Wojak originated on 4chan in the 2010s as a simple reaction image before being associated alongside pepe as a foil, the pepe was often a self insert and the wojak was a strawman. However the memes changed and eventually wojak outgrew pepe in popularity and memes started to focus exclusively on wojak. Wojak as a character is not cool, is not a self insert, and is often used to mock a group of people by portraying them as cringe. Wojak is the perfect strawman to internet fascists because it’s emotionless, it’s white, and it’s weak. Marginalized groups like gays and vegans and leftists are often portrayed as wojak because the fascists need to make strawmen because if there isn’t an enemy the whole ideology falls apart. That’s not to say the left hasn’t been using wojak in a constructive manner, but it’s merely appropriation. Wojak had always been reactionary while pepe was only adopted by the right, wojak was born by it. Now I’m asking you to read a rage comic, or several. Compare how much racism and sexism and reactionary politics you find those outdated memes then look at some wojaks. The best way you can learn how bad wojak as a meme is by looking at it from a critical lens. also literal nazis made a cartoon series with wojaks
Wojak was feels guy. He’s not really different from pepe. They both had a life before 2016 and/or gamergate. Wojak was about tfw mood. There was a brief meme about what feels guy’s name was and that’s when Wojak happened. The smirking pepe vs soyjack shit came much later.
If this is copy pasta I’m sorry I don’t recognize it as such.
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you guys are all new to the internet aren’t you
wojak originated on krautchan around 2009 and had nothing to do with race (tho ofc the chan is racist)
the origin comes from a literal person named Wojak, a scrawny depressed Polish kid with no gf (yea I know it’s redundant, not sorry Poles). To describe his feels, he made the meme of “that feel when no gf”, with the bald-headed white cartoon we all know and love.
wojak was entirely associated with depression, "forever alone"ism, and generally tame stuff.
unrelated: “based” came from basedgod, a Black rapper who first used it in his 2010 underground music videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq-jPa2-gdE). Check the entries on urban dictionary: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based , anything before 2013 is the original stuff, and white chuds are downvoting the oldest entries as we speak (censoring history proves to be a very white thing once again)
the right doesn’t have many original memes, because creativity is inherently an apolitical/leftist thing
I will never stop posting wojak and pepe and based, and yea I’ll even use their original memes too because fuck them
pretty good, but the top one is missing FSJAL. probably a shitton of others too
Oh yea, it’s also missing the Yao Ming face: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bb/29/e0/bb29e0cfe9ccf519955a66a6aba6f7e3.png
also dolan, if you consider that in the same format
