Instead, he refers to the newer frog meme coin as a "cousin of Pepe," saying it's "arguably as culturally significant and ubiquitous as Pepe itself." The Apu token has over 16,000 followers on X ...

Pepe the Frog, and his creator Matt Furie, were once both “chill” about how the Internet turned the cartoon slacker into a meme. Even as white nationalists and trolls started to adopt the Pepe ...

LAST MONTH, in a strip he created for Free Comic Book Day, Matt Furie had his characters mourn a memed-to-death friend, Pepe the Frog, as the cartoonist buried his chillaxin’ amphibian.

Noting that Pepe “began his life as a blissfully stoned frog in my comic book Boy’s Club, where he enjoyed a simple life of snacks, soda and pulling his pants all the way down to go pee ...

Pepe the Frog, whose likeness became a troll meme, has croaked at the age of 12. His spirit may live on in bigoted corners of the internet, but creator Matt Furie confirmed the frog’s death S… ...

Pepe the Frog, the meme that was transformed from a “once peaceful frog dude” into a symbol of hatred and racism by the far-right, has croaked. IE 11 is not supported.

When Matt Furie created his cartoon Pepe the Frog, he never imagined the laid-back amphibian might one day be considered a hate symbol. But that's what the Anti-Defamation League says the comic ...

The ADL notes that Pepe the Frog's use as a hate symbol depends on context. Trump's post included a phrase associated with QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory movement.

Pepe started his life as a laid-back cartoon frog but memes transformed him into an alt-right villain. The evolution of this cultural phenomenon is emblematic of the relationship between online ...