Meaning of Rare Pepe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An unusual image of the Pepe the Frog character.
   Internet
2. Alternative letter-case form of Rare Pepe.
   alt-of

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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”

“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).”

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