Princeton University, year 2068 4 “This piece is noteworthy because we usually see Sad Pepe as а passive figure, reclining back from a long life of anguish. The artist's defies both aspects of the ico

Princeton University, year 2068
4
“This piece is noteworthy because we usually
see Sad Pepe as а passive figure, reclining
back from a long life of anguish. The artist's
defies both aspects of the iconography
and shows that Pepe, far from being depressed
and wishing to commit suicide, is actually
fighting as hard as he can to live. But he is
too weak to overcome his suffering. Instead
of depicting the frog as old and cynical, the
artist actually tells that Pepe is naive and
9 has never seen the world what it really is,
for all of his experiences have been as a child
inthe womb. Не wants to breathe the fresh
air of anormal life and grow up to be big
and strong, but he is physically incapable
Professor Edwin Gregory, of realizing his dreams. In a strange
PhD, Bernhard Wojack biological irony, Pepe is being strangled
Professor of Comparative Memeology {Не same umbyllical cord that gives him life.”
at Princeton University