rare pepe

plural rare pepes

1. Alternative letter-case form of Rare Pepe.

   In Ten Years, You'll Find Me... […] Analyzing rare pepes

   2016, The Argo, Boston, Mass.: Boston Latin School, page 32, column 1

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   I, Hope Prendiville, of creative mind and meh body, will my rare pepes to the meme team.

   2015 May 29, “Wills”, in The Arrow, Westlake Village, Calif., page 11, column 1

   If you ever catch a glimpse of this rare pepe, you will meme dank for eternity.

   2016 March 28, Hannah Hunt, “Teen of the Week”, in The Tilghman Bell, volume 92, number 8, Pacudah, Ky.: Paducah Tilghman High School, page 5

   Paid chattering class content creators have written about and continue to write about our memes like cuckservative, echo brackets, and rare pepes. (Murray 2016b)

   2016, Mark Littler, Benjamin Lee, editors, Digital Extremisms: Readings in Violence, Radicalisation and Extremism in the Online Space, Palgrave Macmillan, published 2020, →ISBN, page 99

   In 2016, people began using Counterparty to issue ‘rare pepes’ – a type of internet meme that centres around a green frog and has a cult following. When Ethereum gained popularity in 2017, these rare pepe memes were sold there and even led to the creation of a “decentralised meme marketplace” called Peperium where they could be bought and sold

   2022 March, “Timeline: From Coloured Coins to the NFT Revolution”, in FinTech, page 16

   This means people spending Bitcoin could have higher fees and long confirmation times on-chain, as they compete with transactions which include large amounts of non financial data like rare pepes (in the case of Counterparty), DNS info (in the case of BitDNS, which later became Namecoin), or in the most recent iteration, Inscription content data (in the case of Ordinals).

   2023 February 3, “Ordinals & Inscriptions: Satoshi-based NFTs on Bitcoin”, in Bitfinex, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2023

plural Rare Pepes · alternative rare Pepe · alternative rare pepe

1. Internet4chan slangAn unusual image of the Pepe the Frog character.

   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.

   2018 January 7, Jessica Klein, “The world of cryptocollectibles like CryptoKitties looks like the internet's early days”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 16 May 2023

plural rare Pepes

1. Alternative letter-case form of Rare Pepe.

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

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

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   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.

   2015 July 28, Sean T. Collins, “The Creator of Pepe the Frog Talks About Making Comics in the Post-Meme World”, in Vice, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020

   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.

   2018 January 7, Jessica Klein, “The world of cryptocollectibles like CryptoKitties looks like the internet's early days”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 16 May 2023

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

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

   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.

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

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

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