Bored Ape Yacht Club, specifically ... as an outgrowth of the use of [the term] 'ape' and ape-imagery in the meme stock mania that was still ongoing at the time and had very strong overlaps ...

Bored Ape Yacht Club founder Wylie Aronow announced ... The Japanese headbands, he said, were an honest mistake and not a reference to a Pepe meme. The Prussian helmet is used by countries around ...