Kekistan is a fictional country where the people or “Kekistanis” worship the aforementioned Kek. If there’s one thing that perfectly describes the online community of crypto traders and chatrooms, it’s Kekistan. Did you know?Īt the same auction, 500 passports to Kekistan were sold for 20,000 in PepeCash. Still, it didn’t stop this set from being sold as one of the most valuable Pepe sales of all time. These animated Pepes by the artist DaVinci9 were the subject of some controversy after the bidding ended, as users wondered if the lots were fixed or if the prices were purposely inflated. But a set of 20 rare Japanese Watercolor Pepes sold for $26,000 in 2018. This is not actually the price of a single Pepe, so this may be cheating a bit. How did it connect to Pepe, you may be wondering? In Greco-Roman art, Kek is depicted as a man with the head of a frog. During a World of Warcraft match, where the chat translates speech into cryptic text, the phrase “LOL” was rendered as “KEK.” Once someone pointed out that there was an Egyptian god named Kek, a bringer of chaos and destruction, the rest was inevitable. The name “Kek” began as an accident during a video game match online. A Lord Kek Pepe card has sold for $22,720, likely to someone who is very into the chaotic nonsense of the whole thing. He seems to be a god of chaos, which makes his actual tenants a little difficult to pin down. This dichotomy is never more pronounced than when Pepe takes the form of “ Lord Kek, Ruler of All Pepes” who represents a bizarre fantasy religion in the pop culture of virtual alt-right message boards. He has been seen wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap, which to the Right makes him a symbol of freedom and to the Left, a symbol of hate. As many of you may know, Pepe the Frog in recent years has been co-opted by alt-right Conservative groups as a sort of make-shift mascot.
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