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Feels Good Man
2020 · Film · documentary · 94 min
Directed by Arthur Jones
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness and navigate America's cultural divide.
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Like it or not, Pepe did get co-opted by a weird alt-right subculture, so while it later got reclaimed, for a while there was a good chance posting Pepe meant you were aligned with the alt-right or incel culture. There's an entire documentary on the artist behind it and what happened called "Feels Good Man" it's really quite good: https://www.feelsgoodmanfilm.com/
> The Oxygen of Amplification has three interlocking parts:
> Part 1 provides a historical overview of the relationship between the news media and far-right manipulators who leveraged trolling and meme culture during the 2016 US presidential election.
The film Feels Good Man (2020)[0] is a visually beautiful example of this. Unexpected psychedelic sleeper hit of the year.
[0] https://linktr.ee/feelsgoodmanfilm
> As for Pepe being a far-right meme. It never has been one.
Feels Good Man is exactly about this. ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11394182/ )
After seeing the documentary "feels good man" about pepe, I felt sorry for his creator.