In China, however, Pepe has become a general symbol for disillusioned youth — their frustrations and worries are conveyed through memes, and Pepe is a central figure
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Check my edit above, its called “lonely frog” on Chinese social media, they use it to poke fun at friends who are single on Valentine’s Day and stuff or to complain about being an incel
In addition, the sound frogs make — “guagua” (呱呱) — in Mandarin Chinese sounds similar to the word “lonely” (gugua, 孤寡), which people have used to poke fun at their single friends and at themselves.
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What is this? Why are they selling Pepe merch and building giant Pepe displays
what is going on in China
@X (formerly chiobu) can you read Chinese?
Edit: ohh Pepe went viral on Weibo in China, it’s like when WPD hijacked our Marsey
https://radii.co/article/pepe-the-frog-qixi-festival
Pepe symbolizes forever alone in
“Lonely frog”
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First picture top left with the ice cream pepes = pepe’s sweet cold desserts
First picture text under the sunflower pepe = pepe’s diary of feelings
Second picture at the bottom = spring time frog and then 加油 which is like let’s go
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Thanks , Probably just a popular emoji some company used like clip art cuz it looked funny
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I wouldn’t be surprised if it was intentional I mean there are over a billion people there I’m sure there are 4channers
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Check my edit above, its called “lonely frog” on Chinese social media, they use it to poke fun at friends who are single on Valentine’s Day and stuff or to complain about being an incel
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Lmao social media in China is really another world
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i wish we had cool homophones like chinese
you get a lot of funny stuff when your whole language only has like 400 unique syllables
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You really don't. Homophones and Onomatopeoa in Japanese make the language almost inpenetrable.
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like what
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The japanese word for diarrhea and the word for curry are only one syllable apart
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Pepe is/was used for that as well in the US, it's just not limited to it.
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It started with FeelsGoodMan and went all downhill from there.
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