The fifth and final note for the Deplorables series features a portrait of Jack Dorsey, founder and CEO of Twitter. While Dorsey has publicly endorsed crypoturrency, the choice to feature him was more a self-reflexive gesture, as the dissemination of our Deplorables’ views – and the series itself – is facilitated and given a platform by Twitter. Thus, he has been honored as a Deplorable!

Republica de los Deplorables is a fictional country; an alternate underworld where secrets are revealed and chaos thrives. The notes heavily draw on the symbolism of the frog, associated mythology, and the frog’s incarnation as Pepe. The frog, and Pepe, are symbols of chaos, change, the underworld, and the revelation of secrets.

The Venezuelan Bolivar was used as a template for the design, both as a reference to Venezuela’s intention to launch its own cryptocurrency, and as a way to reinforce the idea of a jurisdiction in disintegration.