Denizens of the darker corners of the Internet turned an innocent frog comic into a hate symbol of the "deplorable" alt-right. "Pepe the Frog" first appeared in 2005 in the comic "Boy's Life" by ...

The comic centered around crude bodily humor, pot smoking, and psychedelics. ... So when she denounced Pepe the frog as a symbol of hatred, the internet practically drowned in laughter.

Pepe the frog, the once-innocent cartoon that was appropriated as a mascot of the alt-right, is at the center of a new legal battle. Matt Furie, the character’s creator, is suing Infowars, the ...

Pepe the Frog is one of the most popular memes ever. It began in a non-political comic about four friends, but in 2016 extremists made it a hate icon.

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 ...

The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol.

How Pepe the Frog Was Born a Meme, Survived the Alt-Right, and Became a $4M NFT Popular Amphibian Has Come Home to Web3 After a Wild Journey Mason Marcobello Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 5:48 AM 6 min read ...

If you’ve wondered how a friendly cartoon frog suddenly became a white supremacist symbol, here is a quick explainer. The friendly amphibian started off as as a comic drawing by Matt Furie ...