PepeW / PepeWeird

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O Anonymous 05/17/14(Sat)07:26:44 No.4901415 >>4901425 >>4901509 >>4901520 >>4902454 >>4907640 >>4908472 File: fregg jpg (23 KB, 446x362) >tfw i used to read in sunlight when i was younger. now i have cataracts. >tfw have to dictate my posts to my little brother. O Anonymous 05/17/14(Sat)14:02:29 No.4902454 >>4902474 >>4902650 >>4902673 >>4904173 >>4906512 >>4906519 >>4906538 >>4906586 >>4907640 >>4908472 >>4908487 >>4916432 >>4901415 >>4901520 "Can you repeat that back to me please"? "Yeah, that's it. Now attach a picture of a sad frog" "a-a sad frog"? "Just open the folder labeled frog and feels' " "W-wha.. what is this? There are hundreds of them. What are these for"? "Nevermind that. Just look for the one called 'fregg', that looks like it had a seizure and attach it." "Yes, that's perfect, you can send it now"

View Same Google igdb SauceNAO Trace a 1407665407743.jpg. 38KIB, 422x350 /tv/ Anonymous Fri 15 Aug 2014 05:37:55 No.47679987 View Report >>47679927 >Endo's turn >Frisks >"Haha Endo, you sure like Frisks TM" View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace a 1407865407743.jpg. 38KIB, 422x350 /tv/ Anonymous Mon 11 Aug 2014 01:29:58 No.47520427 View Report >>47520353 >Michael Bay >Good director View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace + pepe's inner pain is constant an (..).jpg. 38KIB, 422x350 /tv/ Anonymous Sun 10 Aug 2014 06:10:07 No.47489981 View Report View Same Gogle iqdb SauceNAO Trace a pepe's inner pain is constant an (..)jpg. 38KIB, 422x350 /tv/ Anonymous Sun 06 Jul 2014 21:35:22 No.46341052 Replies: 1 View Report >pilot episode includes a full-fledged sex scene

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About

PepeW or PepeWeird is an emote that is highly popular in Twitch chats, often said when something in the stream is highly unusual. The emote is notable for not being one that originated on the platform, instead coming from a 4chan post from 2015.

Origin

The first instance of the meme comes from the /tv/ board on 4chan, where it was uploaded by an anon^[5] on July 6th, 2014, in regards to a sex scene being featured in the first episode of a TV show pilot (shown below).

Two years later, on September 13th, 2015, an anon on 4Chan posted a Greentext Story in which a bait and switch occurs, with the story supposedly being about friends playing Dota with some girls but it ends up being a fake story with the punchline being the music video DOTA by Swedish musician Basshunter (shown below).

>> Anonymous 09/13/15(Sun)09:44:43 No.116020957 File: pepe inner pain.jpg (38 KB, 422x350) >>116020996 >>116021280 blog time >be me >be swecuck >me and my stack are all real life friends (known each other since primary school) >we're pretty good and will be playing in an upcoming major qualifier >usually we play at a local netcafe because the owner is a bro, has awesome computers and the atmosphere is great >last week owner leaves on vacation and netcafe is closed for a week >our captain suggests we LAN at his house (his family has a big house with one particular room that is great for LANS) >everyone agrees >later that day we all arrive and set up our rigs, get on Vent >one of my friends' gfs is there (she's a girl streamer mostly plays League and HS) with some of her friends >they want to watch our games, our captain has a thingy set up where they can spectate us on a separate monitor with DotaTV >whatever i was hoping for a bro night but i decide to reign in my burgers and not make a scene >anyway we start playing, the girls are actually into it and cheer when we make big plays >first two matches are EZ wins >in the middle of the third match >suddenly someone knocks on the door of the room >it's our friend's mom (she's always been a huge bitch) >we pause and turn to stare at her (the room is pitch black except for monitor glow and the light from the hallway is blinding) >she literally screams at my friend, "that's the only thing you do all day long, you sit in that Ventrilo and play dota!!" >few seconds of stunned silence >suddenly my friend (our captain) just calmly says "we're sitting here in ventrilo, playing some dota." >more silence >he repeats, "we're sitting here in ventrilo, playing some dota." >silence again >he repeats one last time and starts singing about dota >his mom looks confused as f---, just backs out of the room and closes the door >mfw i never knew my friend was such a weirdo

Spread

With the advent of Twitch culture, and emotes being used in chat a lot, PepeWeird was selected as an emote to get used in a lot of chats, with other streamers either creating their own version or having petitions on their subreddit to add the original Pepew. This original PepeW was added to the emotes section of the Twitch-accompanying site BetterTTV^[1] by CongoBongoBongo^[2] on November 19th, 2018 (shown below).

Over the years, various other versions of PepeW were made and uploaded to another Twitch Emote website, FrankerFaceZ^[3] having a Santa themed PepeW^[4] added to it on November 8th, 2020, which is currently used in 35 sets on Twitch, but sees much greater usage around the holiday times (shown below).