PUNK IS NOT DEAD

From 1969 to web3: the pop-culture story behind every Friggy PEP trait.

Punk pop-culture timeline, 1969 to 2026

1969

The Stooges

A wild iguana screams out of Detroit. Proto-punk is born.

Iggy Pop is the Godfather of punk.
Friggy PEP is the Degen Codefather.

Friggy PEP on stage, gripping the mic stand
Iggy Pop live
Shirtless Friggy PEP with the Iggy Pep Haircut
Iggy Pep Haircuttrait · 69 pieces

1972

Ultraviolence + Glam

One eyelash, one bowler hat, one Ludwig van. Cinema gets a little bit horrorshow.

Meanwhile in New York, the Dolls stomp the stage in platform boots, lipstick and torn satin. Glam meets ultraviolence: proto-punk puts on its make-up.

Friggy PEP in white with bowler hat and cane, in front of a Bitcoin alarm clock
Clockwork Orange Eyebrow72 pieces
New York Dolls album cover
Friggy PEP in a white shirt with Pyramid-Studs suspenders, Clockwork Orange Eyebrow and mohawk
Droog lookwhite shirt · Pyramid-Studs

1976

Punk blows up

London, '76. Four kids swear live on teatime TV and wake up public enemy number one. Punk explodes.

Mohawks and spiked crests scare the whole country.

New York, a taxi driver asks: you talking to me?

Friggy PEP in a ripped yellow Cex Pistols tee in front of a vertical Union Jack
Cex Pistols tees · 77 piecesTravis jacket "You talking to me?" · 76 piecesFriguana Crest · 77 pieces
Taxi Driver, 1976Friggy PEP in a Travis jacket in front of a yellow cab: 2026, 50th birthday

1977

Birth of a legend

One, two, three, four…

First album in '76, then two more in '77: Leave Home and Rocket to Russia. The year the Ramones blow up. Before the crests and the safety pins, they were the forefathers of punk.

Ragmoneys: four Friggy brothers against a brick wall
Ragmoneys tee · 77 piecesPerfecto Badges · 89 piecesBlitzgrip Haircut · 76 pieces
Friggy PEP as a Ragmoney: Hey Ho, Let's Go!

1979

Rock 'n' roll high school

Blow up the school, put on the varsity jacket. Punk goes to the movies, and Mad Max hits the road.

Meanwhile, ska crashes the party: Jamaican offbeats, checkerboard pants and punk energy on the same dancefloor. Keep the faith.

And metal plugs in: the New Wave of British Heavy Metal steals punk's raw speed and turns it up to eleven.

Ska Friggy PEP in the Rock n Roll High School jacket and checkerboard pants
Rock 'n' Roll High School jacket79 pieces
Fomoshead logoNorthern Soul, Keep the Faith badgeMad Max, 1979

1984

After the end of the world

A fist of the north star, a road warrior. The apocalypse wears studded leather, and even the Terminator steals his clothes from a gang of punks.

Billy Idol, a kid from the first punk wave of the '70s, now owns the screen: the '80s are his.

Friggy PEP as a post-apocalyptic punk hero, with the Seven Stars
Mad Max / Hokuto jacket · 85 piecesPunk Ice Blue crest · 130 piecesSeven Stars · only 7 pieces
Fist of the North Star, Hokuto no Ken logoThe Terminator, 1984
Billy Idol

1989

Bleach

A blond kid from Aberdeen records a dirty little album for 600 dollars. Grunge is the new punk.

In the arcades, Final Fight drops the Mad Gear gang: mohawks, leather and Poison. Punks become 16-bit bosses.

Friggy PEP with the blond Bleach Haircut playing an electric guitar
Bleach Haircut89 pieces
Kurt CobainFinal Fight, 1989Red Hot Chili Peppers asterisk, Mother's Milk 1989
Friggy PEP with the blond Bleach Haircut and a cigarette

1988 · 1999

Cyberpunk

Neo-Tokyo explodes, the ghost hides in the shell, the red pill wakes you up. The future is punk.

AkiraGhost in the Shell
Friggy PEP in a long black coat and night-vision goggles
Ghost in the ShellAkira

Pop

Punk everywhere

Robots in helmets, a joker's girl, invaders from space and a spiky koopa king. Punk leaks into every screen, all the way into pixel art.

Friggy PEP is a tribute to the history of punk and its impact on pop culture.

Pixel art Friggy PEP with long hair, heart eyes and a studded leather jacket
Daft PunkSpace Invaders
Harley QuinnBowser

1993

Cypherpunks write code

"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age." Rebels swap guitars for cryptography.

The punks start writing code. Mailing lists, PGP, encrypted messages: numbers become the new noise, math the new weapon.

Friggy PEP offering a blue pill and an orange pill in front of falling green music notes
CypherpunksFriggy PEP #1712 with the orange pill on its tongue

2008

Bitcoin

A whitepaper signed by a ghost. No bank, no king, no permission. Trustless by design.

October 31: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System lands on the cypherpunks' cryptography mailing list. Satoshi vanishes, the punk ethic stays: don't trust, verify.

Hooded Friggy PEP typing on a Bitcoin laptop
Satoshi punkSatoshi Nakamoto trading card
Friggy PEP #48, Legendary, Pirate Eye Bitcoin Gold
Pirate Eye Bitcoin Gold1 of 1 · Legendary #48

2017

Memes & punks

Pop culture goes online and becomes meme culture: remixed, shared, owned by everyone.

Wizards print magic internet money, wojaks get a mohawk, pixel punks get a price. Web3 inherits the DIY spirit.

CryptoPunkPunk wojakNyan CatMagic Internet Money wizard

2026

Friggy PEP

1976 digital artifUkts. Every number tells a year, every trait tells a story. 100% punk.

PUNK IS NOT DEAD

Friggy PEP spells F-R-I-G-G-Y P-E-P with his body