ZARA HAS PULLED A SKIRT FROM THEIR WEBSITE AFTER THEIR
CONSUMERS COMPLAINED THAT THE DESIGN LOOKS LIKE PEPE THE FROG.
A FREELANCE WRITER FROM CHICAGO ACTUALLY TWEETED OUT A
PICTURE OF THE SKIRT.
SHE SAYS THIS IS BAD ON HER TWITTER.
THAT'S WE TOOK OFF I SAW IS REALLY OUT THERE TRYING TO
SELL A, I LIKE THAT SHE START PEPE THE FROG SKIRT
APPARENTLY UNAWARE OF ITS CURRENT IMPLICATION.
IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE PEPE IMAGERY, I'M GOING TO
GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND.
PEPE ROSE TO PROMINENCE LAST YEAR APPEARING IN MEANS
ABOUT EIGHT OFF HITLER AND THE KU KLUX KLAN.
PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFIED AS MEMBERS OF WHITE NATIONALIST
ANOTHER FIREBREAK GROUPS ADDED THE GREEN FROG EMERGED TO
THEIR TWITTER HANDLE OR DISPLAY NAME.
MANY OF YOU WHO LIKE TO, MEAN THINGS TO ME THAT IN
SEPTEMBER, THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE SAID IT WAS FORMALLY
DECLARING PEPE THE FROG A HATE SYMBOL.
BASICALLY CZARS PUTTING THIS HATE SYMBOL ON THEIR SKIRTS AND
SOMETIMES, LIKE I SAID IN PREVIOUS STORIES ONLY TO GIVE
PEOPLE THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT EXCEPT THAT STAR HAD SOME
PREVIOUS INFRACTIONS.
2014, THEY ACTUALLY HAD TO PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE FOR
SELLING A SHIRT THAT LOOKED LIKE CONCENTRATION CAMP PRISONER
GARB ALSO IN 2007 IS STOP SELLING A PURSE THAT HAD
SWASTIKA SYMBOLS EMBROIDERED ON IT.
I DON'T KNOW.
SOMETIMES I THINK WITH CERTAIN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS YOU
CAN'T BE THAT OUT OF THE NOTE.
THEY CLAIM THAT IT IS FAST FASHION AND THERE IS NOT QUALITY
CONTROL BUT I THINK IT MIGHT BE A PUBLICITY STUNT SOMETIMES AND
THEY DO STUFF LIKE THIS ESPECIALLY IF IT'S OVER AND
OVER AGAIN.
IT REALLY IS INTERESTING.
IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME WE COVERED IT.
THE DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES HAVE DIFFERENT PATTERNS, RAY?
IN THE MUSINGS INDUSTRY APPARENTLY YOU ARE ALLOWED
TO BE TOTAL SCUM IF YOU ARE IN THERE.
I'M SORRY IF YOU ARE IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY BUT THE
EXECUTIVES HAVE NEW TORY'S HISTORY OF ABUSING WOMEN
AND BY THE WAY YOUNG BOYS AS WELL WHO ARE IN BOY BANDS, ETC.
NOT ONLY RIPPING THEM UP FINANCIALLY BUT GIANT CASES
OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT.
IT'S LIKE OH YEAH, IT'S THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
AND THE FASHION INDUSTRY THAT'S ONE SCANDAL AFTER ANOTHER.
OH, DID WE PUT A SWASTIKA ON IT?
LOOK AT ALL THE ATTENTION WE RECEIVED.
WE DID IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.
I'M BEGINNING TO THINK THAT IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE.
THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS IN THE INDUSTRY WHERE
THEY PUT SOMETHING REALLY HORRIBLE OUT THERE, HAVE PEOPLE
GET OUTRAGED, GET I GUESS THEY CONSIDER THE THREE ADVERTISING.
IT IS NOT GOING TO BRING BACK DENIM SKIRT, SORRY.
THERE OVER.
STUFF TRY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
THE GUY I FEEL BAD FOR IS NOT VERY IS THE GUY WHO DID
PEPE THE FROG IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I DIDN'T KNOW, IT WAS IN 05.
I THOUGHT MAYBE IT WAS FROM THE 1930S OR SOMETHING.
HE IS IN LA'S KOREATOWN AND HE IS LIKE OH MY GOD, WHAT DID
THEY DO.
THIS IS NOT THE INTENT.
THEY JUST KIDNAPPED HIS CHARACTER OR HIS CARTOON
CHARACTER AND HE SAYS THIS IS MY WORST NIGHTMARE.
THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT CASES OF THAT ESPECIALLY
RENOWNED THE MEDIA WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE GUY WHO
MADE THE BULL ON WALL STREET WITH THE FEARLESS GIRL.
HE SAID THIS IS NOT THE INTENT OF MY ARTWORK TO BE STAMPEDING
THIS LITTLE GIRL AND AGAINST WOMEN'S RIGHT.
REALLY UNFORTUNATE FOR A LOT OF ARTISTS WHO PUT THEIR ART OUT
THERE FOR PEOPLE TO ENJOY AND THEN IT SORT OF
COMMANDEERED, ESPECIALLY FOR THIS HATE GROUP IN
PARTICULAR BY THESE PEOPLE.
I KIND OF FEEL BAD FOR THEM.
IT'S UNFORTUNATE.
ALSO THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE IN THE MUSIC AND FASHION INDUSTRY
BUT YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GET BEYOND THESE HISTORICAL
ISSUES A GUESSING TO HAVE.