>>41947457That's kind of a chicken-or-egg argument. Just like how 4chan got the "ok" hand gesture to be recognized as a white nationalist symbol because the media were stupid enough to buy it, then the actual white nationalists adopted it after that.
The Pepe thing is the same shit. Media declared it hate, ADL declared it hate, so haters adopted it. Some had it before, but that's because Pepe was just a big popular fucking meme for everybody once.