Episode 107: Pepe the Frog feat Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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How a stoner frog in an indie comic was engineered by 4chan to become the face of alt right trolling. We speak to the filmmakers behind 'Feels Good Man', a new documentary on Pepe the frog, the creation of artist Matt Furie. Find out about the wholesome man behind the original Pepe. Then hear an ex-Trump campaign guy talk about the "meme war". ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Go watch the movie: https://www.feelsgoodmanfilm.com/ Follow Giorgio: https://twitter.com/giorgieangelini Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com Episode music by Doom Chakra Tapes (https://doomchakratapes.bandcamp.com/), Pontus Berghe (https://www.mixcloud.com/ChapelOne/), Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com)

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0:00.0	What's up QAA listeners?
0:07.0	The fun games have begun.
0:09.3	I found a way to connect to the internet.
0:11.7	I'm sorry boy.
0:15.7	Welcome listener to chapter 107 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the Pepe the Frog episode.
0:21.3	As always we're your host Jake Rockatansky, Julian Fields, and Travis View.
0:25.1	This week we're covering Pepe the Frog, a character created by Indie Cartoonist Matt
0:28.9	Fury.
0:29.9	Perhaps you haven't yet heard of Matt, but one thing's for sure.
0:33.2	You've definitely heard of Pepe.
0:35.6	What started as an innocent character in a 2005 Stoner webcomic was later reappropriated
0:40.8	by users of the 4chan image boring and became the centerpiece of a massive culture war.
0:46.5	One that arguably helped Donald Trump get elected in 2016.
0:50.3	A fantastic new documentary called Feels Goodman has just been released on the topic and
0:54.8	it was made in close collaboration with Pepe's original creator, they even animated
0:58.6	the series characters.
0:59.6	So this week we invited the people behind the movie on the podcast Arthur Jones and
1:03.8	George O. Angelini.
1:05.4	First we'll explore Pepe at his cultural ascendance on the alt-right and then we'll jump into
1:10.0	a deeper dive with the filmmakers.
1:12.2	But before all that…
1:16.4	First up I have a massive anti-lockdown demonstrations in Berlin and London attract QAnon followers.
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