The Pepe the Frog Image-Meme in Hong Kong: Visual Recurrences and Gender Fluidity on the LIHKG Forum

This paper examines how Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character originally created by American cartoonist Matt Furie, and currently a global digital image-meme of online activism, was adopted and adapted in Hong Kong during the 2019 Anti- Extradition Bill and Law Movement (反對逃犯條例修訂運動; faan deoi tou faan...

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Main Authors: Katrien Jacobs, Degel Cheung, Vasileios Maltezos, Cecilia Wong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: DIGSUM 2023-02-01
Series:Journal of Digital Social Research
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Online Access:https://publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article/view/24214
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