He is the central figure in a new and spectacularly impenetrable meme ... a treasure trove of goofy, lovable, and inexplicable clip-art animations. Which leads us to the frog on the unicycle ...

It's since become a popular meme. (Matt Furie ... MF: Pepe, as I made him, is just kind of a goofy, hippie frog guy. He likes drinking soda, watching TV, talking on his cell phone.

That's Pepe the Frog, a popular meme on social media ... "online hate symbol" by the Anti-Defamation League. How could a goofy-looking cartoon character be considered a symbol of anti-semitism?

When Furie first drew Pepe the Frog, a cartoon that’s become one of the most recognizable and controversial memes in the world ... Pepe was his goofy cartoon, drawn mostly for a small circle ...

If you’re a Very Online American but not alt-right, finding a Pepe the Frog meme in a comment section feels like finding a KKK hood in the back of someone’s closet. It’s objectively goofy ...

He’s always drawn frogs: goofy frogs ... influential memes, and politically charged controversies—used the so-called “Sad Frog” to show anguish, dissatisfaction, and anger.

The Goofy Ahh meme is a common form of spam comment on TikTok associated with a genre of online videos that use odd or silly sound effects and is a variation of the phrase “goofy ass.” ...

Pepe the Frog, as the creature is called, did not begin its life as a racist meme. (One image sent to me that fine afternoon had him laughing at piles of dead bodies at a Nazi crematorium.) ...

Even the meme's original artist wants Pepe's dark new twist to end. In mid-October, he helped launch an effort to #SavePepe and retransform his frog into the goofy amphibian it once was.