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This is so bizarre. I was looking for white noise sounds on youtube to help me (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 OP
It's just a popular meme that the bigots co-opted. nt RandiFan1290 Jul 2022 #1
I would say that it shows they can't come up with their own original work, but, the conservative Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 #12
There are so many lofi, ambient streams on YouTube blogslug Jul 2022 #2
Thanks for the information. Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 #9
If it's so widely recognized as possibly a RW meme.. denbot Jul 2022 #3
Because I wasn't sure, I was surprised to find it, and because at four o'clock in the Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 #8
Try listening to Bob Ross painting videos on YT zonemaster Jul 2022 #4
Must try! Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 #6
Too funny! bif Jul 2022 #14
I hope you're not seeing this comment True Dough Jul 2022 #5
I slept a solid four hours and slept five more after that, so I did good last night. Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 #7
This one is fantastic! AntivaxHunters Jul 2022 #10
That one paired with my autumn crickets video would definitely get me Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 #11
Try this. Great sound generator. All kinds of sounds for every mood and need. Hotler Jul 2022 #15
I'm going to have so much fun with Cafe Restaurant! Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 #16
It's possible it's there to refer to the original artist's intention muriel_volestrangler Jul 2022 #17
Hard to imagine chillaxin has anything to do with the kind of aggressiveness behavior Baitball Blogger Jul 2022 #18
I read a creepy article about Trump supporters believing that frog has magical powers that got Trump liberal_mama Jul 2022 #19
The creator of Pepe was so upset at magats use of it, he killed Pepe off... Ohio Joe Jul 2022 #20
Here's one I like ornotna Jul 2022 #21

Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
12. I would say that it shows they can't come up with their own original work, but, the conservative
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 10:52 AM
Jul 2022

Supremes shot that idea down.

blogslug

(38,002 posts)
2. There are so many lofi, ambient streams on YouTube
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 06:05 AM
Jul 2022

Just pass that one by and if that shows up in suggested feeds, hover over it and click the 3 little dots and choose "don't suggest this channel".

denbot

(9,900 posts)
3. If it's so widely recognized as possibly a RW meme..
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 06:17 AM
Jul 2022

Why bing it here at all, it's not as if the internet isn't packed with RW trash stem to stern?

Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
8. Because I wasn't sure, I was surprised to find it, and because at four o'clock in the
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 10:48 AM
Jul 2022

morning I'm not the sharpest bedbug on the sheets.

zonemaster

(232 posts)
4. Try listening to Bob Ross painting videos on YT
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 06:19 AM
Jul 2022

Many times, I don't make it through him listing the colors on his palette at the beginning of each vid before I'm asleep. They don't call the man "The Human Qaalude" for nothin'.

True Dough

(17,305 posts)
5. I hope you're not seeing this comment
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 06:32 AM
Jul 2022

until you've had several hours of restful sleep. But it's 4:32 a.m. my time as I write this and I could use a few more hours myself. We shall see...

Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
7. I slept a solid four hours and slept five more after that, so I did good last night.
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 10:47 AM
Jul 2022

I overlap youtube sounds to make my own mix of noises. This is what got me back to sleep last night:

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Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
13. That one paired with my autumn crickets video would definitely get me
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 10:54 AM
Jul 2022

closer to nature and calm me into sleep. Perfect!

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Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
16. I'm going to have so much fun with Cafe Restaurant!
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 11:35 AM
Jul 2022

I sometimes like that background noise, but I've exhausted all the youtube options.

Thank you!

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
17. It's possible it's there to refer to the original artist's intention
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 12:33 PM
Jul 2022
Furie created Pepe the Frog about a decade ago in his psychedelic comic “Boy’s Club,” which depicted the character as a chill, “feels good, man” amphibian — before Pepe was launched into a second life as a meme-friendly image. Furie was like the kind owner who was happy to let others play with his pet — until this bizarre election cycle, when Pepe was cast squarely into the Trump and Clinton showdown after the frog was co-opted on 4chan and soon swimming in a cesspool of swastikas and white-supremacist symbols.
...
So what should Pepe ultimately represent?

“Chillaxin’,” Furie says.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/10/26/pepe-the-frogs-creator-wants-him-to-be-a-symbol-of-chillaxing-again/

Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
18. Hard to imagine chillaxin has anything to do with the kind of aggressiveness behavior
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 12:36 PM
Jul 2022

that we've come to know from the Right.

liberal_mama

(1,495 posts)
19. I read a creepy article about Trump supporters believing that frog has magical powers that got Trump
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 12:48 PM
Jul 2022

elected. Ever since I read that article, I have been really creeped out by the sight of the frog.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pgkx7g/trumps-occult-online-supporters-believe-pepe-meme-magic-got-him-elected

Ohio Joe

(21,758 posts)
20. The creator of Pepe was so upset at magats use of it, he killed Pepe off...
Fri Jul 1, 2022, 12:50 PM
Jul 2022

Pepe's creator Matt Furie over the weekend depicted the frog in a coffin, mourned by other members of his Boy's Club cartoon strip.

Furie recently complained that "a chilled frog" had become a hate symbol.

Pepe has recently been depicted as Adolf Hitler and as a member of the US white supremacist Ku Klux Klan group.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39843468

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