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Historian Explains That Pepe The Frog Was Originally A Hindu Symbol (www.theonion.com)
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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

'Hey, you have to take that down. Don’t you know what that means?’ For me it was synonymous with a right-wing hate group. Thankfully, my friend noticed me staring at the frog, and he soon set me straight.” Stewardson went on to explain that, in Sanskrit, the word Pepe roughly translates to “Feels good, man.”