>This group largely identifies with the so-called “alt right”, a white nationalist group, and believes the frog, named Pepe, is imbued with a magical power to bring Trump into office—as long as devotees plaster the frog’s image everywhere, like a flyer for takeout food.
>“I've been observing [this phenomena] first hand for quite some time now,” Ferréol told me. “And I'm fascinated at the way internet folklore is turning into something new—not exactly activism, not exactly religion, but something close to a new form of magic and animism in an era when communities have transformed into tribes. And they are savage, creative and, as we now know, really powerful,” he added, referring to the online communities where Pepe is literally considered a god.
>Ferréol is detailing what he calls “memetic warfare.” The technique involves charging a symbol, which will then act as a proxy for a clandestine plan. In occult tradition, this is known as chaos magic. The image could be something as abstract as a hieroglyphic doodle, which a group decides will bring them, say, jobs or food or spouses. The image just has to be widely seen, even subliminally, so that it can seed the minds of the larger population and bring about real world results. (If you think this sounds a bit like hypnotism, you’re right.)
Studies have shown meditation can change the physical world. I put prayer and meme magic in the same category, for what its worth. Its just a large number of people willing a specific outcome.
Aaron Moore
creating memes requires more than sitting there hoping something happens.
Luke Smith
Memes aren't just something that happens, memes are something that you make happen!
Ryan Flores
Sup Forums outed as Miss-Cleo-tier retards.
Jason Rogers
>Folklore.
>Fake.
If that idiot only knew......
Trump became President, didn't he?
If he only knew what beings are guiding Sup Forums......
Real beings.... not fake....
Chase Lopez
But it keeps people focused on the outcome they want. That's the whole point I'm making.
Gabriel Fisher
pepe is far past its prime
Isaac Reed
PRAISE HIM YOU HERETICS!!!
Jackson Ramirez
and it was so-so to begin with
Thomas Ross
The only thing more autistic than what this article described is the fact that a serious """journalist""" actually took the time to write it.
Nathan Bell
CONFIMS
Check mine
William Torres
But Pepe is not our God
Praise Kek
Ian Brown
This is why satire is dying.
Brody Gray
>normalfags unironically believe everything posted on this board
Ryder Rodriguez
>actual journalists are starting to spout styx's bullshit What a time to be alive lads.
Isaiah Anderson
Do not put prayer with something as effective as meme magic
Hudson Gomez
>joke goes this far
I can't believe they are this fucking stupid.
Jace Powell
>According to this occult online army, Trump is set to be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States thanks to their viral efforts.
Thanks, Obama.
Brayden Gomez
It makes them look like complete idiots.
Carson Wood
Kek is our god, Pepe is his prophet.
These "journalists" really do zero research.
Colton Williams
Careful. Meme Magic deniers shall be burned as heretics.
Robert Wright
>tfw your to smart too fall for meme magic
Nathaniel Allen
>someone is actually more autistic than Sup Forums
Tyler Perry
Confirmed.
Brandon Nguyen
This article is making me giggle like a little bitch
Angel Peterson
HEY VICE, CHECK THIS
AND CHOKE ON OUR DICKS
Liam Nelson
I always think of Mr. House when I see this image
Jack Anderson
Liberals trying to understand cultures they don't belong to is always hilarious. I'm surprised it's possible to stay alive when they have their heads shoved so far up their asses.
Hunter Hughes
>Vice journalist believes that GET thread and shitpost LARPing is actually genuine cult >despite his research, still manages to get the impression somehow that Pepe is the god being worshipped instead of KEK
can I just have this guy's job? I'll do better than him.
Isaiah Ramirez
Watching these liberal retards take us so seriously is pretty amusing
Anthony Collins
>Vice >serious journalism
You kidding right? Vice has been Buzzfeed tier for years.
Isaac Thompson
>“alt right”, a white nationalist group
This must be the worst meme pushed by the msm right after blue texas
I love it. The left does all it can to never be elected again.
That plan of taking progressive talking points, ramp it up to double eleven and implode the left from within was genious. We should stick with it.
Landon Gonzalez
HE HAS SPOKEN
Jackson Hill
nah, let them be misinformed. Makes our job easier.
Camden Roberts
DO NOT TAKE MY OCCULT MEMES AS A CONJURING OF CHEAP TRICKS!!!!!
William Murphy
I'm confused.
Do outsiders truly believe that we believe that a cartoon frog has magic powers and that these magic powers grow more potent through spreading the image and offering up consecutive digits?
They know it's a joke, r-right? Are they in on the joke and playing along? This is some 8th Dimension Othello going on...
Adam Bell
>Vice >Not legacy lamestream media
That's about all, Peace out
Dominic Thompson
Kek has spoken. Burn the heretics.
Joseph Butler
>He took meme magic seriously and that's why these retards lost
Isaiah Morales
they assume everyone takes everything as seriously they do. they dont understand jokes because they are so boring. praise kek
Colton Bell
They're starting to sound like those weirdos who are afraid of harry potter
Colton Edwards
NO
Henry Hughes
That's it Sup Forums, that's the ultimate trolling level. It can't go up from here, it's only donwhill from now on.
Evan Green
"Occult supporters" praise a cartoon frog. "Totally legit" politicians praise a bull demon that asks for sacrifices
Jaxon Hernandez
>There are people ITT who don't seriously believe in meme magic
Too much has been going right for us for meme magic to NOT be real. If you honestly don't see the Kek (PBUH) is real, you're lost.
Noah Ramirez
>they still are taking Sup Forums seriously normies when will they learn
Christopher Hill
>White Nationalists >Composed of International shitposters from all over the World. Yea ok
Andrew Mitchell
In some ways it is actually true, just in a metaphorical sense. These leftists may or may not actually believe it, but painting Trump supporters as crazy is an attempt to delegitimize him. It hasn't worked before and won't work now.
linking to fake news sites like vice should not be allowed
Andrew Stewart
No. We are the prophets, Kek speaks through us.
Pepe is the flesh vehicle for Kek.
All three are different, but they're all Kek
Tyler White
What's alt-right? Sounds gay, t bh.
Chase Diaz
>can I just have this guy's job? I'll do better than him. No, you couldn't. Liberal journalists are all about theatrics. I don't know if it's deliberate, deliberate ignorance or a mix of both, but liberals have to create narratives, drama and meaning in everything they report. They're incapable of acting as indpendent observers or to analyze something objectively.
They probably do this because it's an effective way to brainwash other emotionally vulnerable people, but I also believe it's subconscious result of having been bombarded with fiction throughout their lives. It's as if it's replaced religion in their world, in that they need some sort of overarching narrative and absolute morals in order to make sense of the world.
Their delusions go so far that not a single news outlet has realized or been willing to admit that their own racism and sexism against white men is partially to blame for turning people against them, and making Trump a champion against their hypocrisy. It doesn't fit into their narrative, where they're the heroes and we're the villains.
The state of journalism today plus the attempt at internet censorship with this "fake news" campaign makes me want to hurl myself off the high building i can find. Jesus.
Colton Howard
I like how w'ere the crazy ones because of meme magic, but these complete fucking retarded morons that put all their faith in these bullshit, unscientific polls (redundant) are the sane, smart ones.
Can't wait to open up them libel laws on these parasites.
David Wright
Fück off
Gavin Hughes
>Implying there are no people that actually brlieve in this There are
>Segal said he first looks at the frequency and volume of a meme being broadcast on various social media channels, especially Twitter. “Once extremists started using it, we added it to our database,” he added.
TOPKEK
Justin James
people build churches, mosks, and mosiliums and migrate by the millions at a time to pray to their diety.
these are simple people, that belive their god is real, of course they would belive that our little running gag is real.
after all, they voted hillary and belive she committed no crimes.
simple people
simple minds
Thomas Bennett
>Oren Segal is director of the Center on Extremism, a wing of the Anti-Defamation League. Segal maintains a database of over 200 memes which he says “put hate on display.” Pepe is one of those memes, but Segal is working closely with Matt Furey, the frog’s creator, in order to “reclaim” Pepe for less contentious causes.
>“I know him well,” Segal said, referring to Pepe. “Even in our database we mention that there are so many ways to use the symbol. A lot of good people use this frog. That’s the concept of a meme, it can be manipulated.”
>Segal said he first looks at the frequency and volume of a meme being broadcast on various social media channels, especially Twitter. “Once extremists started using it, we added it to our database,” he added.
>When I asked Segal if these groups were in fact extremist, he didn’t miss a beat.
>“Uh, yeah,” he said.
I HIGHLY recommend you go and read the entire article lads, this one is a gem
Brandon Turner
Working as intended.
Robert Brown
My digits says the author and Vice.com will be out of business before Trump's first term is done.
Julian Cooper
>“alt right”, a white nationalist group That projecting though.
Benjamin James
Some memes were created because some faggot posted a pictures and got quads or trips That's the power of kek m8
Justin Howard
Well, shit.
Jack Sanders
Praise Kek
Landon Turner
Obviously, it's not real, but they state how it works positively for our side. It's a dopamine high gambing on gets, and motivate us to spread pro trump memes
Grayson Davis
>Memes aren't just something that happens, memes are something that you make happen!
those are forced memes
Sebastian Mitchell
>According to this occult online army, Trump is set to be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States thanks to their viral efforts. >44th President >44th
Lefty reporting
Bentley Young
uh ohh
Jason Long
Well you better hope brexit meme magic saves your country from islam rape
Carter Brown
also this Ironically enough, Sup Forums is probably a thousand times more multicultural than whatever holier-than-thou little cliques these wannabe journalists circle in.
Charles Perez
Check these sick digits cunts
Luke Russell
RARE WATERCOLOUR OF THE PROPHET IN VINTAGE CANADIANA STYLE.
THIS IS FOR TRADE ONLY, DO NOT SAVE.
Jason Ramirez
KEK WILLS IT
Colton Barnes
Meme magic is going to go into overdrive when the Canadians arrest him and he goes on a hunger strike.
It's going to turn the entire West right.
Justin Fisher
So, is Sup Forums satire?
Cameron Hall
I wonder want an actual normie with no context into memes, Sup Forums or Magic would think if they saw this article. I can't even imagine they would take it seriously
and with all these MSN sources coming here as of late, we have to be doing something right lads praise kek
Jordan Nelson
Kek speaks- praise be His name!
Hunter Wright
HE HAS SPOKEN. KEK IS WITH US TODAY
Samuel Thompson
It's a reversal of the 80s and 90s. Back then, the conservatives were the humorless, morally rigid tight-asses who didn't understand the world they lived in. Today, it's the liberals.
Remember when D&D and hard rock was considered satanical? When action movies and video games were blamed for violent crime? What we're going thorugh today is the left-wing version of that.
Ian Miller
Be patient. /Pol is only starting. Sky is the limit
