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Pepe frog issues are new to you northerns, but over here there's a song from 1988 called "el sapo pepe", and in recent years a legal battle has sparked over that song and the character.
Thursday, 29-Sep-16 03:53:43 UTC from web-
@nerthos This is the "Feels good man" frog, right? This is seriously happening?
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@scribus No, I think this showed up over here as a children's character a bit earlier than sad frog's popularity http://xn--manualidadesparacumpleaos-voc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Como-hacer-centro-de-mesa-de-Sapo-Pepe-2.jpg but I always found it funny how frogs and toads gravitate towards the name "pepe" even if separated by geographical and cultural boundaries, and reach both fame and controversy.
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@nerthos That alone is weird enough.
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@scribus The song was quickly forgotten until someone designed the character and attached the song to it, but after it became hugely popular, the original author sent lawyers to cancel a show by the person that had resurrected it, to steal it back in a sense and profit from it. You know, the usual reason why copyright is a bad thing.
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