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posted ago by yp390 ago by yp390 +18 / -0

What is a pede? Is a pede those green guys? Is a pede a Trump supporter? Why are Trump supporters called pedes, and why do those green guys represent that?

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GregTheTraceur 8 points ago +8 / -0

Assuming question is in good faith and not troll. It's hard to tell with this crowd sometimes. Haha.

So, you're mixing up two terms. One is "Pede", short for centipede. It comes from a youtube series called You Can't Stump the Trump, which used audio from this video in the introduction. For the squeamish, there are spiders and centipedes. Here's one of the videos in question

The other term is "Pepe". He's the little frog dude. He's something of a mascot. IIRC, the artist who originally drew Pepe tried to say that he was dead or something and he's really angry we co-opted it as hard as we did. It's all lols to me.

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BabyPede 5 points ago +5 / -0

Also "Kek" is our form of Lol, and i believe it is from the WoW game where the other faction's chat is in a different "language" so you can't understand them.

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GregTheTraceur 3 points ago +3 / -0

If my understanding of memery is decent (and I think it is), 4chan started making fun of how often Redditors used "le" in stuff, and started saying lel. That eventually got bastardized, I assumed through a spelling mistake the first time, into kek.