Pepe was created for a comic by some dude, but it later became a meme with many permutations far removed from the initial comic. Comic guy got annoyed because he was a lefty and decided to kill off Pepe in his comic. The meme stuck around.
Got tied into Shadilay by the band P.E.P.E due to the Frog with a wand on the album sticker.
Egyptian Frog God of chaos called Kek was found.
It all just hyperreferenced each other and grew and mutated as memes do.
The prevailing wisdom was that Trump was a Chaos Magickian and thus Trump was memed into power by the Kekistani army of Pepes.
Something vaguely like this. I'm probably losing details.
To add to u/annamaga 's first link, the article describes "kek" as a Korean onomatopoeia and barely mentions then completely dismisses the World of Warcraft origin.
World of Warcraft sees two factions warring against each other: the Alliance and the Horde. It turns out that when one faction speaks a language not understood by other characters, a destructive word scrambler is used such that each faction knows a character said something but the original words can't be deciphered for the faction it wasn't meant for. All Alliance-aligned characters can speak the "Common" language, all Horde-aligned characters can speak the "Orcish" language, in contrast to race-specific languages within each faction.
Thus, the word "lol" spoken in the Orcish language can be read as "kek" by the Alliance-aligned characters. Sometimes the inverse operation is possible, and this is the case here: the word "kek" spoken in the Common language is read back as "lol" by the Horde-aligned characters, leading to the popularization of the use of the word "kek" by players, then bleeding out of the game and into adjacent cultures.
here's a little bit of pepe history:
https://pepethefrogfaith.wordpress.com
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VYhjqta4ICA
Pepe was created for a comic by some dude, but it later became a meme with many permutations far removed from the initial comic. Comic guy got annoyed because he was a lefty and decided to kill off Pepe in his comic. The meme stuck around.
Got tied into Shadilay by the band P.E.P.E due to the Frog with a wand on the album sticker.
Egyptian Frog God of chaos called Kek was found.
It all just hyperreferenced each other and grew and mutated as memes do.
The prevailing wisdom was that Trump was a Chaos Magickian and thus Trump was memed into power by the Kekistani army of Pepes.
Something vaguely like this. I'm probably losing details.
Pretty much sums it up. 👍
To add to u/annamaga 's first link, the article describes "kek" as a Korean onomatopoeia and barely mentions then completely dismisses the World of Warcraft origin.
World of Warcraft sees two factions warring against each other: the Alliance and the Horde. It turns out that when one faction speaks a language not understood by other characters, a destructive word scrambler is used such that each faction knows a character said something but the original words can't be deciphered for the faction it wasn't meant for. All Alliance-aligned characters can speak the "Common" language, all Horde-aligned characters can speak the "Orcish" language, in contrast to race-specific languages within each faction.
Thus, the word "lol" spoken in the Orcish language can be read as "kek" by the Alliance-aligned characters. Sometimes the inverse operation is possible, and this is the case here: the word "kek" spoken in the Common language is read back as "lol" by the Horde-aligned characters, leading to the popularization of the use of the word "kek" by players, then bleeding out of the game and into adjacent cultures.
u/#pepenuke
Consider this research: The Cult of Kek
https://www.bitchute.com/video/joWTL2mtn7Hl/