Pepe the protest frog? Hong Kong kids aren't alt-right

rapplerdotcom 2019-10-05

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He may have become a far-right internet meme in the West, but Pepe the Frog's image is being rehabilitated in Hong Kong where democracy protesters have embraced him as an irreverent symbol of their resistance.
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