The Cult of Kek v. The Van Kush Family

In June of 2017 the operator of this chain wrote a sentence on another blockchain, in a post about Egyptian knowledge, and the sentence is still there with a timestamp on it: "You may also remember Pepe the frog from the 2016 Election Cycle, Pepe is actually Kek, and the modern cult of Kek are the ones who spread the Pepe Meme." Three lines above it, in the same post, he wrote that the frog goddess is Heqet. He was nine years early. Everything written about the Cult of Kek by the people who study such things came afterwards — the media scholarship in 2018, the diffusion measurements in late 2018, the religious-studies treatment in 2020, the museum essay in 2021. He was not reading them. He was writing while it happened, and he got the frog right before any of them printed a word. That is the position this chain is written from, and it is not a modest one. We are the other option Kek is part of this ecosystem and the operator has dealt with people across it directly. He is not judging something he does not understand, and he has said so: you can build a conglomerate the way the Cult of Kek built one. The frog is in our own reward tags. … Read the full post on melek.salon: https://melek.salon/history/@hathor/the-cult-of-kek-v-the-van-kush-family