heading\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_best_of_blockchain_every_Sunday\"><\/span>The best of blockchain, every Sunday<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>  Subscribe for thoughtful explorations and leisurely reads from Magazine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy<\/div>\n<p><label>Leave this field empty if you&#8217;re human: <\/label><\/p>\n<div class=\"mc4wp-response\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/ Mailchimp for WordPress Plugin --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to The Daily Beast, in 2015, the anon army from one of 4chans more out there forums, \/R9k\/, decided to reclaim Pepe from the normies by pushing them away with a barrage of edgy Pepe memes featuring ironic racist, homophobic and antisemitic stuff. A member of the board tweeting as JaredTSwift told the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> outlet: We basically mixed Pepe in with Nazi propaganda, etc. We built that association.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The joke became less and less ironic as Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency and Pepe became the house mascot of MAGA and white nationalists. Remember that whole punch a nazi meme? That <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2017\/01\/23\/a-step-by-step-guide-to-a-meme-about-punching-a-nazi-in-the-face\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">began<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> when alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer was punched in the face on camera while trying to explain the meaning of his Pepe badge. That same year, the Anti-Defamation League listed Pepe as a hate symbol, even though it explicitly pointed out:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The majority of uses of Pepe the Frog have been, and continue to be, non-bigoted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ADL launched a #savepepe campaign with creator Matt Furie, who said: As the creator of Pepe, I condemn the illegal and repulsive appropriations of the character by racist and fringe groups. The true nature of Pepe, as featured in my comic book, Boys Club, celebrates peace, togetherness and fun. I aim to reclaim the rascally frog from the forces of hate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6822 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed5-300x298.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rare_Pepes_were_the_original_NFTs\"><\/span>Rare Pepes were the original NFTs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">4chan also had a hand in how Rare Pepes, essentially the original NFTs, came about. They trace their origins to a 2015 inside joke about an autistic kid who would exchange Good Boy Points for chicken tendies. Then people started exchanging Rare Pepes for tendies, which led to the idea that Rare Pepes had value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This inspired some people to create unique tokens on the Counterparty platform to represent ownership of Rare Pepe trading cards, which were traded for PepeCash. Interestingly, rules were brought in to ensure content was original and didnt relate to alt-right, white supremacist or pro-Donald Trump content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pepe trading enthusiast Django Bates <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/unclick\/rare-pepe-frog-meme-economy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the Daily Dot at the time: Most of the community dont think Pepe is an alt-right thing. Some (like me) think that we should Make Pepe Great Again and free him of that connotation. He adds further: Also, you have to be aware that Pepe as a symbol of hate and racism by alt-rights is a merely North American thing. The rest of the world does not see Pepe in that context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6824\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed4-1-243x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rare Pepe Wallet was set up as a platform to trade the tokens, with the phenomenon <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/ev57p4\/i-went-to-the-first-live-auction-for-rare-pepes-on-the-blockchain\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">culminating<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in a<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">live auction in 2018 that saw a Homer Pepe sell for around $38,500 in Pepe Cash. In an interesting postscript, earlier this week on March 1, owner Peter Lamborghini resold it for 205 ETH, or almost $300,000.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In art news: The reputed &#8220;rarest pepe&#8221; sold for 205 ETH (approximately $295k USD) according to its owner. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pQOvTOw6ZI\">https:\/\/t.co\/pQOvTOw6ZI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Travis View (@travis_view) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/travis_view\/status\/1366238406682894339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Chainlink_frog_army\"><\/span>Chainlink frog army<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The association of Chainlink, the ninth-largest cryptocurrency project, with Pepe is thanks to 4chans <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">slightly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> less awful \/Biz\/ forum, which features a deep vein of dank meme-powered crypto shilling. It was here that a Q-style prophet\/insider named Assblaster <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/X6pfn\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dropped<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hints and clues about LINK in the early days, claiming both that he was under an NDA and also dropping large amounts of free alpha about the project into the forum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Chainlink started doing well it just became this cultish prophecy of 4chan, and 4chan really likes Pepe the frog so it was kind of this merger, says Ward. A lot of people that posted about Chainlink would post with Pepe the Frog and they kind of became intertwined.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/chainlinkecosystem.com\/ranks\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LINK Marine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Albert Nazarov, who spends around four hours per day reading and tweeting about Chainlink, discovered the currency via 4chan.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Things like racism and sexism etc are prevalent, he concedes. But ironically, 4chan is basically a crucible of raw thoughts, the best and balanced make it to the top. Its almost anything goes there, and it trains the brain to decipher good info from bad stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6825\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed2-1024x658.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"658\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nazarov says that for a while there, Pepe was bad for our optics, so the community tried to distance itself by dressing up as LINK gentlemen in suits etc. However, Pepe just cuts through better.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The main power of Pepe is relatability, he says, pointing out that the character is humanoid enough to express emotion but cartoonish and abstract enough to make great memes. And great memes helped supercharge Chainlink.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It no longer bears alt right connotations in my opinion, he concludes, while pointing out further:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oracles and decentralised middleware is not sexy and its quite laborious to read about. Whilst a Pepe meme spreads the same message to a wider audience. Its basically the distillation of knowledge into a relatable form. A five-year-old could understand LINK through a meme for example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6826\" src=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Synthetix founder Kain Warwick  currently sporting a Non-Fungible Pepe profile pic  says he doesnt detect any trace of alt-right thought among the frog army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theyre all Chainlink memes, theyre very Chainlink focused, he says. And I dont think that theres a particular sort of alt right bent to the Chainlink community. I just think that theyve taken that meme as a funny meme.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But he adds there had been a long debate in the Synthetix Discord about the use of Pepe on social media  about whether the crypto community has been able to reclaim the frog. And theyd come to the conclusion it has.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote align-center\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think there is a bit of co-option of those images and reusing them for crypto memes and personally Im a fan of that. 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