Editing Meme (section)

== Meme Magic ==

A term that originally gained popularity during the 2016 American Presidency race where [[/pol/]] claimed that due to the powers of Kek, an Egyptian frog deity, managed to get Donald Trump elected into becoming president of the United States of America. While this is a case of the internet, well, being the internet; the term "meme magic" was officially born after /pol/ and /b/, assumed that by shitposting as many pro-Trump and anti-Hillary memes on every place they could get to; this collectively contributed to Trump being elected through, well, the magic of memes. Don't wrap your head around it too much, and just have fun about the concept. It could he seen as a concept similar to the Orks' power of belief.

Meme magic has since referred to people shitposting memes about a certain topic, then said meme suddenly becoming a reality outside of their community. The biggest exemplar about this on /tg/ are the [[Squats]], who after 20 years of being thrown out of the proverbial airlock, drifting into obscurity, and relegated into /tg/'s version of candlejack: has since come back into the game...sort of. Right now they're just a in Necromunda, but who cares? SPESS DORFS WERE BROUGHT BACK FROM THE GRAVE THROUGH THE POWER OF MEMES. Hell, the list below also shows that meme magic works a good deal for /tg/.

Also notable is that Pepe was making the rounds in 2010-2011, or even earlier just as part of a general trend to take the piss out of [[Furry]] art, then as part of the Rage Faces memeosphere that rapidly consumed Reddit during that time (an early warning sign of the cancer to come), and died along with the rest of those memes by late 2012 when everyone had gotten sick of the putrid mess. That it returned in force by late-2014 is eyebrow-raising in and of itself, as most memes that die ''that hard'' stay dead forever. And then Pepe, a stoner frog from a furry fetish webcomic, became a satirical political symbol for the 'alt-right', and was decried as a "[[Heresy|hate symbol]]" by the [[Inquisition|ADL]]. Going full circle, noting that 'kek' (a perversion of 'lel' which is a perversion of the ubiquitous 'lol') was an actual thing that existed and it was an Egyptian God that weirdos on [[/r9k/]] developed a lot of [[Chaos|bizarre ideas about]]. Which in turn, frog and all, even showed up at IRL political events. Meme magic indeed... and then Pepe's creator took it upon himself to enforce a trademark and curtail the spread of political propaganda involving him. Seems that every spell runs its course eventually.