rare Pepe

See also: Rare Pepe and rare pepe

English

Noun

rare Pepe (plural rare Pepes)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Rare Pepe.
   • 2015 July 28, Sean T. Collins, “The Creator of Pepe the Frog Talks About Making Comics in the Post-Meme World”, in Vice‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 November 2020:

     Over time, as people redrew Pepe to look sad or smug and attached his face to literally thousands of different scenarios, the character left the catchphrase behind and achieved LOLcat levels of ubiquity, while the self-parodying search for "rare Pepes" invited ever more bizarre modifications of the meme.

   • 2018 January 7, Jessica Klein, “The world of cryptocollectibles like CryptoKitties looks like the internet's early days”, in Salon.com‎^[2], archived from the original on 2023-05-16:

     In yet another example of the internet folding in on itself, you can buy and sell "rare Pepes" using PepeCash, a cryptocurrency that ultimately relies on the Bitcoin blockchain.

   • 2019, Richard Rogers, Doing Digital Methods, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

     Originating from the /pol/ (politically incorrect) board on 4Chan, there are collections being made of ‘rare Pepes’; […]

   • 2019, Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office, All Points Books, →ISBN:

     And eventually, alt-coin PepeCash would power art auctions of rare Pepes using blockchain.

   • 2022, Priya Dixit, Race, Popular Culture, and Far-right Extremism in the United States (Global Political Sociology), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 153:

     The evolution of the meme itself is a fascinating study in internet usage and social media practices, with users trying to reduce the value of Pepe images while also selling “rare” Pepes at auction.

   • 2023, Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows, Mulholland Books, →ISBN:

     Mae pitches in wiping Brad’s online presence. She finds some old website he built. Deep-fried memes, old fashwave beats, rare Pepes.