ITT we discuss the parallels between the recent "death" of pepe, the story of Finnegans Wake, and the Christian mythos of the death and rebirth of Christ.
is the story of Pepe the contemporary equivalent of joyce's masterpiece? A postmodern crowdsourced authorship of a collective dream befit of our internet times? A jungian reflection of an archetype of the collective unconscious percolated through internet culture? Or merely an artifact of shitposting autists?
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I think the cartoonist is underestimating the depths of the bottom dwellers on this site and the amounts of time they're willing to waste to no useful purpose
/pol/ is already busy looking for a new meme character for their meme magic. They may even use another Boy's Club character, I've seen them memeing with the fuzzy character and the blue character.
I find it very provocative that Furie included the scene of Landwolf pouring over Pepe's head his brown liquor
At first glance this seems to be a shallow reference to ghetto culture - the idea of "pouring one out for the lost homies" though usually this is done not on the face of the deceased but rather poured out on the street. However on second glance this divergence is notable, considering the content of Finnegans Wake.
In the song on which Joyce based his novel, Tim Finnegan is revived when a row breaks out during his funeral and the general chaos results in a drought of whisky ("uisce beatha" - "the water of life") splashing him in the face - thereby reviving him.
>Then Mickey Maloney raised his head
>When a bottle of whiskey flew at him
>It missed him falling on the bed
>The liquor scattered over Tim
>Tim revives, see how he rises
>Timothy rising from the bed
>Then Whirl your whiskey around
>Like blazes Thanum an Dhul
>Do ye think I'm dead?
Note the presence of parallel archetypes.
Pepe being an avatar of Kek, a deity of Chaos
The Chaos of the row in the song resulting in the resurrection of Tim, and the general chaos of online interaction meaning that "killing" a popular meme such as pepe is essentially impossible.
Given the impossibility of killing a meme, i find it very interesting that Furie included the symbolic reference to Finnegans Wake in the splashing of whisky on Pepe's face in the same page as he authored his death. It's almost as though he unconsciously recognized the inevitability of pepe's online "resurrection" (really more a refusal to accept his death, the momentum of such a popular meme cannot be halted by the original author merely declaring him dead) Perhaps this inclusion by Furie represents a resentment at his loss of control over his character, a way to "get ahead"
Perhaps it is merely coincidental.
>implying dying for our sins wasnt part ot pepe's plan
Can someone clarify why Pepe is supposedly dead? Don't tell me he became ... MAINSTREAM?
Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe, drew OP's pic. I'm guessing Furie is the type to believe the media when it says his creation is a far right symbol.
The truth is, pepe faked his death. Pépe lives.
The guy who originally drew Pepe, Matt Furie, killed him in his most recent comic strip - because pepe was hilariously co-opted by the online right-wing (mostly /pol/) in order to make silly racist memes. Also the anti-defamation-league labelled pepe as a hate symbol.
It's funny the ADL called Pepe a hate symbol not even a month ago, and then started a #SavePepe campaign. Really makes you think.