Anonymous
ID: BfVxcPH8
7/24/2025, 11:57:34 AM No.60683721
>An easily missed feature of every Pepe is the pair of identifying lines below the left eye. It is highly improbable that these strips are mere compression artifacts as they have been stamped on every instance of the most common Pepe in the exact same manner, and there is seemingly no reason for a compression algorithm to do this; besides, the strips exist even on image formats that don't use compression. The strips are likely a steganographic technique to embed hidden data within every Pepe. It is unknown what data is embedded in the Pepes, but it is likely a means to track the spread and evolution of the wider Pepe meme.
>The steganography strips appear solely but uniformly on the most common Pepe variety on the internet, the 976x850. This is the variety featured at the top of this article. The 976x850 originates from a 2016 news article by the BBC, for which it owes its potency — such coverage by such a large news organization has made the image the first result for "pepe the frog" and the second result for "pepe" on Google images; the first result (the 780x438 "pepefroggie.jpg" from KYM) has the same strips also present in the BBC version; however, this variant is used much less frequently likely due to its uncomfortable rectangular proportions, especially when compared to the squarish British Broadcasting Corporation image which is much more suited for forum posts.
>The steganography strips appear solely but uniformly on the most common Pepe variety on the internet, the 976x850. This is the variety featured at the top of this article. The 976x850 originates from a 2016 news article by the BBC, for which it owes its potency — such coverage by such a large news organization has made the image the first result for "pepe the frog" and the second result for "pepe" on Google images; the first result (the 780x438 "pepefroggie.jpg" from KYM) has the same strips also present in the BBC version; however, this variant is used much less frequently likely due to its uncomfortable rectangular proportions, especially when compared to the squarish British Broadcasting Corporation image which is much more suited for forum posts.
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