How did a character from Matt Furie’s comic Boy’s Club become one of the mega-memes to end all viral meme characters? Yup, it’s Pepe the Frog. Do you even know where Pepe comes from? How he became a symbol of powerful forces of provocation and extremist alt-right political views today? And what does its creator have to say about how this came to be and what he can do about it?
If interested, check out more info on the Sundance Award-winning documentary Feels Good Man. Director by Arthur Jones leads us on an investigation of the webverse that many of us, particularly today’s students, inhabit here and now.
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