I wanted to make this post because of our recent discussion this week on Alt-Right to Fortnite. It was brought up during the discussion that Pepe the Frog was a symbol from the Alt-Right movement. This is true of its past and I am sure that there are individuals that still view this to be true and use it in a malicious way, but more than often you will see Pepe in a twitch streamers chat or streams. BEcause Pepe has been turned into a popular twitch emote the younger generation is exposed to it on a daily basis through Twitch without the rhetoric of the Alt-Right. The frog is viewed more as a “cute” mascot for twitch, having nearly infinite iterations. Some iterations are animated and some are just Pepe. Some examples include PepePls, MonkaS, Pepega and Pepehands. These are all off of the website BetterTTV which is a plugin most twitch streamers use to add more emotes to there chat. Each of these emotes have their own meanings from simply dancing to music (PepePls) to an emote to be spammed when something producing anxiety or concern happens (MonkaS). The emotes often mirror twitch’s base emotes in one way or another. It is interesting to see the large developments of this small frog from Alt-Right Icon to Twitch Super Star.