Zara has withdrawn a skirt with a frog design from its website after social media users noted its resemblance to Pepe, a cartoon popular with the so-called alt-right.
The denim skirt, embroidered with cartoon frogs wearing sunglasses, was being sold as part of the brand’s “festival edition”. But Twitter users were quick to point out its similarities to the Pepe cartoon:
Writer Meagan Fredette spotted the skirt and told Dazed: “My immediate thought was holy shit, they have no idea what they are doing here, do they?” The original link to the skirt on Zara’s website now redirects to its front page.
A spokesperson for the company said the skirt has “absolutely no link” to Pepe or the alt-right.
“The skirt is part of the limited Oil-On-Denim collection which was created through collaborations with artists and is only available in selected markets,” the spokesperson said. “The designer of the skirt is Mario de Santiago, known online as Yimeisgreat. Mario explores social interactions through his work and in his own words: ‘The idea came from a wall painting I drew with friends four years ago.’
“There is absolutely no link to the suggested theme.”
Pepe the Frog was created by cartoonist Matt Furie, who originally envisaged him as a “chill” and “good-natured” frog. However, over the course of the American electoral campaign, Pepe transformed from an amusing star of weird memes to a white supremacist symbol denounced by the Anti-Defamation League.
Sprry Zara, Jews have banned portrayals of frogs as anti-Semetic. Thank you for complying with our frog ban. t. Jews
Grayson Wright
>tfw autismal 4channers have actually made liberals lose their shit over everything frog related
Quick think of something they truly love that we can weaponize through memes.
Cameron Allen
>However, over the course of the American electoral campaign, Pepe transformed from an amusing star of weird memes to a white supremacist symbol denounced by the Anti-Defamation League.
ahhh if they only knew the truth ...
Dominic Ross
>autistic frog cartoon is racist pol really can make people look so stupid
Justin Turner
>Frogs are now anti-semetic and banned from life
The kikes will fall from favor exactly one more time.
Lincoln Ortiz
>blackface pepe >banning things from sale because they look like pepe >treating pepe like the swastika because adl said so
Logan Perry
>Writer Meagan Fredette spotted the skirt and told Dazed: “My immediate thought was holy shit, they have no idea what they are doing here, do they?” Is she a satirist or just batshit crazy?
Call the police, this frog looks vaguely like a rare Pepe!
Carson Ortiz
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Henry Ramirez
Zara has some pretty nice clothes but it's made for effeminate city men as their shirts tend to make you look 33% more metrosexual.
Andrew Ward
Rarest pepe
Ryder Williams
Has anyone alerted Cartoon Network's legal council?
William Jackson
This was the same woman who initially tweeted about it...
Jack Cook
>echomemeing reddit cartoons
Charles Perry
...and this is the same woman.
Ryan Diaz
Limited edition pepe. I must have it
Colton Sanders
Unbelievable
Zachary Morris
P*pe
Robert Morgan
Why are they always caving in? Who the fuck cares about the opinion of some twitter faggots???
Samuel Wilson
WE MUST REMIND THEM! THE 6 MILLION!
Gabriel Adams
and they look so very much alike...
Parker Murphy
What's annoying though is that one (literally 1) tweet was enough for Zara to totally pull the skirt. It's not even P*pe for fuck sake, it's another cartoon frog.
Kayden Gutierrez
>/ourstore/ >It's a fucking designer clothing store at that
You Goyim haven't been this fucking good in ages, my boss is jumping in his chair right now.
Jose Cooper
Do you ask permission from the Jews to produce an item of clothing depicting a frog? No I don't think so. Rightfully banned.
Ryan Stewart
Weaponized autism needed for continuing the lovely Pepe skirt! Lets start a petition or sth
Gabriel Phillips
Food.
Aaron Smith
>“My immediate thought was holy shit, they have no idea what they are doing here, do they?”
aren't we supposed to be the autistic ones?
Michael Martin
Why is she censoring the word Pepe? It reminds me of a manga saying M****alds to get around copyright.
Aiden Brown
Why is my jew sense tingling?
Mason Flores
Now that is a rare fucking pepe
Christian Murphy
All it takes is ONE mentally ill perrson to complain about imaginary racist thought crimes in social media and corporations immediately cave.
Has pepe actually spoken in a meme? I've never seen words associated with pepe just a green frog smiling or crying or whatever. The left see something they know is true and resist it with all their might but deep down they know the truth.
Jayden Ortiz
.1 hours in bangladeshi sweatshop paint
Brayden Thomas
>I've never seen words associated with pepe
newfag
Joshua Walker
This seems to be every store now.
Jackson Flores
J U D E U D E
Alexander Gray
It always bugged me how the titus symbol is an upside down pentagram. Why are so many western videogame developers satanists? From id software to origin.
Easton Foster
>400 likes >130 retweets That's enough to make a major chain pull a product that probably cost millions to manufacture and deliver? 500 people who wouldnt have bought it in the first place?
Maybe we should just start playing SJW and causing companies to financially strain themselves by bending to every insane but plausible SJW fit of rage.
Jordan Myers
>tfw working on a toad/frog yugioh deck
Asher Gomez
In fact it's worse than that, they announced that they had pulled it from their website last night when this tweet only had about 50 likes and 15 or so retweets.
Parker Perez
Zara is shit and steal designs at least go to uniqlo or something
John Flores
>millions to manufacture fucking lol maybe 50k for mass production
Mason Evans
Look at the nose on that. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
Leo Scott
So did any of you faggots buy the skirt?
Christopher Moore
>implications >implying
Xavier Ross
They're not Satanists. They just adopted Satanic imagery for edginess' sake. Many of these companies were formed during the 90s when Christianity still had some waning influence over public discourse. What better way for young pioneers in a new form of media to throw up a "fuck you" to the old guard?
Charles Morgan
That's even weirder. But a german chocolate milk company recalled a chocolate milk that was considered racist after newspapers wrote about a "internet shitstorm" (german media's favourite word to describe manufactured outrage) I bothered to dig up the original tweet all the articles were making reference to. It was by a journalist and had 10 (!) retweets. I dont get those campaigns. Sure as fuck not. Zara is a global chain with stores on every continent. They had to transport those pepe pants everywhere, had them put up on display, print catalogs, etc. This is basically millions of damage for one bipolar cunt sperging out.
I'd like to take those insecure as fuck companies to the limit though. Lets look at companies with a track record of kneejerk reactions and bombard them with removal and recall requests for leftist reasons.
Nicholas Gonzalez
Coffee Organic food Bicycles Telling other people how to live their life
Anthony Turner
I had a mentally challenged lady start screaming abuse at me today at work about how I was rude and harassing her and attacking her, I hadn't said a single word to her at all. A second after that she demands to talk to my boss, so I get her down there and suddenly she's calm as hell and I'm thinking that my boss is going to take this mad woman's side in whatever made-up story she's telling her, then she starts ranting about me, other staff members, the people outside following her.
Thank fuck my boss knows I'd never fuck around with or give shit to a customer, I was still shitting bricks about it while she was talking calmly because all it takes is one loony bitch to get you in the shit. Just like it takes one stupid tweet to fuck an entire fashion line instantly.
Evan Mitchell
>They even have a black face pepe on there
Pretty sure the designer knew exactly what he was doing and was curious if anyone would realize it
Luke Campbell
>not just Pepe, but soon all cartoon frogs will be a hate symbol
The MSM is fucking dumb for giving us so much power.
>They're not Satanists. They just adopted Satanic imagery for edginess' sake. No. Some of them were satanists for edgy reasons, being a satanist was the edgy 80s thing to do. Kurt Cobaine was a satanist.
Nathaniel Smith
So how often does ZARA recall products because someone got offended? This cant be viable. Sell them at a fucking discount instead.
Christian Brown
>they PULL the skirt >are they on our side? If you aren't retarded, the question answers itself. If you are, the answers is: no, they are not, they are a clothing store catering to the SJW's every whim.
Oliver Barnes
fear is the mind killer that makes you jump at shadows when you feed it enough
when the mighty corporate media peddlers who deem themselves arbiters of truth are afraid of fucking cartoon frogs you can tell they are absurdly out of touch with reality
