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The darker corners of the Internet turned a cartoon frog into a hate symbol. Here's how the Internet can take it back.
So when she denounced Pepe the frog as a symbol of hatred, the internet practically drowned in laughter. But this was the general public's first proper introduction to Pepe, and first impressions ...
Pepe is headed to court. Rather, his creator, Matt Furie, is. Furie, who debuted Pepe the Frog in 2005 in his comic “Boy’s Club,” has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the far ...
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.
Pepe the Frog has been killed off by its creator. Pepe the Frog has been killed off by its creator. Newsweek Think of "hate symbols" and a few icons come to mind: swastikas, burning crosses and ...
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 ...
CAN MATT FURIE return his comic frog to a happy place? His character Pepe has gone from slacker to meme to unwilling hate symbol — and now Furie is trying to reclaim him. Furie created Pepe the ...
Pepe, a coin inspired by an anthropomorphized frog popular in internet memes, leapt nearly 7,000% in the 17 days after its April 16 launch, hitting a market value of $1.8 billion by May 5 ...
President Donald Trump posted a picture on Truth Social that contains Pepe the Frog, sometimes used as a hate symbol, and uses a QAnon tagline.
Explore the origins of Pepe the Frog and the viral Pepe memes that have taken over the internet. Dive into the story behind Pepe the Frog and why this meme remains an iconic symbol online.