![]() On August 13th, 2015, an ad titled "Seeking Rare Pepe Trader – Third Roomate" was created on the Chicago Craigslist board. Additionally, ads for Rare Pepe collections were created on Craigslist. In the coming months, additional postings selling Rare Pepes were postings on eBay, with over 230 active listings as of September 2015. On May 18th, YouTuber ayy caramba uploaded a clip from an Israeli television show with fake subtitles discussing a Rare Pepe economic crash (shown below). On May 11th, BuzzFeed published an article about Rare Pepes online. On April 12th, The Daily Dot published an article about the origins of the Rare Pepe meme. By April 9th, there were over 230 “rare Pepe” listings on eBay. The same day, YouTuber mustard uploaded a video titled "1,200 Rare Pepe Memes for Sale," featuring a slideshow of Rare Pepe images (shown below).Īlso on August 3rd, Redditor QuahogBay submitted a post asking for an explanation of the Rare Pepe phenomenon to the /r/OutOfTheLoop subreddit, garnering upwards of 1,200 votes (92% upvoted) and 200 comments in five months. On April 3rd, the Internet humor site Smosh published an article about the rare Pepe images. On April 1st, the /r/rarepepemarket subreddit was launched for discussions about the images. In early April, the collection of Pepe images were listed on eBay, where it reached a price of $99,166 before being removed from the site (shown below). In the first week, the gallery received more than 260,000 views. ![]() On March 31st, a post was submitted to /r9k/ highlighting an Imgur gallery with over 1,200 pictures of Pepe. On March 28th, 2015, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a thread to the /r9k/ board, which confessed to stockpiling “rare Pepe” images in order to “flood the market” and depreciate their value (shown below).
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