Conke

About

Conke is an intentional misspelling of the soft drink Coca-Cola, which is often depicted in surreal memes as the antithesis of the Pepsi misspelling "Bepis".

Origin

On September 12th, 2016, the "Extremely hihg quality photoshops" Facebook^[6] page posted a photo of a man in a cowboy hat holding a case of Coca-Cola with the caption "thamks veru much friemd daniel for buyign me conke :^)" (shown below).

Spread

On February 22nd, 2017, the Babbe Facebook^[7][8] page posted two surreal memes of a disembodied head drinking a bottle of Coca-Cola named "Conke" and mixing a photoshopped bottle of "Conke" and "Bepis" together in a plastic cup (shown below). Over the next year, the post garnered upwards of 1,000 shares, 840 reactions and 280 comments.

On March 22nd, Redditor nifeman20 submitted an image featuring the floating head identifying a Coca-Cola can as "Conke" and a Pepsi can as "Bepis," claiming the two drinks were the "only two genders" to /r/Ooer^[5] (shown below). Two days later, Redditor picquant reposted the image to /r/dankmemes,^[6] where it received more than 1,600 points (96% upvoted) and 50 comments prior to being archived.

On August 19th, YouTuber TheInternetLegend _420 uploaded a video titled ''Conke and Bepis are the same thing! Wake up sheeple!'' (shown below, left). On November 5th, YouTuber Bob the Bromosapien uploaded a "Pen Pineapple Apple Pen" remix video featuring Conke and Bepis (shown below, right).

On December 6th, Urban Dictionary^[9] user SmallDickAsian submitted an entry for "conke," defining it as "The arch enemy of the well known BEPIS" (shown below).

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