A followup to this post… they make Halloween costumes of video game streamers now:
Was going through my books and found my copy of Matt Furie’s Boy’s Club (dated 2006), which I got at a comics fest in 2010. This was between the “feels good man” era and the “Sad Pepe” era:
Forget Hillary Clinton and Rachel Maddow’s denunciations of the supposed Nazi frog, this is the only “Pepe explainer” you need:
Also, I think this is the comic where “Sad Pepe” comes from?