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Alex jones turning the frogs remix1/31/2023 ![]() “From the beginning, I knew I wanted Matt’s comics to come to life.” In between its talking heads, Feels Good Man is an acid trip of Furie-style animations, songs performed by fans of Boy’s Club, original Pepe drawings that have nothing to do with Boy’s Club, 4chan imageboard conversations, videos of teenage girls painting their faces to look like Pepe’s. “One of the reasons was able to be co-opted so easily is because people didn’t understand where it had come from,” says director Arthur Jones. Matt Furie may have an intelligible arc from apathy to upset to pseudo triumph, but Pepe? Pepe’s all over the place. If there’s a criticism to be made of Feels Good Man, which premieres today at the Sundance Film Festival, it’s that you leave the documentary feeling somewhat overstuffed. Pepe the Frog isn’t really a frog anymore, just an enigmatic prize in a fight that nobody’s really figured out how to win. By telling Furie’s story, Feels Good Man lays the choreography and competing emotions of that struggle bare. In 2020, creators’ struggle to wrest ownership of their art from the internet is the biggest dustup in town. ![]() He’s a children’s book author, an unlikely gladiator, except for how he isn’t. The line Furie wrote as a weirdo’s response to being caught peeing with his pants around his ankles passed through the darkest of internet prisms and became “Kill Jews, man.” “I’m just a spectator,” Furie says.įeels Good Man does linger on the anguished online reactionaries who took Pepe from fratty to fascist, but mostly, it doodles an intimate, uncomfortable portrait of a naive cartoonist trying to drag a JPEG back from the maw of 4chan’s ugliest corners-simply because it’s right and because it’s his. Pepe’s catchphrase, “Feels good, man,” was also subjected to sinister remix. By 2016, Pepe the Frog was an online hate symbol, a racist, beswastikaed nightmare creature beloved by digital white supremacists. In 2005, Pepe became a part of Furie’s comic Boy’s Club, a series about a silly, slovenly group of friends in an early-twenties funk. “It’s just been kind of a slow drip of frogs all my life,” Furie says. These supplements have been the topic of a lot of criticism, namely because they don’t work, but also because they contain things like “lead.” While I’m not a doctor, I’m told “lead” is “bad.” This has been the subject of a thorough debunking by none other than John Oliver:Ĭonspiracy theorists want attention.When Furie first drew Pepe the Frog, a cartoon that’s become one of the most recognizable and controversial memes in the world, it was just another doodle, the latest in a long line of anthropomorphic amphibians. It culminates to the real purpose of his video: having a “ 2nd American Revolution Fourth Of July Super Sale” of his supplements. Also, Russia is powerful and great and has a lot of money. The rambling video includes a variety of claims, from the “establishment” (who? we don’t really know) to “globalists” trying to remove Trump from office. I highly suggest it if you’re looking to waste the rest of your night.īut more recently, Jones took to Twitter to reveal a secret plot that liberals have all been hiding for months, if not years: that the Civil War 2.0 will start on July 4th.īREAKING: Democrats Plan To Launch Civil War On July 4th You can easily go down a YouTube rabbit hole of Alex Jones memes. But the truth behind it is much more nuanced and significantly different than the reality people like Alex Jones are trying to create.īut even the remixes of Jones have their own remixes: There is a pesticide called atrazine that can turn male frogs into females. What many people don’t realize though, is like any good pseudoscience, it started out with an ounce of truth. Perhaps most famously, this whole weird thing about putting chemicals in the water that make the freaking frogs gay: There is seemingly no end to the insanity that is Alex Jones.
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