Pepe the Frog began life as a relatable, early 20s slacker for the readers of Matt Furie’s mid-2000s comic series. Then, Pepe became one of the Internet’s best memes, a smiling frog face that ...

Pepe the Frog, that smiling green amphibian that's been co-opted by white nationalists and officially deemed a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), was never supposed to be a mascot of ...

There’s smiling blonde Trump Pepe. There’s Pepe as Super Mario. Pepe as the Pope on ... Rare Pepes are even purchased with a cryptocurrency named after the frog — Pepe Cash — a unit of ...

How did a cartoon frog become a symbol of the alt-right? According to Know Your Meme, Pepe originated in 2005 as part of the Boy's Club comics by artist Matt Furie, and originally gained ...

The story begins back in 2005 when Furie, an amiable San Francisco-based artist, decides to draw, rather crudely, a frog character for his comic series "Boy's Club." ...

A smiling green man-frog doesn’t initially come off as sinister, and the origins of Pepe the Frog were pretty innocuous. But back in May, Olivia Nuzzi explained how this cartoon image had been ...

In 2016, the Anti-Defamation League added Pepe the Frog to its list of hate symbols, though the organization notes many uses of this meme are still not rooted in bigotry or hate. "The number of ...

Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie is taking new legal action against the “alt-right” for using illustrations of his cartoon, the amphibian character that has become an iconic meme of the far-right.

A woman wears a mask of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon figure appropriated by far-right groups, as she stands next to a woman holding a US flag and a "Trump 2020" hat, Thursday, May 14, 2020, during a ...

Because of Pepe the Frog. For some people, what I’m about to say is old news and obvious. But for many, perhaps most, it’s important to have the whole context laid out.

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.